Indian Navy

Missile destroyer INS Chennai inducted into Indian Navy
21 Nov 2016
Armed with supersonic surface-to-surface ‘BrahMos’ missiles and ‘Barak-8’ long-range surface-to-air missiles as also hull mounted sonars and heavyweight torpedo and rocket launchers, the Rs4,000-cr INS Chenni is a formidable force
DRDO develops 4 naval systems for Indian Navy
18 Nov 2016

India to push $1.65 bn amphibious plane deal with Japan
05 Nov 2016
India plans to acquire a dozen of these planes that can be used by the Indian Navy and the Coast Guard

India to acquire 2nd Akula 2-class nuclear sub from Russia
19 Oct 2016
India is acquiring a second Akula 2 nuclear-powered attack submarine from Russia at a cost reported to be close to $2 billion

China, Russia launch war games in South China Sea
12 Sep 2016
Russia has been the only major country to come out in support of China, which continues to defy an award of an arbitration panel in The Hague that invalidated China’s claims to virtually the entire South China Sea

DCNS gets court order against publishing further Scorpene leaks
30 Aug 2016
Seeking to prevent further publication of information regarding confidential data on the Scorpene submarine that could harm the Indian Navy, French defence contractor DCNS has won a temporary legal reprieve

DCNS may go to court against publication of Scorpene leaks
29 Aug 2016
DCNS, which is at the centre of a global submarine data leak scandal, wants to prevent The Australian newspaper, from releasing any more confidential data that may harm the Indian Navy

Worried Australia warns DCNS after Scorpene leak in India
26 Aug 2016
Australian defence officials have warned French naval contractor DCNS to beef up security in Australia, where it is preparing to build a fleet of submarines worth $38 billion

France’s DCNS probing Scorpene leak, blames competition
25 Aug 2016
French shipbuilder DCNS said today it is investigating the leak of 22,500 pages of data on the six Scorpene submarines that it is building in Mumbai for the Indian Navy
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The life and times of Manmohan Singh, former Prime Minister of India
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On 27th December 2024 India and the world lost one of their finest statespersons in a hundred years. Manmohan Singh, born on 26th September 1932, in Gah, Punjab (now in Pakistan)

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