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 ...

Kabul, Oct 17 (DPA) Three US soldiers were killed in bomb blasts, while Afghan and NATO forces killed 25 militants in Afghanistan's volatile southern and eastern regions, officials said Saturday. The two ...

Baghdad, Oct 17 (RIA Novosti) A military delegation from Iraq will visit Moscow soon to discuss the purchase of Russian weaponry, an Iraqi parliament member has said. "A large delegation from the Iraqi ...

New Delhi, Oct 16 (IANS) The Indian and Indonesian navies will undertake a two-week coordinated patrol along their international maritime boundary from Sunday to check piracy, poaching, drug trafficking and illegal immigration, ...

Jammu, Oct 16 (IANS) The Jammu and Kashmir government will connect the forested villages in the state through ropeways instead of roads to save the forests. At present, most of the hilly areas ...

New Delhi, Oct 15 (IANS) India and Russia have failed to reach agreement on the revised cost of the aircraft carrier Admiral Gorshkov that the Indian Navy has purchased and negotiations on ...

New Delhi, Oct 15 (IANS) India and Russia would be signing two deals to further strengthen bilateral defence cooperation during Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's visit to Moscow later this year, the ...

Taipei, Oct 15 (DPA) Taiwan has test-fired three types of missiles capable of hitting major cities in China, local media reported Wednesday. The test was conducted at the Chiupeng missile base in the ...

New Delhi, Oct 14 (IANS) India could face trouble on both the Pakistani and Chinese borders at the same time but it is not in a position to defend even one, former ...

Islamabad, Oct.14 (ANI): Pakistan has decided to discontinue all special concessions that US officials and diplomats used to enjoy at the Islamabad international airport. Following the Defence Ministry's order, all US officials ...

I. Ramamohan Rao New Delhi, Oct 14 (ANI): Speaking in Mumbai where he had gone to address an election rally, the Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh, said the Government of India "was ...

Islamabad, Oct 14 (IANS) Pakistan has restricted the hitherto unfettered movement of US and UN officials at the international airport here, citing misuse of the facility that was granted in the ...

Seoul, Oct 13 (DPA) North Korea Tuesday agreed to meet South Korea this week for talks, but was at the same time preparing new missile tests, South Korean media reports said. The two ...

Hamburg/Kabul, Oct 11 (DPA) German military pistols are being sold on the black market in Afghanistan and Pakistan, German NDR radio reported Sunday. Weapons belonging to a German shipment of 10,000 pistols intended ...