Saturday 10 March '07
The Indian Air Force has set forth its vote of support on a proposal with the Civil Aviation Ministry seeking to extend and expand the only airstrip on the Lakshadweep islands.Saturday 3 March '07
Among the 4 recent death sentences given by Army courts, none has been carried outTuesday
27 February '07After a silent beginning two months ago, the Army will establish a full-fledged and permanent mountaineering institute at Siachen base camp.Wednesday
21 February '07Ever since taking over in July 2002, for the first time President A P J Abdul Kalam will inaugurate...Friday
16 February '07It’s official now that the first squadron of the indigenously-developed Light Combat Aircraft, Tejas, meant for the IAF will be powered by American-made jet engines.Tuesday
13 February '07Under pressure from the government to introduce more unambiguous targets for indigenous weapons projects...Saturday
10 February '07Our defence correspondent went up in the Boeing Super Hornet at the Aero India 2007 defence fair for 58 minutes to find out what all the fuss was aboutSaturday
10 February '07If there's one lesson the Indian defence establishment will be taking away from Aero India 2007...Friday
9 February '07In an embarrassing turn of events for Aero India 2007 mascot HAL, one of its Intermediate Jet Trainers skidded off the runway this afternoon. A tyre had burst during the take-off roll.Thursday
8 February '07With India set to make commitments worth $10-billion over the next five years towards military modernisation in the aerospace sector alone...Monday
5 February '07US Navy Admiral William J Fallon, who will soon be confirmed as Chief of the US Central Command as part of Washington’s efforts to imbue new life into leadership of the Iraq and Afghanistan operations...Monday
5 February '07In the shadow of an admittedly deep shift in threat standpoints in the Asian continent after Beijing’s January...Saturday
3 February '07An indigenously built Advanced Light Helicopter went down this morning at the air force base at Yelahanka outside Bangalore...Friday
2 February '07The violence that broke out between the Hizbollah and the Israeli Defence Forces last year, in which a battlion of Indian Army UN peacekeepers were caught in the middleThursday
1 February '07As part of the newly unveiled programme to equip the country’s armed forces with a full-fledged family of anti-missile systemsThursday
1 February '07God is not a fighter pilot. That is the punch line to an old joke in the Indian Air Force. That one line is today superbly ironic.Wednesday
31 January '07Air Marshal Fali Homi Major, a helicopter pilot, will take over as the 21st Chief of Air Staff on March 31. He succeeds Air Chief Marshal Shashindra Pal Tyagi who retires that day.Monday
29 January '07The use of offensive weapons in space, notably in the light of Beijing’s recent test of an anti-satellite missile, will be the most talked about topic early next month at a massive congregation of foreign air chiefs in the Capital.Friday
26 January '07At a time when New Delhi is conscious of expanding its defence possibilities far beyond those of the Soviet-era assistance...Thursday
25 January '07Three weeks after the ULFA unleashed a wave of attacks killing 71 migrant labourers in Assam...Thursday
25 January '07After six years of negotiations on jointly developing an advanced fifth generation fighter aircraft with stealth features, New Delhi and Moscow today reached an agreement at a meeting of their Defence Ministers.Wednesday
24 January '07Work has begun on a variant of the Indo-Russian BrahMos missile system that would, in the next few years, make India the only country with a submarine-launched supersonic cruise missile capability.Wednesday
24 January '07For five days, the airport at Visakhapatnam has been shut to civilian traffic, leaving hundreds of passengers stranded. And this time it is not the airport’s bad layoutTuesday
23 January '07On his seventh trip to New Delhi in as many years, Russian defence minister Sergei Ivanov’s agenda this time round couldn’t be more crucial, both commercially and strategically, to Moscow.Saturday
20 January '07Army chief Gen JJ Singh professed on Monday that he was willing to help anti-Naxal operations in every way except by active deployment of troops.
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