Defence general

05 Jul 2019

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

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

18 Jun 2019

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

10 Jun 2019

07 Jun 2019

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

21 May 2019

16 May 2019

15 May 2019

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

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

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

30 Apr 2019

Riyas Aboobacker, who was arrested from Kerala’s Palakkad district has admitted to plotting a similar attack in India after closely following the Sri Lankan terror mastermind Zaharan Hashim

29 Apr 2019

29 Apr 2019

The NIA, which is on the trail of ISIS recruitments from Kerala, raided the houses of four suspects in Kasargode and Palakkad after evidence emerged that the targets of their probe had persistently tailed Zahara Hashim, the main accused in Sri Lanka bombing, on social media

25 Apr 2019

25 Apr 2019

With President Maithripala Sirisena asking defence minister and the police chief to resign and vowing a complete clean-up of the administration, chances of the return of the once ousted Mahinda Rajapaksa seems to be a probability

24 Apr 2019

23 Apr 2019

22 Apr 2019

Police had received a tip-off of a possible attack on churches by a little-known domestic Islamist group, the National Thawheed Jama’ut, some 10 days ago, but Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said the authorities decided to ignore it

22 Apr 2019

While the terrorists are yet to be identified and an official explanation of the terror attack may take some time, the attack had all the trappings of the 2008 Mumbai terror strike

15 Apr 2019

Nirbhay, a long range, all-weather missile that can be launched from multiple platforms, will supplement the role played by Brahmos missile in due course by delivering warheads farther than Brahmos range of 450 km

02 Apr 2019

Reports citing an internal enquiry report by Bharat Electronics Ltd said the consultant, RD Konsultants, was paid Rs13.5 lakh to prepare the initial PPR but Rs15.94 crore for the DPR of all 10 Integrated Air Command and Control Systems and that the consultants’ status was wrongly verified by the chartered accountants