SOURCE: REDIFF On the morning of February 26,2014, Admiral Devendra Kumar Joshi was in his Rajaji Road bungalow scanning the morning newspapers when he got first word — signal, in navy parlance — of an accident on board the submarine, Sindhuratna, while it was being put through trials in the Arabian Sea. It was the […]
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SOURCE: AIR FORCE TIMES The F-35 Lightning II is so stealthy, pilots are facing an unusual challenge. They’re having difficulty participating in some types of training exercises, a squadron commander told reporters Wednesday. During a recent exercise at Mountain Home Air Force Base, Idaho, F-35 squadrons wanted to practice evading surface-to-air threats. There was just […]
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SOURCE: IANS The delay in delivering an indigenous aircraft carrier (IAC) will adversely impact the Indian Navy, with one of its two carriers in the process of being decommissioned, the government auditor has pointed out. The Comptroller and Auditor General, in a report tabled in Parliament this week, also pointed out that there was “continuing […]
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SOURCE: Lt Gen Kamal Davar (retd) / TRIBUNE INDIA THE Government of India has announced that Home Minister Rajnath Singh would visit Islamabad on August 3-4, to participate in the SAARC Home/Interior Ministers’ Conference. This would certainly have surprised the hosts, Pakistan, besides many geopolitical analysts in India and abroad. Though it might be a […]
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SOURCE: INDIA TODAY amaat-e-Islami (JI) has convened the All Parties conference on Kashmir issue and have condemned the attempt of the Indian government to declare the freedom struggle of Kashmiri people as terrorism, terming it an effort to divert the attention of the United Nations and the international community from the real issue. JUI-F head and […]
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SOURCE: THE TELEGRAPH State-run NPCIL, which will build a 1400MW nuclear power plant at Gorakhpur in Haryana, is asking domestic equipment suppliers to buy a new insurance product, whose proceeds will create a corpus – nuclear liability pool – to compensate victims if there are mishaps. The lack of such a corpus was holding back […]
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SOURCE: PTI Scientists at the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) are gearing up for the launch of geostationary weather satellite INSAT-3DR sometime by the end of August month, a top official of the agency said on Sunday. “The GSLV (Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle) Mark II will carry the geostationary weather satellite INSAT-3DR.We are looking to […]
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SOURCE: ENS China itself has violated the consensus arrived at the 2010 nuclear non-proliferation treaty (NPT) review conference by transferring nuclear reactors to Pakistan, as per a media report. The Times of India reported that this was observed by Arms Control Association, one of leading authorities on nuclear weapons and disarmament, in its latest report assessing progress on […]
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SOURCE: ENS General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Western Command, Lt Gen KJ Singh, speaks to The Indian Express and gives an insight into the new strategies worked out by the Command to take on its traditional adversary on the western borders, as well as the counter terrorism measures to control infiltration. How has the operational doctrine of Western […]
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SOURCE: PTI Union Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar on Saturday said the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) can have a tie-up with the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs). “We have signed an agreement with DRDO for jet propulsion lab which is to be jointly set up with IIT Mumbai and Madras, the total cost of […]
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SOURCE: PTI Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar today said we have put a check on infiltration along the Pakistan border and over 70 terrorists who were trying to enter India from Pakistan have been shot dead so far this year. “We have put a check on infiltration into India along the Pakistan border. Terrorists trying to […]
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SOURCE: PTI Two soldiers were killed during a land mine blast in the Kargil sector along the LoC during a routine patrol duty, the Army said today. “The soldiers were martyred on July 29 while patrolling when they were caught in a mine blast,” Udhampur based defense spokesman Col S D Goswami said.He said due […]
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SOURCE: ENS JAMMU: BJP today demanded Ashok Chakra, the country’s highest peacetime military decoration, for the soldiers who killed Hizbul Mujahideen commander Burhan Wani, saying he was a militant who had to die. “Burhan Wani was a militant who had to die and the security personnel who killed him need commendation. The personnel should be awarded […]
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SOURCE: ENS With an anonymous phone call tipping off the Suryalanka air force station in Guntur district of Andhra Pradesh on Saturday evening that local people had heard a loud explosion in the Narsipatnam forest on July 22, the Indian Air Force (IAF) and the Andhra Pradesh Forest Department have jointly launched a search in that […]
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SOURCE: PTI A poster of hitherto-unknown group of stone-pelters has appeared in Srinagar, threatening girls against riding two-wheelers or they would be set on fire. “We request all girls, please do not use Scooty (two- wheeler). If we see any girl who rides Scooty, we will burn the Scooty as well as the girl,” reads […]
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SOURCE: SWARAJYA MAG On 12 June 1999, Pakistani Foreign Minister Sartaj Aziz hastily arrived in New Delhi, ostensibly to discuss ways of ending the Kargil War. Aziz, who deeply resents India, had landed with a single agenda – he implored India to “stop its airstrikes”.Here was a conservative hawk, who is known to attack India […]
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SOURCE: Defense-update.com The first F-35 bound to Israel made its maiden flight June 26 from Fort Worth, Texas, flown by Lockheed Martin’s test pilot. The aircraft will now conduct a series of flight tests to confirm its airworthiness. It is expected to land in Israel on December 12, 2016. These test flights will be concluded […]
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SOURCE: SPUTNIK Russia’s new “super tank,” the T-14 Armata, appears to be well-protected against one of the most commonly used anti-tank missiles in the world, the “stalwart” US-made BGM-71 TOW, defense analyst Sebastien Roblin wrote for the National Interest, but there is a twist. The expert compared Armata’s defensive capabilities with technical characteristics of two […]
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SOURCE: IANS The Indian Navy has initiated the first steps towards acquiring the Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System (EMALS) for carriers as well as the long-range Predator B Guardian surveillance drone by sending Letters of Request (LoRs) to the Pentagon under government-to-government deals. According to defence magazine India Strategic (http://ift.tt/18ImXPp) the LoRs, requesting price and availability […]
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SOURCE: PTI Ahead of its transgression in Barahoti area in Uttarakhand, Chinese People’s Liberation Army had conducted a reconnaissance mission using high class aircraft armed with Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) which provides broad-area imaging at high resolutions. According to official sources, ‘TupolovTu 153M’ aircraft of Chinese PLA had carried out two to three sorties earlier this […]
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SOURCE: IANS India is just “one or two years” away from indigenously manufacturing missiles, Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar said on Saturday, claiming that DRDO scientists were on the verge of evolving seeker technology, which is critical to developing missile systems. “We are at a very advanced stage of breaking into the technology of seeker, which is […]
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SOURCE: EURASIA REVIEW In July 2016, Pakistan suddenly finds itself in India’s diplomatic crosshairs due to its political over-reach on Kashmir by Pakistan’s apex levels attempting to maximise Pakistan-generated unrest in Kashmir Valley. India has put Pakistan on notice by what amounts to a calibrated downgrade of diplomatic relations with Pakistan. Yesterday, India’s decision to ask […]
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SOURCE: TNN India is now planning “a direct strategic purchase” of six flight refuelling aircraft (FRA) or tankers to enhance the reach of its fighter jets, bombers and surveillance aircraft after the bid to acquire them through global tenders failed twice over the last decade. Consequently, the defence ministry (MoD)+ has scrapped the proposed Rs […]
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SOURCE: TNN In a great boost to the ‘Make in India’ programme, the Naval Science and Technological Laboratory (NSTL) has successfully handed over indigenously built defence weapons Varunastra, Maareech and Fire Control System to the Indian Navy, said vice-admiral KO Thakare at NSTL on Thursday. Speaking as the chief guest at the 47th Lab Raising […]
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SOURCE: THE WIRE In a little over a month from now, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Vietnam, signalling India’s interest in stronger ties with a key Southeast Asian partner at a time when the region is grappling with the fallout from Beijing’s reaction to the recent international tribunal decision on the South China Sea. Modi is already scheduled to travel to two […]
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SOURCE: ENS Having learnt from UPA’s follies in defence deals, which marred its image due to bribery scandals, the BJP-led NDA government is taking care before inking its first major acquisition deal to procure 36 Rafale warplanes with France.A highly-placed source said that the Ministry of Defence before going ahead with the much-awaited deal, is seeking […]
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SOURCE: HINDUSTAN TIMES Lt Gen KJ Singh, Western Command commander, who is retiring on Sunday, has said that the role of army in tackling the terrorists at Dinanagar (Gurdaspur) on July 27 last year was underplayed. He said the light machine gun (LMG) bullets that killed at least one of the three terrorists were those […]
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SOURCE: SCROLL In the run up to the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, the Bharatiya Janata Party made sure to attack the ruling Manmohan Singh government’s foreign policy for being too soft. In the case of Pakistan, for example, Narendra Modi even went so far as to propose the use of military might in order to respond […]
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SOURCE: SCROLL Anyone speaking against the country must be taught a lesson of his life, Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar said on Saturday. Without taking names, the Union minister gave examples of “an actor” and a certain “online trading company”, who, he said, were taught lessons for the former’s remarks against India, reported The Indian Express. Parrikar […]
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SOURCE: PTI Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar today met the family of Flight Lieutenant Kunal Barpatte, who was the navigator on board the AN-32 aircraft which went missing on July 22 off Chennai, and said he was personally monitoring the situation. “I am shocked. This was one of the IAF’s safest, sturdiest and oldest aircraft. How […]
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SOURCE: PTI Scores of paramilitary veterans will hold a demonstration at Jantar Mantar here tomorrow demanding pay equivalent to that in the army for the serving personnel. “There are 8 lakh retired paramilitary personnel and 12 lakh are currently serving in units like CRPF, SSB and BSF. Our men are guarding the Indo-Nepal Himalayan border and also […]
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SOURCE: Netindian The India-Thailand military exercise Maitree 2016 conculded at Krabi in Thailand today.The two-week exercise had commenced on July15 under the aegis of the Royal Thailand Army.An official press release said 90 soldiers of the Indian Army and Royal Thailand Army had participated in the exercise, which included combined training, familiarization with weapons & […]
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SOURCE: ENS Why Husain Haqqani At a time when talks between India and Pakistan are stalled, author and former Pakistan envoy to the US Husain Haqqani tries to make sense of what has gone wrong in the relationship and what is the way forward. Haqqani, who has been advisor to four prime ministers in […]
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SOURCE: PTI The Ministry of Defence has put on hold plans to scrap its acquisition of 98 Black Shark heavyweight torpedoes from a subsidiary of tainted Italian firm Finmeccannica. Sources told that the decision to stall the scrapping of the Rs 1,800-crore torpedo deal was taken this month. Defence minister Manohar Parrikar is believed to have […]
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SOURCE: INDIA TODAY Enemy submarines lurking in waters of India’s interest will soon find their stay to be uncomfortable.Overcoming eight years of stalling and stagnation, Indian Navy (IN) has finally signed on the dotted line to enhance the effectiveness of its ten submarine hunting helicopters, the Russian Kamov-28. India Today has learnt that after a […]
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SOURCE: THE DIPLOMAT A nuclear doctrine is a pretty important document. While most military white papers or laid down doctrines serve the exclusive purpose of guiding a nation’s defense forethought in matters of strategic and national security, a nuclear doctrine offers an additional function — deterrence, by making a nation’s position and retaliatory intentions publicly […]
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SOURCE: ENS If any international standards were there to ascribe values to countries in proportion to the quantum and intensity of their “border disputes”, China would possibly top the bill. It has maritime territorial disputes with almost all its neighbours in the South China Sea and a lingering but intense border dispute with India. In […]
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SOURCE: INDIA TODAY Some parachutes designed by a DRDO laboratory were found to be defective, Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar informed Parliament. The parachutes designed by Aerial Delivery Research and Development Establishment (ADRDE), a premier laboratory of DRDO, were meant to be used by paratroopers. DEFECTIVE CLOTH MATERIAL The Defence Minister said in response to a […]
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SOURCE: THE HINDU China’s military cooperation with Pakistan will involve bolstering the Pakistani navy next, an expert on China-Pakistan relations said on Friday, pointing to Pakistan’s planned acquisition of eight submarines from China as one of the “biggest and most significant” markers of their relationship. “China will continue to bolster Pakistan’s military, and the navy […]
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SOURCE: ENS The nuclear plants in Koodankulam could soon be operating on a new fuel assembly which could boost the efficiency if the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board gives its clearance, according to the fuel company based in Moscow. Oleg Grigoriev, vice-president of JSC TVEL, a subsidiary of Russian State Energy Nuclear Corporation (ROSATOM), said in an […]
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SOURCE: SPUTNIK The outbreak of war over the contested territory would be nothing new for India and Pakistan, but the two rival nations now possess considerable nuclear arsenals. The disputed Indian-occupied territories of Kashmir and Jammu have erupted into a scene of violence and chaos resulting in the deaths of at least 47 people and […]
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SOURCE: SPUTNIK New Delhi and Moscow near an $8 billion deal to upgrade the fearsome Su-30MKI fighter jet into the Super Sukhoi, but the deal does not threaten the joint Indo-Russia fifth-generation fighter aircraft (FGFA) program.Negotiations between New Delhi and Moscow have ramped up with India planning to upgrade 194 warplanes to become fifth-generation Sukhoi SU-30MKI fighter jets at a […]
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SOURCE: INDIA TODAY The US Air Force is considering certifying the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter ready for combat. If that happens, it would be a hard-earned milestone for the fighter plane that in the past has been called the ‘plane that ate the Pentagon’. General Herbert “Hawk” Carlisle, head of the US Air Force’s Air […]
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SOURCE: FIRSTPOST India’s security establishment, which has been surprised by the ease with which militants are drawing support in the Kashmir Valley, particularly in the most violence-hit areas of south Kashmir, might want to take a look at a series of posters put up by the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and Hizbul Mujahideen (HM), urging people to continue their agitation till […]
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SOURCE: TNN The country’s defence establishment is upset with the “somewhat lackadaisical” manner in which the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) is patrolling certain stretches of the 4,057-km Line of Actual Control (LAC) with China, with the Army once again demanding that the paramilitary force should be placed under its “operational control” for better border management. The […]
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SOURCE: TNN If the civil administration decides to use the army “for protection and killing an insurgency network”, the army should be allowed to control it by “firing straight”, defence minister Manohar Parrikar said here on Saturday. “I don’t want to train the army to use lathis,” he added.The issue has come to the fore because […]
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SOURCE: PTI Union Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar today said the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) can have a tie-up with the IITs. “We have signed an agreement with DRDO for jet propulsion lab which is to be jointly set up with IIT Mumbai and Madras, the total cost of which is about Rs 160 crore,” […]
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SOURCE: ENS For decades, a kind of cold war enveloped South Asia mainly because India and Pakistan didn’t get along and the talk of war never really subsided. Then in 2015-16 something different happened. Two economic corridors suddenly sprang into existence, and if they are meant for trade then this cold war must come to an […]
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SOURCE: RUSSIA & INDIA REPORT India has accelerated negotiations to begin the modernization of 194 Su-30MKI fighters, worth $ 8 billion, with Russia, reports the Defence News portal. The Indian Defence Ministry plans to upgrade the status of these fighters to 5th generation aircraft. The updated aircraft will be named ‘Super Sukhoi’.”The Russian delegation visited […]
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SOURCE: OUTLOOK On the eve of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s second trip to the US as PM in September last year, the Cabinet Committee on Security cleared the proposal to purchase 22 ‘assault helicopters’, or helicopter gunships, from Boeing for the Indian air force and the army. The decision had come as a surprise to […]
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SOURCE: ENS After the surface search by the Indian Navy and Coast Guard vessels, now it is the turn of Indian research vessels to prove their mettle in the underwater search for the missing aircraft AN-32. As eight days of surface search have failed to locate the debris of the aircraft 150 nautical miles East […]
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SOURCE: THE HINDU Four years ago, the picturesque two-km shoreline that is the Kovvada beach in Andhra Pradesh was the site of a small resistance movement. A ragtag bunch of protesters, including local fisherfolk, raised slogans against the location of a “nuclear power park” that would rob them of their livelihood and expose them to high […]
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SOURCE: IANS One of the reasons for the US’s interest in integration of northeast India with southeast Asia is a “lurking concern” about China’s looming presence in the region, a political science expert said here on Thursday. “Regional integration (by the US) is seen as a good thing as it will lead to prosperity and greater […]
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SOURCE: Kashmir Observer Pakistan’s former National Security Advisor General Mahmud Ali Durrani has said that Pakistan Army controls the foreign policy on India and Afghanistan as the political leadership and the civilian institutions were weak and had to do more to “earn respect”. “As far as our foreign policy towards India, Afghanistan and Iran is concerned, […]
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SOURCE: ZEE MEDIA Husain Haqqani, former Pakistani ambassador to the United Nations, has advocated that neither India nor Pakistan should interfere or worry about events that are taking place in the parts of Kashmir being ruled by them respectively. Amid protests in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) over alleged rigging of elections in favour of Prime Minister […]
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SOURCE: HINDUSTAN TIMES The United States has expressed concerns over the recent unrest in Kashmir and called on “all sides” to make efforts to find a peaceful solution to the issue. Protests broke out across Kashmir Valley on July 9, a day after Hizbul Mujahideen commander Burhan Wani was killed in an encounter with security […]
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SOURCE: ENS Two soldiers and two militants were killed near the Line of Control in NorthKashmir’s Nowgam sector. The militants were trying to infiltrate into the Valley.Officials said that army engaged a group of infiltrators near Nowgam sector on the LoC in Kupwara district. In the encounter, two army men and two militants were killed. […]
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SOURCE: DAILYO In his seminal On the Psychology of Military Incompetence Norman Dixon poses the questions: “How, if they are so lacking in intelligence, do people become senior military commanders? And what is it about military organisations that they should attract, promote and ultimately tolerate those whose performance at the highest levels brings opprobrium on the […]
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SOURCE: EURASIA REVIEW The arcane and abstruse world of the Military and Media landscape in India is under political and public scanner yet again following reports of reckless handling of the Kashmir violence that erupted after the killing of a Hizb-ul-Mujahidden youth leader, Burhan Wani. In an open letter to the dead militant, Major Gaurav […]
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SOURCE: TNN A report by the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) has revealed that the Army received composite net radios used in armoured fighting vehicles worth Rs 22 crore even though these were not required. In 2005, the report says, the Army for no documented reason bought 500 of these radios for field trials from Bharat […]
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SOURCE: US NAVY PR The submarine tender USS Frank Cable (AS 40) arrived in Goa, India, for a port visit, July 29.The visit is aimed at building friendship and goodwill between the U.S. Navy and the people of India. The Frank Cable team, consisting of more than 500 Sailors and civilian mariners, is currently on […]
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SOURCE: PTI There was no record of stay of Subhash Chandra Bose in Soviet Union in 1945 and thereafter, according to a new set of 25 declassified files on Netaji released here today. This revelation challenges a belief that Bose had fled to Russia and was not killed in an air carsh in 1945 in […]
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SOURCE: PTI As protests continued for the 21st day today in Kashmir, Union minister Kiren Rijiju said “highly motivated” people in some parts of the Valley, who are “out of national mainstream”, were making it difficult for the government to improve the situation there. Delivering a lecture on cyber security, Minister of State for Home Rijiju […]
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SOURCE: ZEE MEDIA Anurag Thakur, the Bharatiya Janata Party MP and Board Of Control For Cricket In India president, on Friday began a new innings as an officer of the Territorial Army.The 41-year-old was commissioned into the Territorial Army (TA) as a regular officer by Chief of Army Staff General Dalbir S Suhag at South […]
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SOURCE: PTI Pakistan’s Punjab government has asked police to keep a close watch on the fundraising activities of JuD, led by Mumbai attack mastermind Hafiz Saeed, through charities at mosques and other places. Punjab Home Department has directed top officials of police to provide details of fundraising by Jamaat-ud-Dawah and other proscribed organisations as the […]
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SOURCE: Bharat Karnad / THE INDIA ECONOMIST There’s a report about the Pakistan Air Force acquiring a squadron of Mirage 2000-5s from Qatar. But for the interventions by ACM S Tyagi (Retd)—yes, the same IAF chief since fingered in the Agusta-Westland scam, sixty of these planes would have been in the Indian fleet, a decade back. These […]
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SOURCE: SPUTNIK Russia and India are discussing a delivery of three new guided missile frigates for the Indian Navy, the deputy chief of the United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC) said Friday. India has six frigates of the Talwar class, the forerunner of Project 11356, which are built at the Yantar shipyard in Russia’s westernmost Baltic exclave of Kaliningrad. “The final decision […]
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SOURCE: TNN In a boost to India’s probe against Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Muhammed handlers in the attack on the Pathankot IAF base, the US has handed over evidence, comprising over 1,000 pages of chats and conversations between handler Kashif Jaan and the four fidayeen who were eventually killed, to the NIA. The conversations, as in the case of […]
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SOURCE: IANS Preparations for the launch of weather satellite INSAT-3DR with the geosynchronous satellite launch vehicle (GSLV-MkII) next month are progressing at Sriharikota, officials said on Friday. “The weather satellite INSAT-3DR will be put into orbit by a GSLV rocket August end. Preparations for the launch are going on,” P. Kunhi Krishnan, Director of the Satish […]
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SOURCE: ZEE MEDIA Pakistan occupied Kashmir has been witnessing violence ever since ever since Nawaz Sharif’s Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) won the recently held elections.Angry over rigged elections in the PoK region, locals burnt Pakistani flag in Neelum Valley area. Reports said that the protesters later faced police action. Election posters were blackened in Neelam […]
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SOURCE: DAWN PK A fresh push led by the US for India’s inclusion in the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) is expected by October this year, according to a diplomatic source. The NSG’s consultative group is tentatively scheduled to meet in October and a special session of the 48-member nuclear trade cartel is likely to be […]
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SOURCE: TNN Deepening the mystery behind the disappearance of the Indian Air Force (IAF)’s AN-32, the aircraft manufacturer, Antonov, has said the on-board emergency locator transmitter (ELT) may not have been activated because of two reasons – the aircraft hitting the surface without enough force or the pilot failing to switch the device on. The […]
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SOURCE: INDIA TODAY Saifulla Bahadur Ali, the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terrorist who was nabbed during an encounter with the security forces in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kupwara region earlier this week, has revealed some of the audacious plans of his terror organisation during interrogation by the National Investigation Agency (NIA). The Lashkar terrorist, who was airlifted to […]
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SOURCE: FIRSTPOST Ambassador Husain Haqqani, a Hudson Institute Senior Fellow and Director for South and Central Asia served as Pakistan’s ambassador to the United States after Mumbai attacks of November 2008. A passionate advocate for the need for Pakistan to change its attitude and policy towards India, Haqqani spoke to Sunil Raman about his new […]
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SOURCE: ENS IN its latest conspiracy theory regarding the Kashmir issue, Pakistan has blamed Indian employees of social networking giant Facebook for taking down content supporting and praising slain Hizbul Mujahideen commander Burhan Wani. Islamabad has launched an incessant campaign touting Wani, whose online gun-wielding chronicles have been well circulated, as ‘a popular Kashmiri leader’ […]
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SOURCE: ZEE MEDIA The Ministry of External Affairs on Friday ruled out any possibility of a bilateral meeting between India and Pakistan during the SAARC event.Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh will represent India at the upcoming meeting of South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC). In a tweet message, MEA spokesperson Vikas Swarup said: “Let me […]
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SOURCE: PTI Army will finalise the Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) for disposal of defective ammunition within a fixed timeframe, Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar told Lok Sabha on Friday against the backdrop of a fire at an ammunition depot in Maharashtra that killed 19 people. He said the government has approved various measures based on the […]
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SOURCE: THE HINDU INS Viraat, the oldest aircraft carrier in the world and the second carrier to be operated by the Indian Navy, arrived at the Cochin Shipyard for its decommissioning refit on Thursday. Sailing from Mumbai on its own steam for the last time, the carrier will undergo a month-long decommissioning refit for about a […]
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SOURCE: FIRSTPOST Controversial Islamic preacher Zakir Naik, has slapped a Rs 500-crore defamation case against Times Now editor-in-chief Arnab Goswami for running a “hate campaign” and “media trial” against him. In the notice, issued by Naik’s lawyer Mubin Solkar, the preacher has also levelled a few other charges against the channel including “creating enmity and hatred between […]
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SOURCE: IANS Union defence minister Manohar Parrikartoday told parliament that India has sought help from US to check if their satellites captured any signals from themissing AN-32 aircraft, while noting there was very little possibility that sabotage played any role. Giving clarifications on the missing aircraft in the Rajya Sabha, the minister said he was […]
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SOURCE: PTI Hindustan Aeronautics Limited on Friday said it has flown the first Final Operational Configuration (FOC) upgraded Mirage-2000 aircraft, adhering to the scheduled date. It said the first flight of 45 minutes duration on Thursday was piloted by Group Captain C Subramaniam (Retd), Chief Test Pilot of HAL, from the front cockpit and Wing Commander Haldikar of Aircraft and Systems Testing […]
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SOURCE: Huffingtonpost.in Former Pakistani ambassador to the US and expert on South Asian politics, Husain Haqqani, published a short monograph with Juggernaut Books last month called India vs Pakistan: Why Can’t We Just Be Friends? Written accessibly, it charts the history of India-Pakistan relations through the decades, cutting through the jingoism and rhetoric that have blinded […]
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SOURCE: ZEE MEDIA Are terrorists plotting to target Prime Minister Narendra Modi during theIndependence Day celebrations this August 15? Yes, if intelligence agencies are to be believed. As per reports, intelligence agencies have warned that terror groups like the Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) and the Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) could join hands to carry out a drone attack at the […]
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SOURCE: ANI Taking on Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif for describing Kashmir as `unfinished agenda` of the United Nations, Minister of State in Prime Minister`s Office (PMO) Jitendra Singh on Thursday said India`s only unfinished agenda with Islamabad is to retrieve the part of Jammu and Kashmir, which continues to be illegally occupied even after 68 […]
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SOURCE: ZEE MEDIA Former chairman of India’s Joint Intelligence Committee and ex-deputy national security advisor Dr SD Pradhan has made a sensational revelation regarding the killing of al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden by the US Navy SEALs.Speaking exclusively to IBNKhabar, Pradhan said the US and India exchange intelligence at times. While the US has shared […]
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SOURCE: FIRSTPOST Three kinds of forces that are inimical to India’s stability have gathered momentum since 2008. They are generally viewed independent of each other, but each is a potent threat to stability. The first of these is China, and the second Pakistan. The third is the eruption of a mass of angry and aggressive […]
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SOURCE:Brigadier Arun Bajpai (Retd) / MERI NEWS Recently the Indian Army chief, General Dilbag Singh Suhag has issued a letter in public domain which is almost apologetic of Army being made to use force to curb current violence by stone-pelters is Kashmir Valley. The Indian Army is a highly trained and professional organisation. It has […]
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SOURCE: AFP Gunfire echoes through a dusty northwest tribal town, the soundtrack to Pakistan’s biggest arms black market, where Kalashnikovs welded from scrap metal are cheaper than smartphones and sold on an industrial scale.Darra Adamkhel, a town surrounded by hills some 35 kilometres (20 miles) south of the city of Peshawar, was a hub of […]
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SOURCE: ENS The search for the missing Indian Air Force transport aircraft is decidedly more difficult than it was during the hunt for the Coast Guard’s Dornier, as the flight data recorder of this plane – one of the older versions of aircraft – does not emit any signals, said experts. The AN-32 carrying 29 […]
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SOURCE: ENS Intelligence agencies and investigation teams probing terror activities have raised concern over the growing response in Pune to the propaganda of Islamic State (IS) to establish a ‘Caliphate’. In the last couple of months, various agencies questioned some of the suspects living in Pune, including foreign nationals and even local residents, in connection […]
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SOURCE: DAILY PIONEER If Venkaiah Naidu realised that the Indian military is not facing a two-front, but a three-front war threat, he wouldn’t have said that India need not talk with Pakistan to resolve the Kashmir issue — for this will generate new threats and require massive military preparedness Writing in a leading newspaper, Union […]
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SOURCE: INDIA TODAY The Indian Army received a rap on the knuckles from the Comptroller and Auditor General Of India (CAG) over not providing adequate fresh fruits and vegetables to its jawans. The CAG noticed wide variation in the receipt of fruits and vegetables in the prescribed proportion in the Western and Eastern command.The report […]
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SOURCE: ENS National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Thursday took custody of a nabbed Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist Bahadur Ali alias Saifullah and brought him to the national capital by special flight on Wednesday to probe larger conspiracy unleashed by Pakistan. Pakistan’s role in sponsoring terrorism against India in Kashmir was again exposed after Saifullah told officials that […]
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SOURCE: PTI A LeT ‘Ameer’ was leading the funeral procession of Hizbul commander Burhan Wani who was killed in an encounter, Mumbai attack mastermind and JuD chief Hafiz Saeed has claimed, in a pointer to the Pakistan-based terror group’s role in anti-India protests in Kashmir Valley. “Burhan Wani was martyred. Lakhs of Kashmiris came to the […]
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SOURCE: THE HINDU China on Thursday denied that its troops had crossed into the Indian side of the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in Uttarakhand. It also declined to comment on reports about the improvement of infrastructure and India’s enhanced military profile in Ladakh. In response to a question on reports that Chinese forces had […]
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SOURCE: PTI The Central Information Commission has directed the army to provide details of soldiers whose bodies were mutilated by insurgents and enemy soldiers during skirmishes on Pakistan and China borders.The case resulted from a RTI application filed by Abhishek Shukla in 2013 as the army decided to keep under covers the information in this regard […]
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SOURCE: C. Christine Fair / THE DIPLOMAT In 2007, India began an official tender process for 126 multi-role, medium-range combat aircraft (MMRCA) with Paris-based Dassault at a cost of about $11 billion. It was the world’s largest fighter jet deal at the time. Since then the deal has unraveled. Negotiations stalled over price and quality […]
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SOURCE: BLOOMBERG For private-sector executives in India who normally get only snippets of information to design components of complex military hardware, climbing into tanks and talking to combat soldiers is an eye-opener. Earlier this month, more than 200 representatives of defense companies — big and small, local and foreign — got unprecedented access to India’s […]
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SOURCE: DECCAN CHRONICLE. The Vizag-based Naval Science and Technological Laboratory (NSTL) has successfully completed all trials of the Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV). “The AUV’s basic design is ready with us after undertaking many user evaluation trials and tests. Now we have asked the Indian Navy to give us its Quality Requirements (QR) so that we can […]
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SOURCE: World Socialist Web Site In a blog titled “US unleashes the dogs of war in Afghanistan,” Indian geopolitical analyst M.K. Bhadrakumar has warned that Washington will likely soon seek to use Indian military bases and combat troops to wage war in Afghanistan. Such action, he warns, would rile China and Pakistan, both of which […]
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SOURCE: NDTV The navy’s ambition to have a formidable presence far away from the Indian coastline rests largely on one fighter jet – the MiG-29K bought from Russia. And according to the state’s national auditor, it’s working so poorly that it’s hardly available for use. In a scathing report submitted to parliament two days ago, the […]
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SOURCE: ENS Ahead of Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh’s visit to Islamabad to attend a SAARC meeting on August 4, Ministry of External Affairs spokesperson Vikas Swarup said India is ready to discuss all issues with Pakistan in a atmosphere free of “terror and violence”. The MEA, at a press conference held in Delhi, hit […]
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SOURCE: LIVEMINT Acknowledging the important role played by the media in India-China relations, India on Thursday said it would not object to the Chinese state news agency Xinhuareplacing three journalists whose visas were not renewed by the Indian government. Wu Qiang and Lu Tang, heads of Xinhua’s bureaus in Delhi and Mumbai , respectively, and […]
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SOURCE: IHS Jane’s Defence Weekly India’s Ministry of Defence (MoD) has concluded negotiations with Italian arms manufacturer Beretta for the import of 177 sniper rifles for its Marine Commandos (MARCOS), the special forces unit of the Indian Navy (IN), for an estimated INR200 million (USD2.98 million). Official sources said the contract for 177 Sako Tikka T3 […]
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SOURCE: INDIA TODAY One of the developments that turned the tide of the Kargil war 17 years ago was the audacious decision – taken by the government on May 25, 1999 – to employ fighter jets of the Indian Air Force for precision air strikes against the entrenched enemy. The very next day, IAF began […]
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SOURCE: HT Afghanistan has accused Lashkar-e-Taiba founder Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, wanted by India, of overseeing attacks by Islamic State fighters in the war-torn country. Afghan officials raised the issue during a trilateral meeting of Afghan, Pakistani and US military officials at the defence ministry in Kabul on Tuesday.Voice of America quoted an Afghan defence ministry […]
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SOURCE: NDTV Burhan Wani would “have been given a chance” had security forces who shot him been aware of his identity, Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti told NDTV today, contradicting earlier details about how the 22-year-old terrorist died. So far, security forces said that intel inputs led to Wani and two other terrorists on […]
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SOURCE: IANS India`s hopes for a permanent seat on the Security Council were dampened as the General Assembly decided to push further negotiations on reforms to the next session after discussions this year failed to make headway.The Assembly on Wednesday unanimously approved the decision to roll over further action and to set up an “open-ended working […]
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SOURCE: ZEE MEDIA In what is likely to cause a huge embarrassment for Congress, former chairman of India’s Joint Intelligence Committee and ex-deputy national security advisor Dr SD Pradhan has claimed that the term ‘Hindu terror’ was coined by former home minister P Chidambaram to reap political benefits. Pradhan disclosed that Intelligence Bureau had first hand […]
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SOURCE: PTI A top Pakistani court has allowed the examination of a boat used by the 10 LeT terrorists to reach India for carrying out the 2008 Mumbai attack, overturning an anti-terrorism court verdict which it termed as “flawed”. “The Islamabad High Court has set aside the verdict of trial court (Anti-Terrorism Court) in Mumbai […]
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SOURCE: FE Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar today sought to clarify on the issue of Chinese incursion, saying, “The India-china border is not formally demarcated. There are areas where both sides have differing perceptions of LAC (Line of Actual Control).” “Barhoti in Uttarakhand is one such area. There was no incursion by Chinese troops, just transgression which […]
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SOURCE: PTI Pakistan’s sustained support to cross-border terrorism will be raised by Home Minister Rajnath Singh during his two-day visit to Islamabad to attend the SAARC ministerial conference beginning August 3. Rajnath, who will attend the SAARC Home Interior/Home Ministers’ conference, is expected to bluntly ask Pakistan to stop sponsoring acts of terror in India, […]
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SOURCE: ANI In a bid to strengthen the might of People’s Liberation Army (PLA), Chinese President Xi Jinping has asked the ground force of the army to transform and build itself into a mighty, modernised and new-style military force. Xi made the remarks on Wednesday during an inspection of the army’s headquarters ahead of the 89th […]
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SOURCE: PTI Zen Technologies, simulation technology based training solutions companies in India, has been selected by Egypt to provide range of training equipment including smart target systems for its military. The order worth about Rs 30 crore is the largest international order bagged by the company. Zen Technologies emerged as the front runner against tough […]
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SOURCE: ENS The trials of advanced version of the country’s first indigenously made heavyweight anti-submarine torpedo ‘Varunastra’ will begin by the year-end, Naval Science and Technological Laboratory (NSTL) director CD Malleswar told the media here on Wednesday. The NSTL has developed the torpedo with optical guidance technology for which the laboratory works have been completed. […]
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SOURCE: IDRW NEWS NETWORK India’s plans to become the latest country to jump on the 5th-Generation bandwagon by Jointly developing FGFA based on Sukhoi’s T-50 Stealth aircraft might be delayed since India and Russia are pushing for development of Super Sukhoi upgrade package for its current fleet of Sukhoi-30MKI front-line jet which might up at […]
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SOURCE: Sputnik In what is being seen as a prudent move by India and Russia the two countries are inching closer to signing a stalled 4 billion dollar project for joint development of their 5th generation fighter aircraft and upgrades for the Su-30MKI Super Sukhoi with advanced avionics and weapons. Additionally, most of the contentious issues between the two countries have been resolved or will […]
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SOURCE: Sameer Patil / EURASIA REVIEW ‘Make in India’ in defence production does not imply stopping arms imports altogether. Rather, it means importing only those components that cannot be produced locally, while strategically utilising offsets and building domestic capabilities that will enable India to export complete systems and sub-systems as an active participant of the global […]
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SOURCE: TNN Buzz Aldrin, the astronaut who partnered Neil Armstrong on man’s first visit to the Moon, on Wednesday tweeted an image of his reimbursement form, which shows $33 in claims 46 years ago. While Aldrin got to live his dream, two Indian scientists who worked with Isro weren’t as lucky. NC Bhat and P Radhakrishnan […]
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SOURCE: TNN Kota Harinaryana, chief designer of light combat aircraft (LCA) Tejas, here on Friday said indigenous technology in the field of military aviation is important for country’s defence preparedness. Speaking at the ninth day of celebrations of IIT Bhubaneswar, Harinaryana said that there must be least dependence on imported materials in defence. Sharing his thought […]
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SOURCE: ENS In search of the missing Indian Air Force aircraft in the vast expanse of sea, the research vessel Sagar Nidhi will first scan a well-defined 20 X 20 nautical miles area in the Bay of Bengal, said sources. The vessel is expected to begin the underwater operation on Thursday or latest by Friday. National […]
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SOURCE: PTI Indian and US officials will meet here on Thursday for the 14th US-India counter-terrorism Joint Working Group, an official statement said.”The United States looks forward to continued counter terrorism exchanges with India to broaden and deepen the partnership between the two countries,” the State Department said in a statement yesterday. The American delegation would […]
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SOURCE: DNA INDIA It’s a great achievement by BJP MP and BCCI president Anurag Thakur! The 41-year-old BJP MP will be commissioned into the Territorial Army (TA) as a regular officer on Friday.Noteworthy, he will become the first serving BJP Member of Parliament to join the military force. Thakur cracked exam and interview Thakur made it to the TA after […]
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SOURCE: HINDUSTAN TIMES To understand how the Indian government can change its uncompromising and heavy-handed treatment of minority concerns, recall the scene last month at Nagaland House, the New Delhi base of Nagaland’s elected government. Flanked by Naga warriors in traditional battle dress and spears, the body of Isak Swu, the rebel leader who for half […]
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SOURCE: HINDUSTAN TIMES Former president Asif Ali Zardari has ruled out a nuclear war between Pakistan and India over the Kashmir issue, saying both sides wouldn’t risk using an atomic bomb as a “weapon of aggression”. “You can develop it, you can have it, you can display a photograph of it but nuclear weapons are no […]
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SOURCE: TNN Eight persons, who were stranded in fields close to Yamuna river following a sudden swelling of the river, were airifted by an Indian Air Force (IAF) helicopter on Wednesday. Yamunanagar deputy commissioner S S Phoolia said the operation carried out in Belgarh village, which is in Yamunanagar district and on the Haryana-Uttar Pradesh […]
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SOURCE: PTI Describing Kashmir as “unfinished agenda” of the United Nations, Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Wednesday vowed to raise the issue at every international platform and provide all sort of support to Kashmiris. Sharif made the remarks here while talking to newly elected lawmakers of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) after his party Pakistan Muslim […]
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SOURCE: ENS India will appeal against the verdict of Haugue tribunal in Antrix-Devas deal after the international court declared annulling of contract as unfair and asked it to pay hefty compensation. A S Kirankumar, Secretary, Department of Space said that India will appeal against the verdict.The Hague based Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) ruled against India […]
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SOURCE: DNA INDIA Long before they were swept away by the apocalyptic ideology of the Islamic State (IS), consuming its nihilistic violence on social media and celebrating their victories in battlefields as the militant group held sway in Iraq and Syria to establish a caliphate, the process of radicalisation for some Indians, accused of setting up […]
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SOURCE: FINANCIAL EXPRESS India and Israel are jointly developing and producing the Barak 8 missile system for the Indian Navy and the Indian Air Force (IAF). While the long range surface-to-air missile (LR-SAM) variant is meant for the Indian Navy, the medium range surface-to-air missile (MR-SAM) version has been developed for the IAF. The missile […]
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SOURCE: IANS A Searcher reconnaissance UAV of Indian Navy had to be ditched around 9 miles off Kerala’s Kochi on Wednesday, sources said.According to the sources, the remotely piloted vehicle was on a routine mission sortie and had to be ditched due to technical issues. “It was a controlled ditching. A board of inquiry has been […]
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SOURCE: THE DIPLOMAT India has moved a step closer in acquiring 100 new K-9 Vajra 155 mm/52 caliber self-propelled tracked howitzers for the Indian Army. A contract between the Indian Ministry of Defense and the howitzer’s maker, South Korea’s Samsung-Techwin (and its local Indian private-sector partner Larsen & Toubro (L&T), is expected to be signed within […]
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SOURCE: RUSSIA & INDIA REPORT The Indian Air Force has a variety of specialised fighters, ground attack jets and multirole aircraft in its fleet, but a strategic bomber has never figured in its war plans. According to the Russian wire service Interfax, that could change as India’s Ministry of Defence has reportedly sought to buy four Tupolev […]
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SOURCE: FINANCIAL EXPRESS Violence has erupted in many districts of Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir, as local people came out in the streets and started widespread protests against July 21 elections, alleging that they have been rigged. Nawaz Sharif’s Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) won 32 out of 41 seats, in that election. PoK Assembly hall and other government buildings […]
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SOURCE: ANI Following Uttarakhand Chief Minister Harish Rawat’s claim about the incursion of Chinese troops in the state, Minister of State for Home Affairs Kiren Rijiju on Wednesday said that appropriate action would be initiated after going through a detailed report in this regard. “The ITBP personnel are monitoring the border area. We need to assess […]
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SOURCE: INDIA TODAY A final call is yet to be taken on whether Home Minister Rajnath Singh will travel to Pakistan to attend the two-day SAARC Home Interior/Home Ministers’ conference which is to be held in the first week of August. The Home Ministry is ready to remind Pakistan of its solemn promise of reciprocity […]
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SOURCE: ENS The Comptroller and Auditor General of India has expressed serious concerns over the usage of a VIP fleet of Indian Air Force planes to the places which are connected by commercial airline services. The report of the audit of the IAF, tabled in the both Houses of Parliament on Tuesday, clearly stated that […]
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SOURCE: ENS The CRPF, which is at the forefront of the pitched street battle in Kashmir, has expressed regret over the injuries caused by pellet guns but maintained that the weapon might be used in extreme situations, a few days after Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh said he would set up a committee to review the […]
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SOURCE: PTI India today said it is exploring “ways and means for obtaining a satisfactory resolution” to the Kohinoor issue with Britain, a day after the UK government claimed no legal ground exists for New Delhi to take back the famed diamond. “The Ministry of External Affairs is exploring ways and means for obtaining a satisfactory […]
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SOURCE: ZEE MEDIA Controversial televangelist Zakir Naik of the Islamic Research Foundation (IRF) used funds from countries like Saudi Arabia to carry out illegal conversions in India, says a report.The report surfaces a day after another report claimed that Naik used to lure Hindus and Jains with money to make them convert to Islam. The […]
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