Cabinet cleared a Rs 2900-crore deal to give IAF a basic trainer that could save men and machines in the force. ...
10:36 PM, May 10, 2012
New Delhi: The Cabinet Committee on Security on Thursday cleared the Indian Air Force trainer jets deal, which has been a major IAF requirement. The government cleared the Rs 2900-crore worth deal to procure 75 Pilatus basic aircraft trainer for IAF. The meeting was chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. The lack of a basic trainer since 2009 has been a serious setback in pilot training. Although the Swiss Pilatus...
09:20 PM, May 10, 2012
New Delhi: The Cabinet on Thursday cleared the Women Protection Bill. The new bill is aimed to protect women against sexual harassment at workplace. The new law will cover all women staff including domestic help. According to the Women Protection Bill, workplaces will have a panel for redressal of complaints. In a major decision in the Cabinet Committee meeting, according to sources, the clause that allowed the accused to prove...
07:59 PM, May 10, 2012
New Delhi: The Cabinet Committee on Security is expected to clear a major air force requirement for a basic trainer. The lack of a basic trainer since 2009 has seriously setback pilot training. Although the Swiss Pilatus was selected last year, a competing Korean aircraft maker objected setting off a vicious dogfight. Which Air Force has the dubious distinction of crashing 55 per cent of its frontline MiG fleet -...
06:38 PM, May 10, 2012
Pune: A case was booked at the Vishrantwadi police station on Monday against a person, who posed as chairman and managing director of a fictitious share broking firm and allegedly cheated an Air Force officer of Rs 41 lakh, under the pretext of hefty returns on investments. Ankur alias Ankush Shrivastava was arrested in 2010 by the Kondhawa jurisdictional police for allegedly using the Indian emblem, a beacon and a...
10:39 AM, May 08, 2012
Bangalore: Increasing Talibanisation of Pakistan and shifting of terror focus from Af-Pak region would pose a serious security threat to India in the next two years, Chief of Air Staff Air Chief Marshal NAK Browne said in Bangalore on Saturday. "If the American troops and the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) withdraw from Afghanistan as planned, 2013-14 are going to be crucial watershed years for India as far as the...
07:59 AM, Apr 29, 2012
Indian Air Force chief NAK Browne said the terror outfit is getting closer to Wagah border in Amritsar. ...
11:40 PM, Apr 28, 2012
Bangalore: Effects of instability in Pakistan and Afghanistan will be felt in India and the next two years are crucial watershed years for the country's security, Air Chief Marshal NAK Browne said on Saturday. "2013 and 2014 are crucial watershed years as far as India's security is concerned in the backdrop of instability writ large in Afghanisthan and Pakistan," he said delivering Air Chief Marshal LM Khatre Memorial lecture here....
09:09 PM, Apr 28, 2012
The test of Agni-V not only demonstrates India's technological capability, but also the intent to deter real and potential adversaries. ...
01:19 AM, Apr 20, 2012
New Delhi: Agni-V, the 5000-km range surface-to-surface Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) capable of carrying multiple nuclear warheads, has catapulted India into an extremely select club of countries possessing such a deadly weapons platform. Agni-V gives India the much-needed muscle and a strong deterrence against its nuclear-armed adversaries as the missile can not only target every city of China, but is also capable of reaching Australia, Eastern Europe, North Eastern and...
05:04 PM, Apr 19, 2012
New Delhi: The Indian Air Force is facing "critical deficiency" of trainer aircraft and simulators, fighter squadrons are depleting and some airfields do not have certain landing facilities, a Parliamentary panel has been informed. The IAF has 34 fighter squadrons against the sanctioned strength of 42 squadrons and the number is likely to reduce further to 31 during the 12th plan period, the parliamentary Standing Committee on Defence was told...
01:40 AM, Apr 16, 2012
New Delhi: The Indian navy and air force have put their warships and aircraft on a state of high alert for carrying out relief and rescue operations in the event of any possible post-quake tsunami situation. The IAF has put two C-130J Hercules aircraft on 'Hot Stand-by mode' at the Hindon air base with 80 National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) and will be flying for Port Blair with 10 tonnes...
06:47 PM, Apr 11, 2012
New Delhi: The Indian Air Force has now decided to deploy its additional six C-130J Super Hercules transport aircraft at Panagarh in West Bengal, the likely location of a proposed Army Mountain Corps headquarter and not in Odisha. The IAF was earlier planning to deploy the six aircraft in Charbatia in Odisha and an announcement in this regard was made by IAF in a press conference on October 3. "We...
06:10 PM, Apr 05, 2012
New Delhi: US defence major Lockheed Martin has bagged a deal expected to be worth over Rs 100 crore for supplying laser-guided bombs (LGBs) for the Jaguar fighter aircraft fleet in the Indian Air Force (IAF). The IAF plans to induct more than 100 bunker-buster LGBs for its Jaguar warplanes to destroy strongly fortified enemy targets. "We have emerged as the lowest bidders in the deal for supplying LGBs to...
09:40 AM, Apr 04, 2012
Exactly on April 3, 28 years back, IAF Squadron Leader Rakesh Sharma strapped himself inside a Soyuz T-11 mission capsule. As the rocket, essentially a gigantic intercontinental ballistic missile, carrying the 6850-kg spacecraft, blasted off from its launch pad in Baikonur in Kazakhstan, Sharma became the first Indian cosmonaut, the first Indian in space. Born on January 13, 1949, in Patiala, Punjab, to Hindu Gaur parents, Sharma joined the Indian...
12:22 AM, Apr 03, 2012
Chandigarh: A leopard has been stuck in a 75-feet long cable-carrying pipe underneath the IAF runway here for the past 11 days. Forest officials said frantic efforts were on in a bid to free the big cat stuck in the underground pipe at the Indian Air Force station's subsidiary runway in Chandigarh. Officials from the nearby Chhatbir Zoological Park on Thursday laboured hard for new methods to rescue the animal...
12:37 AM, Mar 23, 2012
New Delhi: The Indian Air Force has lost 33 fighter aircraft, including three Sukhoi-30MKI, in mishaps since 2008 and 26 defence personnel were killed in these crashes, the Lok Sabha was informed on Monday. "During last three years-2008-2011, and current year up to March, 33 fighter aircraft including one Jaguar, two Mirage-2000, three Sukhoi-30 and 27 MiG-series and 10 helicopters have crashed," Defence Minister AK Antony said in a written...
03:13 PM, Mar 19, 2012
Chennai: An Indian Air Force (IAF) trainee has been reported missing for the past five days from a training centre in the Muthapudupet police limits in Chenna, police said. According to police, Gaurav Ifridhi (21) from Chera district, Uttarakhand, who was training at the IAF station at Avadi since July 2011, went missing on Sunday and Aishwarya, training incharge officer, lodged a complaint with the police on Monday. Police sources...
08:44 AM, Mar 17, 2012
Jammu: The Jammu and Kashmir government on Monday said that the Indian Air Force (IAF) was planning to convert Kargil airport into a full-fledged air force base in the state. "Indian Air Force is planning to convert Kargil airport into a full-fledged air force base in Jammu and Kashmir," state Finance Minister Abdul Rahim Rather told the legislative Assembly in reply to a query of PDP member Peerzada Mansoor Hussain....
05:48 PM, Mar 12, 2012
New Delhi: A Mirage 2000 fighter plane of the Indian Air Force (IAF) crashed near a village in Rajasthan's Sawai Madhopur district on Monday, soon after taking off from an airbase in Gwalior, in a second mishap involving the aircraft type in 11 days. The pilot managed to eject safely, IAF officials said. This is the second crash involving a Mirage-2000 aircraft since February 24. "The crash took place 100...
02:19 PM, Mar 05, 2012
