Defence general
Royal Navy’s largest ever warship in final stages of construction
26 Mar 2014
The £3-billion aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth is capable of cruising 500 miles a day to any war zone or disaster area.
Make report on Indo-China war public, insists Jaitley
20 Mar 2014
For over 50 years, the 1963 report on India's military debacle at the hands of China has remained a state secret, with the only two copies known to exist in the country having been securely confined to the vaults of the defence ministry and army headquarters
Italian judge blocks recovery of AgustaWestland guarantees; India to appeal
18 Mar 2014
A court in Milan yesterday accepted a plea by AgustaWestland’s parent company Finmecannica to stop India from encashing over 278 million euros in bank guarantees
New York building explodes, catches fire
12 Mar 2014
Saudi Arabia clubs Egypt’s Brotherhood with terrorist outfits
08 Mar 2014
The king’s decree followed the enactment of a sweeping new counterterrorism law that targets virtually any criticism of the government
Crimea votes to join Russia, West dismayed
07 Mar 2014
The sudden moves by Crimea, the Ukrainian Black Sea peninsula, has unnerved European Union leaders who held an emergency summit to look for ways to pressure Russia to back down and accept mediation.
Hackers break into defence, DRDO computers, hit classified files
07 Mar 2014
The computers that were hacked are located in the South Block and belong mainly to the Army and also to the other two forces and the DRDO
China to again expand defence spending by 12.2% this year
05 Mar 2014
China has for years boosted defence spending, reflecting its military ambitions as it asserts its territorial claims
Revealed: MI5 ‘super-spy’ infiltrated UK Nazi ring during WWII
01 Mar 2014
A ‘super-spy’ working for MI5, the domestic arm of British intelligence, secretly controlled a vast network of UK-based Nazi sympathisers during the Second World War by pretending to have Gestapo links, newly-released files reveal
Navy chief Joshi resigns after new submarine disaster
26 Feb 2014
The chief of the Indian Navy, Admiral D K Joshi, resigned today taking moral responsibility for the third submarine mishap in the last seven months
Ballistic missiles not on negotiating table: Iran
11 Feb 2014
Iran insists that its missile programme does not have a nuclear dimension as it is not developing atomic weapons