Defence Production Secretary Raj Kumar said that in "addition to indigenisation, to give a push to 'Make in India', to seek substitute of i...

To promote indigenous defence manufacturing and reduce imports, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, last week, had announced that a list o...

The publication of a negative list will throw much-needed light on GoI’s plans for indigenisation. It will encourage the armed forces, weap...

On promoting indigenous defence production, the minister said budgetary provisions would be made for India-made defence products. But it is...

His reaction came after Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman unveiled a series of long-pending reforms for the defence sector which included...

India would also expand the list of weapons that can not be imported, the finance minister said.

As ET had earlier reported, the defence ministry has initiated a process to identify potential savings that can be made this year due to de...

“We are not expeditionary forces that have to deploy around the globe. We have to guard and fight only along our borders and, of course, do...

The Army has set the ball rolling for acquiring 6.5 lakh new assault rifles, with “reduced technical specifications”, under what will event...

The conference will focus on whether the Army should go in for a 5.56mm rifle, which generally incapacitates enemy soldiers, or a 7.62mm ri...

The only silver lining is that the "emergency revenue procurement" of 50,000 jackets, approved as an operational urgency by defence ministe...

The Army wants a man-portable drone which can operate at least 1,000-metre above ground level to ensure it cannot be shot down by enemy rif...

The RFI (request for information) for the new 7.62mm assault rifles is going to be issued soon to elicit responses from around the globe.

In September 2016, the Army was forced to re-launch its global hunt for new-generation 7.62 mm x 51 mm assault rifles to replace the glitch...

With Army lagging far behind IAF and Navy, General Bikram Singh has pressed the throttle hard to usher in several systemic procurement chan...

After going around in circles for several years, the much ballyhooed project to acquire 1,86,168 bulletproof jackets for the humble soldier...

French fighter Rafale has been knocked out of the race for the 'mother of all defence deals', the Rs 42,000 crore project to acquire 126 me...