NEW DELHI: In the first high-profile visit by an Arab leader to India since the Israel-Hamas war broke out, the Sultan of Oman, Haitham bin Tarik, will be hosted by PM Narendra Modi in the middle of this month. Oman is India’s closest defence partner in the Arabian Gulf, and also a key Indian Ocean … Read more
SYDNEY: Two Indian navy ships docked in Papua New Guinea on Wednesday, underscoring the strategic importance of the country to global superpowers the United States and China and their allies.The INS Kolkata guided missile destroyer and INS Sahyadri frigate will stay in PNG’s capital Port Moresby for two days, an Indian embassy official said. The … Read more
NEW DELHI: India is now once again determinedly working towards the creation of theatre commands to build an integrated war-fighting machinery in a cost-effective manner, with a “consensus” being achieved among the Army, Navy and IAF after the original plan was tweaked to address all concerns.The plan primarily is now to have three integrated theatre … Read more
NEW DELHI: Army Chief Gen Manoj Pande on Saturday said all three services of the armed forces are ready to face any challenge as a formidable instrument of the nation.Addressing a gathering of ex-servicemen on the occasion of the seventh Armed Forces Veterans Day celebrations here, he said the Indian armed forces is highly professional … Read more
Indian Navy takes delivery of Indigenous Aircraft Carrier ‘Vikrant’NEW DELHI: The Indian Navy on Thursday received their first indigenous aircraft carrier (IAC), with the 45,000-tonne warship ‘INS Vikrant’ built at a cost of almost Rs 20,000 crore being delivered by the Cochin Shipyard. In a related development, first two of the 24 submarine-hunting MH-60 `Romeo’ … Read more
NEW DELHI: India remains ahead of Russia and the United Kingdom as the third largest military spender in the world, but far behind China that spends four times and the United States, which spends 10 times its defence budget. The total global military expenditure rose to $2,113 billion in 2021, surpassing the two-trillion-USD mark for … Read more