Defence general

10 Aug 2011

03 Aug 2011

01 Aug 2011

Germany has requested that the UN Security Council meet Monday to discuss the worsening situation in Syria, even as India takes over rotating presidency of the Council after a gap of 19 years.

30 Jul 2011

30 Jul 2011

28 Jul 2011

The unrelenting pace of military combat over the past decade has taken a substantial toll in terms of wear and tear across all wings of the armed services, leaving them at near breaking point

28 Jul 2011

27 Jul 2011

27 Jul 2011

25 Jul 2011

21 Jul 2011

Despite all the moaning over unpaid bills, Iran actually supplied more oil to India in June - up 14 per cent over May - according to a report.

16 Jul 2011

15 Jul 2011

15 Jul 2011

15 Jul 2011

The Pentagon yesterday revealed that a cyber attack launched by an unnamed foreign government earlier this year had caused the largest ever loss of sensitive data

14 Jul 2011

• The government has not ruled out the possibility of the involvement of a suicide bomber in the Mumbai serial blasts, Home Secretary RK Singh has said. According to Singh, the director general of the NSG has said that a body with circuitry embedded in it has been found from near an explosion site.
• PM Manmohan Singh on Thursday announced ex-gratia assistance of Rs2 lakh each for the kin of the deceased in Wednesday's terror attack and also Rs1 lakh each for the seriously injured.

13 Jul 2011

A quick intelligence assessment of the Wednesday bomb blasts in Mumbai by global intelligence analysis group Stratfor

13 Jul 2011

11 Jul 2011

Controversial space-services related firm, Devas Multimedia, has approached the International Court of Arbitration seeking restoration of its contract with ISRO’s commercial arm Antrix.

11 Jul 2011

India has begun construction of its second nuclear submarine at a new shipyard in Vishakhapatnam, especially configured for the indigenous nuclear submarine construction programme.

11 Jul 2011

Tightening the screws further, the United States of America has said it intends to suspend $800 million, or more than one-third, of the $2 billion in annual aid it provides to Pakistan's military services.

07 Jul 2011

By Rajiv Singh | 07 Jul 2011

Observers in Pakistan say India may have stolen a decisive march in the battle for “priority rights” of the Kishanganga-Neelam waters even before commencement of international arbitration proceedings, according to Rajiv Singh.

06 Jul 2011

France has again underlined its support for the ‘clean exemption’ granted India by the 46-nation NSG in September 2008, immediately after Delhi dropped loud hints it would retaliate in kind should the NSG amend any aspect of the exemption granted to it.

06 Jul 2011

Mumbai-based Varun Group said Tuesday it had discovered rare earth critical to the technology industry and titanium minerals in its ten exploratory and mining lease blocks in Madagascar.