Vadodara: Gujarat government would encourage industries engaged in manufacturing defence equipment, Chief Minister Narendra Modi said on Monday. "We want Gujarat to take lead in making country self sufficient in defence equipment manufacturing as currently even trucks needed for the Army are imported," Modi said. He said Gujarat would encourage setting up of units manufacturing defence equipment and would soon announce a policy to that effect. Referring to the textile...
03:41 AM, Sep 11, 2012
New Delhi: Defence Minister AK Antony on Tuesday said suicide by a jawan had led to "unrest" among troops of an Army unit deployed in Samba sector in Jammu and Kashmir. However, Army Chief Gen Bikram Singh had claimed that the two incidents were "not connected". Officers and jawans of the 16the Cavalry regiment were engaged in stand-off on August 8 in Samba sector soon after the jawan committed suicide....
06:21 PM, Sep 04, 2012
Islamabad: Officials in the Pakistani Prime Minister's office went into a tizzy after unidentified persons attempted to circulate an email purportedly containing the premier's message for Defence Day, exposing the lack of cyber security in the office's media arm. An email titled "Prime Minister's Message on Defence Day" was sent to scribes from the ID "pmmediaofficer@gmail.com", which is very similar to one of the IDs used by the premier's media...
03:38 PM, Sep 04, 2012
New Delhi: India and China will resume military exercises after a two year gap. That appeared to be the high point of Defence Minister AK Antony's meeting with his Chinese counterpart Gen Liang Guanglie on Tuesday. The details are expected to be formalised during the bilateral defence dialogue in November. India suspended all military exchanges in 2010 after China insisted on paper visas for a visiting Indian Army officer. Antony...
12:47 PM, Sep 04, 2012
New Delhi: The Defence Minister of India and China will meet in New Delhi on Tuesday seeking to revive bilateral military ties. Gen Liang Guanglie is the first Chinese Defence Minister to visit India since 2004. On the agenda are a wide range of issues including the border dispute. A day before the first meeting in eight years with a Defence Minister from China, Indian Defence Minister AK Antony told...
09:17 AM, Sep 04, 2012
New Delhi: Chinese Defence Minister Gen Liang Guanglie will have a packed schedule in India on Tuesday, but he will not be visiting Amar Jawan Jyoti, the war memorial for the unknown soldier, at India Gate, a customary stop for visiting defence ministers. He will hold talks with his Indian counterpart AK Antony and meet the heads of all services. Gen Liang is also expected to call on Prime Minister...
07:35 AM, Sep 04, 2012
New Delhi: Defence Ministers of India and China will hold talks here on Tuesday during which they are expected to take a decision on resuming the military exercises of their Armies stalled since 2010. During his talks with AK Antony, Gen Liang Guanglie, who has become the first Chinese Defence Minister to visit India in eight years, is expected to address New Delhi's concerns over Chinese military infrastructure build-up along...
04:21 AM, Sep 04, 2012
New Delhi: Faced with a resource crunch, the Defence Ministry will undertake a review next month of major military projects such as plans for acquiring 126 combat aircraft and raising a Strike Corps in the northeastern sector. The review will be carried out after an assessment is made on the performance of the economy at the end of the second quarter of this fiscal, Government sources said. The Defence Ministry...
03:34 AM, Sep 04, 2012
New Delhi: Three Tibetans were detained on Sunday afternoon when they tried to stage a protest outside the Chinese embassy in New Delhi to protest the visit of Defence Minister Gen Liang Guanglie. The protest was organised by 'Students for a Free Tibet' to highlight their demand for freedom of their homeland from China. Dorjee Tseten, a spokesperson for the organisation, said the three protesters burnt Chinese flag as part...
09:19 PM, Sep 02, 2012
New Delhi: India and China are expected to resume their bilateral military exercises from next year and a decision in this regard is likely to be taken during the five-day visit of Chinese Defence Minister Gen Liang Guanglie. During Gen Liang's visit starting Monday next week, the two sides will discuss about having more Confidence Building Measures (CBMs) and ways of strengthening their military ties, a senior official of the...
09:55 AM, Sep 02, 2012
New Delhi: Arms dealer Abhishek Verma faced fresh trouble on Wednesday with the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) slapping a case against him under the Official Secrets Act after Defence Ministry certified that the documents allegedly handed over by his US-based estranged business associate were classified. The CBI registered a case in the special court against Verma and unknown government officials after a formal complaint was received from the Defence...
05:15 PM, Aug 29, 2012
Chennai: Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa on Tuesday articulated Tamil Nadus collective political outrage over Union Minister of State for Defence M M Pallam Rajus assertion that Sri Lankan defence personnel would continue training in India, saying it smacked of total insensitivity. I am surprised to learn that the Government of India has openly declared that the said training will go on since Sri Lanka is a friendly country. This betrays...
10:38 AM, Aug 29, 2012
New Delhi: DMK Chief M Karunanidhi asked Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday to intervene on the issue of military training being provided to Sri Lankan defence personnel. Karunanidhi asked the MoS for Defence, MM Pallam Raju, to withdraw his statement and urged the Centre to send back the Lankan personnel from Ooty. The DMK chief said that no such training should happen on Indian soil. ...
02:35 PM, Aug 28, 2012
New Delhi: Addressing questions raised over the process of selecting Rafale fighter planes, Government is going ahead with the procurement of 126 French combat aircraft and effort is being made to complete the deal within this financial year. Contract negotiations for the multi-billion dollar deal will resume soon, Government sources said. Questions had been raised over the process by an MP besides some other quarters but a committee of independent...
05:43 AM, Aug 27, 2012
New Delhi: The CBI on Friday questioned suspended BEML Chairman and Managing Director VRS Natarajan in connection with alleged irregularities in procurement and supply of Tatra all-terrain trucks to the Army. CBI sources said Natarajan was grilled at the CBI headquarters in New Delhi for about five hours about issues that have surfaced during raids conducted by the agency at BEML facilities. The probe agency is trying to ascertain the...
11:23 PM, Aug 24, 2012
Mumbai: The judicial commission probing the Adarsh housing scam has summoned the son of accused former Congress MLC Kanhaiyalal Gidwani for not co-operating with the panel and not providing satisfactory answers to the questions presented by the probe officials. Accused Kanhaiyalal Gidwani and his family owns flats in the controversial housing society. The scam involves a prime plot in south Mumbai's Colaba on which a 31-storey building was constructed by...
09:47 AM, Aug 23, 2012
New Delhi: Seventy-two hours have passed but an armyman, who climbed a 200 ft mobile tower in the national capital four days back alleging harassment, remained defiant on Monday as he refused to come down insisting he should be allowed to meet Defence Minister A K Antony. K Muthu, who is attached with Engineers Regiment, climbed the tower at Ajmeri Gate at around 1 pm on Friday and refused to...
08:07 PM, Aug 20, 2012
New Delhi: Defence Minister AK Antony on Tuesday said corruption was a serious challenge which badly affected the morale of defence personnel and urged them to renew their pledge to work with honesty, fairness and transparency. In his customary address to the armed forces on the eve of Independence Day, Antony cautioned them against human rights violations in the fight against terrorism, saying it tarnished the image of the forces....
04:23 AM, Aug 15, 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
A top secret audit of DRDO reveals that financial sanctions are being split so that they don't have to go to higher authorities. ...
11:47 PM, Aug 13, 2012
