Bathinda Military Station: Search on to nab assailants behind killing of four Army soldiers"A soldier died of a gunshot wound at approximately 4:30 pm on April 12 at Bathinda Military Station. The soldier was on sentry duty with h...
13 Apr, 2023, 03.10 PM IST
Bathinda military station: Another Army man dies from bullet injuryHours after the killing of four army men inside the Bathinda military station in Punjab, another jawan reportedly died due to a bullet inju...
13 Apr, 2023, 12.39 PM IST
J&K police to procure 4,000 weapon safety systems to curb gun-snatching incidentsAccording to reports, over 200 weapons, including AK-47s, self-loading rifles (SLRs) and INSAS rifles besides a large number of ammunition ...
30 Jul, 2019, 04.48 PM IST
How AK-203, superior to INSAS, will end forces’ hunt for a reliable rifleThough the Indian military is considered among the top 5 in the world, it has been yearning for an all-weather assault rifle for quite some...
04 Mar, 2019, 04.54 PM IST
Central forces and special police units to get 36,000 modern AK assault riflesA stockpile of over 36,000 modern AK-series assault rifles have been recently provided to central paramilitary forces and select state poli...
04 Sep, 2018, 05.32 PM IST
No proposal to replace INSAS Rifles for central forces: GovernmentModernization of weapons to security forces is a continuous process as per operational requirement of the concerned security force, the Min...
15 Jul, 2018, 01.50 PM IST
Hunt on for new generation assault rifles; upgraded INSAS not a replacementDespite a four year process to select a new generation rifle to replace the glitch prone Indian-made INSAS, the Army is still not close to ...
15 Jul, 2018, 01.40 PM IST
INSAS rifles to retire; to be replaced by imported weaponsThe Indian Small Arms System (INSAS), which was inducted in the army 1988, is likely to be replaced with deadlier assault rifles of higher ...
14 Jul, 2018, 08.50 PM IST
INSAS rifles to retire; to be replaced by imported weaponsThe Indian Small Arms System (INSAS), which was inducted in the army 1988, is likely to be replaced with deadlier assault rifles of higher ...
14 Jul, 2018, 08.50 PM IST
Soldiers modify INSAS rifles as they await replacementsThe Army had last year scrapped a four-year-old tender for purchasing 1.8 lakh multi-calibre weapons to replace INSAS, which was inducted i...
14 Jul, 2018, 04.29 PM IST
Kashmir: 66 weapons, 7000 rounds looted post Burhan Wani's killingBurhan was killed in a gunbattle with security forces in Kokernag belt of South Kashmir which had led to widespread protests in the Valley.
13 Jul, 2018, 11.25 PM IST
Naxal ops: CRPF personnel to get AK rifles, force to move 2,000 more men in ChhattisgarhTo reduce the influence of Maoists in one of their last bastions, CRPF is moving a fresh contingent of 2,000 personnel in Chhattisgarh's so...
13 Jul, 2018, 02.32 PM IST
Army plans 'Request for Information' for single calibre assault rifleDefence sources also ruled out that the army has shortlisted any particular gun to replace the INSAS, which had entered service in the late...
11 Jul, 2018, 05.12 PM IST
Army inches closer to getting advanced assault rifles, carbines, machine gunsThe RFPs which also looks at meeting the requirements of the other defence services have been given to about 12 vendors, said sources.
23 Mar, 2018, 08.35 PM IST
OFB looks at replacing ageing INSAS rifles; to get 1.86 lakh 7.62-mm automatic riflesThe Army has sought approximately 8 lakh 7.62x51 mm assault rifles, out of which 72,000 rifles will be immediately purchased through global...
19 Mar, 2018, 07.38 PM IST
Anti-Naxal operations: CRPF prefers AK rifles to INSAS, bulk purchase on cardsField commanders of the force deployed in the anti-Naxal operations grid said they were increasingly sending the INSAS to the weapon repair...
04 May, 2014, 01.04 PM IST
- Indian Army's modernization drive gathers steam
Army's futuristic programme to transform its infantry soldiers into high-tech, self-contained killing machines is gathering some steam, aft...
24 Dec, 2011, 08.33 AM IST