Chief of the Army Staff, General Upendra Dwivedi, on Friday said the GST reforms will give our defence corridors a major boost, as we can now make greater investments and expect better results. In a major boost to the defence sector, the Goods and Services Tax (GST) on several weapons, military...
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The Indian Army on Thursday said it has hosted an annual briefing here for defence attaches of foreign countries posted in India to discuss contemporary issues affecting global peace and security, and New Delhi’s perspective on those.
The interaction was held at the Manekshaw Centre at Delhi...
Army Chief Gen Upendra Dwivedi on Friday released a book on Operation Sindoor and underlined that it delves into the political clarity, interpretation of “full freedom” which was given to the armed forces, and the setting up of politico-military objectives for the decisive action.
The book...
The unresolved boundary dispute with China was the biggest national security challenge followed by Pakistan’s proxy war and its strategy of “bleeding India by a thousand cuts”, Chief of Defence Staff Gen Anil Chauhan said on Friday.
The top military official identified regional instability and...
Bonnie Glaser, the Managing Director of the Indo-Pacific Programme at German Marshall Fund, a think-tank, has warned that the current US strategy of “publicly delivering instructions to India” about its foreign policy choices is unlikely to “deliver the desired results”.
In an exclusive...
India on Friday rejected as “inaccurate and misleading” White House Trade adviser Peter Navarro’s recent comments on New Delhi for its procurement of Russian crude oil. “We have seen the inaccurate and misleading statements made by Navarro, and obviously reject them,” External Affairs Ministry...
India's domestically developed Light Combat Aircraft (LCA), the Tejas Mk-1A, is scheduled to undergo a crucial phase of full weapons integration trials this month.
Following the positive results from earlier limited tests, this next stage will involve firing a range of advanced missiles...
The Defence Research & Development Organisation (DRDO) has transferred three advanced materials technologies to industry partners, the defence ministry said on Thursday. Secretary, Department of Defence R&D and Chairman, DRDO, Samir V Kamat recently handed over the Licensing Agreement for...
Russian President Vladimir Putin has reprimanded his US counterpart Donald Trump for attempting to exert colonial-era pressure tactics on leaders of powerful economies like India and China, saying that is not the way to deal with the partners.
Powerful economies like India and China, with heavy...
Two prominent Kuki-Zo groups on Thursday signed a suspension of operations agreement with the government on re-negotiated terms and conditions under which they agreed on maintaining territorial integrity of Manipur, relocating designated camps away from vulnerable areas and working for a...
President Donald Trump had a very good personal relationship with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, but “that’s gone now”, US’ former National Security Adviser John Bolton has said, cautioning that close ties with the American leader “won’t protect” world leaders from the “worst”.
Bolton’s remarks...
The thaw in Indo-China relations is emerging as one of the most intriguing developments in Asian geopolitics. For nearly five years, ties between the two civilizational giants were defined largely by mistrust, recrimination, and a sharp decline in engagement.
The Galwan clash of 2020 was not...
Mukesh Aghi, President and CEO of the US-India Strategic Partnership Forum (USISPF), believes that “trust has broken” between New Delhi and Washington as bilateral trade tensions continue to persist. In an exclusive interview with IANS in Washington, Aghi said that the “sentiment in Delhi is of...
