NATIONAL After protests, government agrees to restore earlier sugarcane pricing - Moved at 1630, Lead to move by 1815 Day after: police don't acknowledge vandalism by farmers - Lead moved at 1719 Manmohan's ...

New Delhi, Nov 20 (IANS) The defence ministry has in principle approved the purchase of US firm Boeing's C-17 heavy lift aircraft for the Indian Air Force (IAF), which is hoping ...

New Delhi, Nov 19 (IANS) The government Thursday discussed the issue of allocation of third generation (3G) spectrum as well vacation of airwaves by the defence ministry for commercial use, but ...

New Delhi, Nov 19 (ANI): An Empowered Group of Ministers (EGoM) will meet today to evaluate the development on the auction of 3G mobile licenses, and differences that have arisen between ...

Srinagar, Nov 16 (ANI): Two soldiers were killed while foiling an infiltration bid by militants from across the border in Keran sector in Kupwara district on Kashmir Valley early on Monday. According to ...

Singapore, Nov 15 (EFE) Peruvian President Alan Garcia will cut short his visit to the Asia- Pacific Economic Cooperation summit here to deal with an espionage case back home allegedly involving Chile. Garcia ...

By Ritu Sharma New Delhi, Nov 12 (IANS) The Indian Army is grappling with an acute shortage of officers. Despite the recession, it has been unable to attract more talent and contain their ...

New Delhi, Nov 11 (IANS) The Delhi High Court Wednesday issued notices to the defence ministry and the directorate general of military training for alleged bias against disabled children in admission to ...

New Delhi, Nov 11 (IANS) The union home ministry put its disaster management teams on alert in Maharashtra and Gujarat to meet any eventuality as Cyclone Phyan crossed India's west coast and ...

New Delhi, Nov. 11 (ANI): The Indian Army is set to procure over 100 Armoured Personnel Carriers (APCs), which would be deployed in different kinds of terrains. The Army has initiated the ...

Seoul, Nov 10 (DPA) Warships belonging to North and South Korea clashed off their west coasts Tuesday, a spokesman for the defence ministry in Seoul said, adding that it remained unclear whether ...

New Delhi, Nov 9 (IANS) Defence Minister A.K. Antony, who is on his maiden visit to Japan, Monday met his Japanese counterpart Toshimi Kitazawa and in a joint statement said the two ...

London, Nov. 7 (ANI): If Britain fails to make any progress in the Afghanistan war, the reputation and long-term future of its Armed forces will be at risk, two top defence ...

Sana'a (Yemen), Nov 6 (DPA) Saudi air force jets resumed shelling positions of Shia rebels on the country's southwestern border with Yemen for the third day Friday, the rebel group said in ...

New Delhi, Nov 6 (IANS) Anti-piracy operations in the Gulf of Aden and a review of defence ties will be among the topics on the anvil when Indian Defence Minister A.K. Antony ...

New Delhi, Nov 5 (IANS) Jarnail Singh, the Sikh journalist who created headlines for throwing a shoe at Home Minister P. Chidambaram for the injustice committed towards the victims of the ...

New Delhi, Nov 3 (IANS) Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee Tuesday said he hoped the ministries of defence and communications and IT would reach a consensus on vacation of third generation (3G) ...

New Delhi, Nov 3 (IANS) The Coast Guard will commission a new station at Karwar in Karnataka Wednesday to beef up maritime security along the country's western coast, a defence ministry official ...

New Delhi, Nov 3 (IANS) India needs to be on guard against the spillover of terrorism from the Afghanistan-Pakistan region, Indian Army Chief General Deepak Kapoor said Tuesday. "The whole region (Afghanistan-Pakistan) is ...

Taipei, Nov 2 (DPA) Taiwan's air force Monday ruled out an act of sabotage or human error for an incident in which a presidential plane carrying President Ma Ying-jeou had braking trouble ...

Moscow, Nov 1 (RIA Novosti) A Russian nuclear submarine has successfully test-fired a ballistic missile, authorities said Sunday. "On Nov 1, the Northern Fleet's nuclear-powered missile-carrying submarine, Bryansk, successfully test-launched an intercontinental ballistic ...

New Delhi, Oct 30 (IANS) The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) Friday asked the central government to pay Rs.500,000 in compensation to the family of a man in Assam who died after ...

New Delhi, Oct 29 (IANS) The defence ministry Thursday ordered an inquiry into an alleged land scam in Darjeeling in West Bengal involving two lieutenant generals - including the designated deputy chief ...

New Delhi, Oct 29 (IANS) With an eye to the indigenisation of India's defence industry, the new defence procurement procedure (DPP) would have a new category of "Buy and Make (Indian)" under ...

New Delhi, Oct 27 (IANS) Under the revised defence procurement policy (DPP) 2009, request for proposal (RFP), which was earlier issued only to foreign companies, would now also be issued to Indian ...

Poonch (Jammu and Kashmir) Oct 24 (ANI): Pakistani troops opened fire in Poonch sector across the Line of Control (LoC) on Saturday injuring an Indian soldier. According to Defence Ministry sources, Pakistani ...

Jalpaiguri, Oct 23 (ANI): An Indian Air Force (IAF) MiG 27 aircraft crashed near New Jalpaiguri about 16 kilometers West of the Hashimara Air Force Base on Friday. According to a Defence Ministry ...

Jammu, Oct 21 (IANS) Minister of State for Communications and Information Technology Sachin Pilot Wednesday ruled out the possibility of disconnecting pre-paid mobile phone connections in Jammu and Kashmir in the ...

New Delhi, Oct 20 (IANS) The Army commanders conference beginning Wednesday would review operational preparedness of the one million strong force as well security situation in the country and the neighbouring states, ...

Islamabad, Oct. 20 (ANI): The Auditor General of Pakistan (AGP) has found massive irregularities worth 145.962 billion rupees in the accounts of the Pakistani Defence Ministry. According to its report, the original budget ...