Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Saturday unveiled a new indigenous fighter jet, media reports said. Iran's advancement in military sector does not aim at "expansionism and violating others' rights", however, it will be utilized for "defensive and deterrence" purposes, Ahmadinejad was quoted as saying by semi-official ISNA news agency in a ceremony held in Tehran. ...
09:42 AM, Feb 03, 2013
Developed by IT major Tech Mahindra, 'FightTBacK' was initially developed for inhouse use. The company made it publicly available from its website for free after the Delhi gangrape. ...
02:48 PM, Feb 01, 2013
The armed forces may have to trim some of their ambitious weapons procurement plans after indications that the defence budget could be cut by around four to five per cent if not more, as part of Finance Minister P Chidambaram's plans to lower the deficit. ...
11:31 AM, Feb 01, 2013
The Indian tricolour, which was hoisted in 1947 at the 17th century British centre of power, Fort St George, in Chennai on the declaration of India's independence, will be on display at the special gallery in the Fort Museum. The special gallery will be inaugurated on January 26. ...
12:13 PM, Jan 23, 2013
A woman allegedly killed her husband by hitting him with a cricket bat here over a domestic issue, police said on Monday. In a fit of rage on Sunday, Sandhya hit her cancer patient husband Shashikant Balkrishna Marchande with a cricket bat following which he collapsed and died on the spot, they said. ...
03:31 PM, Jan 21, 2013
India and the US have finalised a Rs 3000-crore deal for supplying 99 jet engines to be used in the indigenous Light Combat Aircraft 'Tejas' being developed by the DRDO. Around two years ago, India had selected the American company General Electric over its rival European Eurojet 2000 for the LCA Mark II programme expected to be ready around 2014-15. ...
04:41 AM, Jan 21, 2013
A veteran Islamist fighter claimed responsibility on behalf of al Qaeda for the Algerian hostage crisis, a regional website reported on Sunday, tying the bloody desert siege to France's intervention across the Sahara in Mali. ...
01:21 AM, Jan 21, 2013
The West Bengal government on Saturday announced that allowances introduced by the erstwhile Left Front government for those who suffered during the Naxalite uprising in 1970s, would be discontinued. "Allowances given to political sufferers will be discontinued from now," Finance minister Amit Mitra said about the category 'political sufferers on post-Independent democratic movement' introduced by the Left government. ...
05:27 PM, Jan 19, 2013
Deep inside caves, in remote desert bases, in the escarpments and cliff faces of northern Mali, Islamic fighters are burrowing into the earth, erecting a formidable set of defenses to protect what has essentially become Al Qaeda's new country. ...
09:01 AM, Jan 01, 2013
Russian President Vladimir Putin hopes to conclude deals on the sale of fighter jets and aircraft engines to India next week which could be worth more than $7.5 billion. ...
12:22 PM, Dec 20, 2012
Russian President Vladimir Putin hopes to conclude deals on the sale of fighter jets and aircraft engines to India next week which could be worth more than $7.5 billion, defence industry sources said on Wednesday. Putin, who visits India on Monday, has his sights set on selling 42 Sukhoi SU-30MKI fighters and on the long-term supply of 970 warplane engines, one of the sources said. ...
11:00 PM, Dec 19, 2012
Chinese planes have allegedly entered disputed airspace over disputed islands in the East China Sea. ...
02:36 PM, Dec 13, 2012
A 21-year-old youth was stabbed to death outside his house following a heated argument with his neighbour over their families' children playing in proximity to their homes, police said Wednesday. "Sanjay Dayal, who lived with family at Bhagirathi Vihar in east Delhi, was found in an unconscious state outside his house with a stab wound on chest around 10 pm on Tuesday," said a police officer. ...
11:04 PM, Dec 12, 2012
Russia has delivered the first three upgraded MiG-29UPG fighter jets to India under a USD 900 million contract to modernise the ageing fleet of MiG-29 aircraft with the IAF, the MIG corporation has announced. "The MiG corporation has started deliveries of upgraded MiG-29UPG fighter jets to the Indian Air Force," the company said in a statement. ...
08:45 PM, Dec 11, 2012
Ruling Trinamool Congress MLAs were involved in a fistfight with their Left Front counterparts inside the West Bengal Assembly on Tuesday. ...
02:14 PM, Dec 11, 2012
Brad Pitt, who will turn 49 in December, is increasingly preoccupied with the passage of time and the thought that his rarefied place in movies is fleeting. ...
04:26 PM, Nov 29, 2012
A natural gas explosion in one of New England's biggest cities on Friday leveled a strip club with a boom heard for miles and heavily damaged a dozen other buildings but didn't kill anyone, authorities said. ...
04:53 PM, Nov 24, 2012
Gaza City: Israel and Gaza's Hamas rulers traded fire and tough cease-fire proposals on Monday, and threatened to escalate their border conflict if diplomacy fails. No deal appeared near. An Israeli airstrike targeting a Gaza media center killed a senior militant and engulfed the building in flames, while Gaza fighters fired 95 rockets at Israel, nearly one-third of them intercepted by an Israeli missile shield. A total of 38 Palestinians...
05:10 AM, Nov 20, 2012
Israeli aircraft struck crowded areas in the Gaza Strip and killed a senior militant with a missile strike on a media center on Monday. ...
11:50 PM, Nov 19, 2012
