Defence general

16 May 2019

15 May 2019

15 May 2019

Abhyas, which will be used to test surface-to-air as well as air-to-air weapon systems, including anti-aircraft weapons as well as anti-cruise missile and anti-ballistic missile systems, can also be used as a jammer platform

08 May 2019

France strongly believed in “multilateralism and means that we are actively working to reform and in some respects to refound, reinvent multilateralism so that it is really efficient for the decades to come,” France’s permanent representative to the UN François Delattre told reporters at the UN headquarters

02 May 2019

China relented after the France-US-UK trio moved the UNSC, where Beijing would have to publically explain its stand on its reservations on listing Azhar as a terrorist, when his group JeM has already been designated as terror outfit by UN

30 Apr 2019

Riyas Aboobacker, who was arrested from Kerala’s Palakkad district has admitted to plotting a similar attack in India after closely following the Sri Lankan terror mastermind Zaharan Hashim

29 Apr 2019

29 Apr 2019

The NIA, which is on the trail of ISIS recruitments from Kerala, raided the houses of four suspects in Kasargode and Palakkad after evidence emerged that the targets of their probe had persistently tailed Zahara Hashim, the main accused in Sri Lanka bombing, on social media

25 Apr 2019

25 Apr 2019

With President Maithripala Sirisena asking defence minister and the police chief to resign and vowing a complete clean-up of the administration, chances of the return of the once ousted Mahinda Rajapaksa seems to be a probability

24 Apr 2019

23 Apr 2019

22 Apr 2019

Police had received a tip-off of a possible attack on churches by a little-known domestic Islamist group, the National Thawheed Jama’ut, some 10 days ago, but Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said the authorities decided to ignore it

22 Apr 2019

While the terrorists are yet to be identified and an official explanation of the terror attack may take some time, the attack had all the trappings of the 2008 Mumbai terror strike

15 Apr 2019

Nirbhay, a long range, all-weather missile that can be launched from multiple platforms, will supplement the role played by Brahmos missile in due course by delivering warheads farther than Brahmos range of 450 km

02 Apr 2019

Reports citing an internal enquiry report by Bharat Electronics Ltd said the consultant, RD Konsultants, was paid Rs13.5 lakh to prepare the initial PPR but Rs15.94 crore for the DPR of all 10 Integrated Air Command and Control Systems and that the consultants’ status was wrongly verified by the chartered accountants

29 Mar 2019

While the Sanctions Committee goes by consensus, a resolution in the Security Council only needs nine votes in favour and no vetoes by China, Russia, the United States, France or Britain to pass

20 Mar 2019

15 Mar 2019

15 Mar 2019

14 Mar 2019

China, an all-weather friend of Pakistan, is driven more by its economic interests than the need for global peace and harmony among nations

13 Mar 2019

13 Mar 2019

Pakistan is looking to lease out the Reko Diq mine in Baluchisthan to Chinese or Saudi investors, after withholding lease rights to Canada’s Barrick Gold and Chile’s Antofagasta following a dispute

12 Mar 2019

11 Mar 2019

India also deferred a planned visit by a team to river projects being implemented by Pakistan, amidst heightened tensions following the Pulwama terror attack