Monday 27 July '09
Over the next two years, a series of tests, including the crucial activation of the nuclear reactor and firing of missiles, will be carried out on the INS Arihant...Sunday 26 July '09
India joined an elite club of nations with the induction of indigenously-built nuclear-powered submarine, reaching a significant milestone in completing its nuclear triad with capacity to launch missiles from land, air and sea.Sunday
26 July '09More than three decades after the project was secretly sanctioned by then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi....Saturday
25 July '09In a scathing report on the 2004 Gorshkov deal, the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) has said the government is acquiring a second-hand aircraft carrier....Friday
24 July '09While the heat has been turned on the government over the End User Monitoring Agreement (EUMA) with the US, India has in the past signed at least three defence deals...Thursday
23 July '09Almost two months after its most advanced fighter aircraft crashed in mysterious circumstances killing a pilot....Sunday
19 July '09A decade after India lost 533 soldiers and officers in the Kargil war, the number of troops on these peaks has gone up nearly five times. Manu Pubby looks at all that has changed on this side of the border. Photographs: Tashi Tobgyal...Thursday
16 July '09Putting a big question mark on the performance of the Russian beyond visual range (BVR) air-to-air missiles with the Indian Air Force....Wednesday
15 July '09A Decade after Tiger Hill and Tololing became synonymous with the Kargil war, plans to turn them into tourist destinations are making headway....Tuesday
14 July '09Exhaustive trials of the new-generation Krasnopol ‘precision guided ammunition’ procured by the Indian Army....Tuesday
14 July '09As shells and bombs stilled life in Kargil, Hotel Siachen bustled. Journalists from across the world crowded ...Tuesday
14 July '09Colonel S M Perumal, who was killed in an IED blast by suspected National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) militants near Tezpur...Monday
13 July '09Standing tall and dominating the famous Tiger Hill on the Line of Control (LoC) is a grim reminder of the Kargil war. Point 5353, the highest peak in the region which has a clear view of the National Highway 1 D...Friday
10 July '09Ten years after Captain Vijyant Thapar died a hero’s death while capturing an impossible peak in the Drass sector, his father will make a final pilgrimage to the spot to honour his son’s last wish. In his last letter...Wednesday
8 July '09He went up the heights of Batalik to look for his missing yak but what he saw and reported became the 1999 Kargil war.Wednesday
1 July '09A board of inquiry against the two senior-most members of the Navy’s high flying skydiving team has found several cases....Friday
26 June '09The Defence Ministry has written to the CBI to expedite the probe into the Ordnance scam and provide more details regarding the investigation.Wednesday
24 June '09The Indian Army is set to order new artillery guns worth approximately Rs 1,000 crore as...Saturday
20 June '09India has cleared its largest ever indigenous defence contract worth Rs 45,000 crore to manufacture seven advanced stealth frigates for the Navy....Thursday
18 June '09A week after a Russian-built AN 32 transport aircraft of the Air Force crashed in Arunachal Pradesh, killing 13 people on board...Saturday
13 June '09Ten years ago, two fighter pilots from India and Pakistan had “an interesting conversation over tea and snacks”...Friday
12 June '09A former PAF pilot, who was Director of Ops during Kargil conflict, has given a blow-by-blow account of the preparations undertaken by Pak Army that led to operations inside Indian side of LoC.Friday
12 June '09In the first account by a Pakistani military officer that nails Islamabad’s lie on Kargil, a former pilot who was Director of Operations of the Pakistan Air Force.Friday
12 June '09More than a year after the P Rama Rao Committee submitted a detailed report outlining a roadmap to transform the Defence Research and Development Organisation....Thursday
11 June '09Grappling with an acute shortage of officers, the Army will get a new Officers’ Training Academy (OTA) at Gaya with the Cabinet....
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