The CAG has pulled up the DRDO pointing out "deficiencies" and "procedural irregularities" committed by it in taking up new projects and splitting sanctions for them to bring it within financial powers of the organisation head. "Scrutiny of project sanctions issued by DRDO revealed procedural irregularities relating to misleading nomenclature of sanction issuing authorities, absence of data base of sanctions and splitting of sanctions," the CAG said in its report...
05:10 PM, Nov 29, 2012
The Defence Research and Development Organisation is planning to set up a long range missile testing centre at coastal Machilipatnam in Andhra Pradesh, a top official said in Hyderabad on Saturday. DRDO chief VK Saraswat said the organization has resolved issues with the Ministry of Petroleum as the area where the facility is likely to come up falls under Krishna-Godavari basin. ...
01:40 AM, Nov 25, 2012
Here at Geek at Large we like to follow the Defence Research and Development Organization's (DRDO's) ballistic missile defence program (BMD) rather closely. More than ...
10:20 PM, Nov 23, 2012
Balasore: India on Friday successfully tested its indigenously developed ballistic missile shield off the coast of Odisha and said it is readying to deploy the system in the National Capital Region for protection against hostile missiles. As part of the exercise, it test-fired a supersonic interceptor missile which destroyed a 'hostile' ballistic missile off the Odisha coast. "At around 1252 hours, the interceptor hit the target missile successfully at an...
04:20 PM, Nov 23, 2012
New Delhi: The Army troops deployed along the China border from Ladakh in Jammu and Kashmir and Arunachal Pradesh in northeast have reported more than 100 sightings of "Unidentified Flying Objects" (UFOs) in the last three months. Agencies including the Army, DRDO, NTRO and the ITBP have not yet been able to identify these luminous flying objects. The 14 Corps, which looks after military deployment along Kargil-Leh and looks after...
08:38 PM, Nov 06, 2012
Bangalore: Several key government websites were hacked late on Wednesday night. These included the websites of DRDO and five other government departments hacked. A site hosted by the advisor to the Prime Minister was also hacked. Algeria-based hackers have been blamed for the hacking. The message pasted on the websites after they had been compromised read: 'SanFour25, Algerian Hackers' minutes after the hacking. The biggest hack was on the site...
02:37 PM, Nov 01, 2012
New Delhi: Defence Minister AK Antony on Friday called for reducing India's over-dependence on defence imports and bolstering research and development capabilities. Speaking to officials of Ordnance Factory Board (OFB) and defence public sector undertakings (DPSUs), Antony asked them to make sincere and sustained efforts to reduce the dependence on imports to the maximum extent possible. "While in the era of globalisation, it is not possible to completely do away...
12:58 PM, Oct 06, 2012
New Delhi: Defence Minister AK Antony on Friday called for reducing India's over-dependence on defence imports and bolstering research and development capabilities. Speaking to officials of Ordnance Factory Board (OFB) and defence public sector undertakings (DPSUs), Antony asked them to make sincere and sustained efforts to reduce the dependence on imports to the maximum extent possible. "While in the era of globalisation, it is not possible to completely do away...
12:58 AM, Oct 06, 2012
Balasore: India successfully test-fired nuclear capable Dhanush, the naval version of Prithvi short-range ballistic missile, from a warship off Odisha coast on Friday. The indigenously developed naval version of the Prithvi short-range ballistic missile has a strike range of up to 350 km and can carry 500 kg of conventional or nuclear warhead, a DRDO official said. "Dhanush was test-fired from a naval ship off Odisha coast at around 1125...
12:38 PM, Oct 05, 2012
Balasore: India on Thursday test-fired its nuclear-capable Prithvi-II ballistic missile with a strike range of 350 km from a test range near Balasore as part of a user trial by the Army. "The flight test of the surface-to-surface missile was conducted at around 0907 hrs from a mobile launcher from Integrated Test Range's launch complex-III at Chandipur," defence sources said. The state-of-the-art Prithvi is the first ballistic missile developed under...
10:05 AM, Oct 04, 2012
New Delhi: Aiming to meet requirements of fresh meat and dairy products for soldiers deployed in high altitude areas, a DRDO lab has developed hybrid varieties of animals which can sustain the low temperatures of Ladakh and similar locations in the Himalayan region. The animals - cows, goats and mules - have been developed by Leh-based Defence Institute of High Altitude Research (DIHAR). "Earlier soldiers were using packaged milk and...
02:39 AM, Oct 03, 2012
New Delhi: Defence Minister AK Antony on Monday indicated that India will first "stabilise" its present missile programmes before thinking of starting any project for having capabilities to strike targets at longer distances than the 5,500 km-range Agni-V. "Don't be impatient. Let the present Agni series stabilise," he said when asked if India was working on any programme such as Agni-VI after the success of 5,500 km-plus range Agni-V earlier...
08:34 PM, Oct 01, 2012
Bangalore: India will soon join the elite group of countries by flying its own airborne radar for surveillance to detect enemy fighters and cruise missiles, as also track troop build-up on the ground. "We will start flying the indigenous Airborne Early Warning and Control System (AEW&CS) soon after its integration with the Brazilian Embraer jet for trials and induction in our fleet by April 2014," Chief of Air Staff NAK...
12:51 AM, Sep 21, 2012
Balasore: India on Wednesday test-fired its nuclear-capable strategic missile Agni-IV with a strike range of about 4000 km from a test range off Odisha coast. It was test launched with the help of a mobile launcher from launch complex-4 of ITR at Wheeler Island, about 100 km from Balasore, at about 1145 hours, defence sources said. A high performance on-board computer with distributed avionics architecture and high speed reliable communication...
01:23 PM, Sep 19, 2012
New Delhi: The Defence Ministry is planning to cancel the BEML order, worth over Rs 50 lakh, given to UK-based Tatra Sipox for supplying one truck, in the wake of the CBI probe into the allegations of irregularities in the supply of these vehicles. The order for the truck was placed by BEML in May for the Defence Research and Development Organisation. The Ministry is planing to cancel the order...
03:51 AM, Sep 17, 2012
Bangalore: The 11 terror suspects arrested on Wednesday by the Bangalore Police were on Friday sent to 14-days police custody. The profile of the accused who were arrested for alleged terror links with LeT and HuJI has shocked all. Those arrested included a DRDO engineer and a journalist from a popular English daily. Another was an MBA student. Sources say the journalist had been working for over two years in...
03:46 PM, Aug 31, 2012
Bangalore: The father of one of the 11 men arrested by the Bangalore Police on Wednesday on charges of having links with terror groups Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) and the HuJI and plotting attacks on MPs, MLAs and journalists, has said that the family wasn't informed his arrest. The man worked as an engineer at the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO). "We didn't get any message of his arrest. The police...
08:25 AM, Aug 31, 2012
New Delhi: The long-delayed Nag anti-tank missile project of the DRDO has suffered yet another setback as its user trials held recently failed. In the trials held in Rajasthan in presence of senior Lt Gen-rank officers from the Army and top DRDO officials, the modified carrier of the missile called NAMICA also under-performed, DRDO sources told PTI. In the trials held at the Mahajan firing range, four Nag missiles were...
11:54 AM, Aug 19, 2012
A top secret audit of DRDO ordered by Defence Minister AK Antony himself has revealed that the country's premier body for defence research has allegedly spent crores of rupees on technology without any positive outcome. ...
08:01 AM, Aug 14, 2012
Baba Ramdev on Monday defied the Delhi Police and remained non-committal on ending his fast. Police probe underworld link in Mumbai violence. ...
11:58 PM, Aug 13, 2012
