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21 March 2024 By Navin Singh Khadka, Environment correspondent, BBC World Service India is taking another step in its quest to find valuable minerals hidden in the depths of the ocean which could hold the key to a cleaner future. The country, which already has two deep-sea exploration licences...

- This is an Opinion piece written by S. Raghotham for the Deccan Herald - A most significant event took place in the country last week, but with almost no attention paid to it – probably because the Prime Minister did not make a big deal of it. He came, he saw, he left, apparently all in 45...

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh will be on board INS Vikramaditya and INS Vikrant task forces to inaugurate a naval base in Minicoy on March 4-5 INS Vikrant (foreground) and INS Vikramaditya - the two operational Aircraft Carriers of the Indian Navy exercised together for the first time in 2023...

by Prashant Jha, Washington DC - Hindustan Times Donald Lu, US assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia, has hailed Sri Lanka as an example of the success of the administration’s Indo-Pacific strategy in collaboration with partners such as India, but warned both Delhi and Dhaka...

The Defence Ministry has approved a proposal to procure nine (9) maritime surveillance aircraft for the Indian Navy and six (6) maritime patrol aircraft for the Indian Coast Guard, reported ANI quoting people aware of the development. The proposed acquisition involves the construction of 15...

By Anbarasan Ethirajan BBC News, Delhi India has said it is sending three warships to the Arabian Sea after a drone hit an "Israel-affiliated" merchant vessel off its western coast last week. MV Chem Pluto was attacked about 200 nautical miles (370km) off the coast of the western state of...

Renaming imminent, it is learnt. IAF aims to boost intel, surveillance & reconnaissance capabilities via space assets, has started training officers to operate in space. SMRUTI DESHPANDE 11 December, 2023 06:30 am IST New Delhi: The proposal to change the name of the Indian Air Force (IAF) to...

Developing story...what we know is that Arif Alvi, the President of Pakistan (who is the head of state, PM is head of Govt) has come out and categorically denied that he signed a number of laws, which were apparently passed as though he did. The President has accused his staff of acting on their...

Kakrapar Atomic Power Station India's first indigenously developed 700 MW nuclear power reactor at the Kakrapar Atomic Power Project (KAPP) in Gujarat started commercial operations on Friday, a senior official said. "With great pleasure, this is to inform that our first indigenous 700 MWe Unit...

By Theo Leggett in Paris & Nikhil Inamdar in Mumbai BBC News Indian carrier IndiGo has made a record order for 500 Airbus A320 aircraft - the largest single purchase agreement by any airline in commercial aviation history. The deal, announced on the first day of the Paris Airshow, is worth...

Lockheed Martin is developing a brand new Vertical Launching System (VLS) for the U.S. Navy’s Next-Generation Guided-Missile Destroyer program, also known as DDG(X). A company official revealed the preliminary details of the VLS to Naval News during an interview at Sea Air Space 2023 (SAS 2023)...

India's defence ministry on Tuesday signed an agreement with Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) to procure 70 HTT-40 Basic Trainer Aircraft for Rs 6,800 crore. The Union Cabinet had, on March 01, 2023, approved the procurement of 70 HTT-40 trainer aircraft from HAL at a cost of over Rs 6,800...

As some of you know, I'm a geopolitics enthusiast and the current era is perhaps the most volatile one in several decades. The Post-WW2 world order may be on its last legs and all bets are off regarding how the next era will shape up. With that in mind, I've taken note of the current state of...

New Delhi: Sending a strong signal to China, India Tuesday said that it would support Japan’s plan to acquire counter-strike missiles as part of security and defence cooperation between the two countries. The development came at the second round of the 2+2 ministerial meeting Thursday held in...

--- Google-translated from Italian --- (by Tiziano Ciocchetti) 26/07/22 Pakistani air defense is severely damaged by Beijing's inability to maintain surface-to-air missile systems supplied five years ago. In practice, China has failed to provide an adequate number of spare parts, thus...

Russia delivered the first two of six new Su-30 jet fighters to Myanmar in March, according to several informed sources who formerly served with the Myanmar Air Force. Moscow sent several trainers and technicians to assist the Myanmar Air Force during the warranty period, according to the...

OneWeb, the satellite company part-owned by the UK government, has done a deal to use Indian rockets. The arrangement will supplement the contract the London-headquartered firm has with American rival and rocket operator SpaceX of California. The new deal was announced as UK Prime Minister...

ISLAMABAD — Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan announced Monday that his country will import about 2 million tons of wheat from Russia and buy Natural Gas as well under bilateral agreements the two sides signed last week during his official trip to Moscow. Khan pressed on with his two-day...

In the midst of his visit to Australia for a Foreign Ministerial meeting of QUAD nations, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken tweeted out the Fact Sheet of the United States Indo-Pacific Strategy, the first such region-specific policy document released by the White House/National Security...

Future of the Indian Navy This is a list I'm making using purely open-source information regarding the fleet composition of the Indian Navy in the foreseeable future (confirmed programs seen through to their logical end, alongside existing vessels expected to serve till a reasonably distant...