In a definitive move to secure underwater supremacy in the Indian Ocean Region (IOR), the Indian Navy is set to acquire six advanced Type 214 diesel-electric submarines from Germany’s ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems (TKMS).
Cleared by the Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) in August 2025 under the...
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The Indian Navy is set to achieve a pivotal advancement in the modernisation of its surface fleet by officially initiating the Acceptance of Necessity (AoN) process for its futuristic Next Generation Destroyers (NGD).
Internally known as the Project-18 or P-18 class, these vessels represent a...
The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has appointed the global management consulting firm Boston Consulting Group (BCG) to formulate a sweeping restructuring plan for Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) by March 2026.
This move comes as India’s premier aerospace major and newest Maharatna PSU struggles...
Russia Confirms Grand Scale of Putin’s Visit, Signaling High Importance of Strategic Ties with India
President Vladimir Putin’s forthcoming visit to India will be extremely grand and “fruitful”, Russian State TV said on Sunday quoting Kremlin foreign policy aide Yuri Ushakov. We and the Indian side are actively preparing for the visit and hope it will be fruitful in every sense. It will be an...
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, on Sunday, stirred a fresh debate by suggesting that the Sindh region, which became part of Pakistan during the 1947 Partition, could one day return to India.
Speaking at an event in New Delhi, the Defence Minister underscored what he described as India’s deep...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi met his Italian counterpart Giorgia Meloni here on Sunday and the two leaders discussed ways to bolster bilateral ties in several areas, including trade, investment, technology, AI, space, defence and security.
During the meeting on the sidelines of the G20 summit...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi met Canadian counterpart Mark Carney here on Sunday and they agreed to unlock the potential for deeper cooperation in defence and space sectors, besides advancing ties in areas such as trade, investment, technology and energy.
“Had a very productive meeting with...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said the reform of the UN Security Council was no longer an option, but a necessity and asserted that the India-Brazil-South Africa troika should send a clear message for changes to institutions of global governance.
Addressing the India-Brazil-South...
The BrahMos supersonic cruise missile has transcended its reputation as merely the fastest weapon in its class to become a symbol of uninterceptable precision.
Following the decisive 'Operation Sindoor' in May 2025, where the missile system reportedly evaded China's most sophisticated...
Opinion How AMCA Jet's Superior Stealth and EW Capabilities Poised to Render Russian Su-57 ToT Offer Irrelevant for Indian Defence
Despite Moscow’s persistent offers of "deep technology transfer" to entice India back into the Su-57 Felon programme, defence experts and insiders are now firmly dismissing the proposal as outdated and strategically unnecessary.
In exclusive interactions with defence analysts, it has become...
Lieutenant General Manoj Kumar Katiyar, General Officer Commanding-in-Chief (GOC-in-C) of the Western Command, reviewed the validation and operational preparedness of the newly raised #ASHNI platoon during Exercise #RamPrahaar, an official said on Sunday.
The Western Command of the Indian Army...
Operation Sindoor was a “trusted orchestra” where every musician played a “simultaneous or synergistic role”, and that is how in 22 minutes, the Indian armed forces could destroy nine terrorist targets, Army Chief Gen Upendra Dwivedi said on Saturday.
In his address at a convocation ceremony of...
India, for nearly a decade, had been gradually shedding the rhetoric of strategic restraint, with its cycle of responses to major Pakistan-based terrorist attacks, including Uri in 2016, Balakot in 2019, and Pahalgam in 2025 revealing an unavoidable reality, renowned international analysts...
