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Army chief Bipin Rawat likely to be first Chief of Defence Staff
16 Aug 2019
While there is some sort of a tri-service joint planning with a head quarters of the Integrated Defence Staff (IDS), the appointment of a CDS continued to be held in abeyance due of lack of consensus among the political leadership and the armed forces
DRDO successfully test-fires quick reaction air defence missile
05 Aug 2019
India is working to bolster its air defence system with several of such systems being developed indigenously while others like the S-400 air defence system, which is under procurement from Russia, is expected to be delivered in the second half of 2020
J&K’s Omar Abdulah, Mehbooba Mufti, Sajad Lone under house arrest
05 Aug 2019
The house arrests come after Mehbooba Mufti, Omar Abdullah and other leaders held a meeting and issued a resolution warning the government of "consequences" if it changed the special status of Jammu and Kashmir
Trump finds it hard to avoid Kashmir mediation, says he is still willing
02 Aug 2019
Trump’s repeat offer comes after India expressed ‘grave concern’ over US military assistance to Pakistan - the Pentagon last week notified the US Congress that it had decided to approve military sales of $125 million to Islamabad
ICJ stays Kulbhushan’s death penalty, directs case review
17 Jul 2019
The court order means that the death sentence remains suspended 'until Pakistan effectively reviews and reconsiders the conviction/sentence', even as India will get consular access to Jadhav
Hafiz Saeed, 2008 Mumbai attack mastermind, held in Pakistan
17 Jul 2019
Pakistani authorities decided to arrest the JuD chief only days before Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan's visit to Washington, where he will hold talks with President Donald Trump and, possibly, seek US help to ease Pakistan out of the "grey list" of the Financial Action Task Force
Trump, Pompeo pressure India on trade, defence ties
27 Jun 2019
US secretary of state Mike Pompeo, now on a visit to India, presented a list of demands, including stoppage of oil imports from Iran and Venezuela, abandoning S-400 air defence missile deal with Russia, keeping Huawei Technologies away and offering more freedom for religious groups
Navy deploys warships to secure Gulf of Oman for Indian vessels
21 Jun 2019
Besides deploying two warships in Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf the Navy is carrying out aerial surveillance and is also monitoring movement of vessels from its Information Fusion Centre at Gurgaon
Indo-Pacific co-operation: Pompeo says 'Modi hai to mumkin hai'
13 Jun 2019
Pompeo will travel to India as part of a four-nation tour that will take him to Sri Lanka, Japan and South Korea between 24 and 30 June, aimed at deepening the strategic Indo-Pacific partnership
Vandals demolish historical 'Guru Nanak Palace' in Pakistan's Punjab
28 May 2019
The four centuries-old building was demolished with the connivance of Auqaf authorities and, according to Dawn news, no government agency in Pakistan maintained any record about its legal status
DRDO successfully flight-tests drone for live-fire weapon tests
15 May 2019
Abhyas, which will be used to test surface-to-air as well as air-to-air weapon systems, including anti-aircraft weapons as well as anti-cruise missile and anti-ballistic missile systems, can also be used as a jammer platform
France wants India, Germany, Brazil and Japan as UNSC permanent members
08 May 2019
France strongly believed in “multilateralism and means that we are actively working to reform and in some respects to refound, reinvent multilateralism so that it is really efficient for the decades to come,” France’s permanent representative to the UN François Delattre told reporters at the UN headquarters
UNSC lists Masood Azhar as global terrorist after China lifts hold
02 May 2019
China relented after the France-US-UK trio moved the UNSC, where Beijing would have to publically explain its stand on its reservations on listing Azhar as a terrorist, when his group JeM has already been designated as terror outfit by UN
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