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Defence stocks HAL, Bharat Dynamics, others recover from 10% fall post budget jittersDefense stocks, both public and private, experienced sharp declines following the budget announcement, with PSU heavyweights like Hindustan...
From Galwan to 2024: How India's defence budget reflects strategic changesDefence Budget Expectations: India's defence budget from 2020 to 2024 reflects strategic recalibrations, geopolitical shifts, and economic ...
View: Creating air of certainty for services, defence budget and the way forwardIt is a fact that defence capital allocations have been steadily increasing over the past five years. In 2020-21, this was at an all-time h...
View: Why Sitharaman's budgetary allocation is unlikely to satisfy defence establishmentUnder Sitharaman’s leadership as defence minister before becoming FM, the armed forces had projected a combined shortfall of nearly Rs 1,12...
View: India’s security apparatus needs to dismantle silos to usher in jointnessIn view of the security challenges, India should optimise its huge defence expenditure by improving the teeth-to-tail ratio.
Amid Doklam row, MoD seeks additional Rs 20k crore for combat readiness of armed forcesThe armed forces, in fact, want the annual defence budget to progressively reach at least 2% of the GDP for their operational requirements
Crippling delays in arms procurement process: Defence ministry internal reportThe presentation prepared by junior defence minister Subhash Bhamre, says the procurement process is dogged by “multiple and diffused struc...
Defence Ministry struggles to spend capital funds budgeted for modernisation projectsThe Air Force has done well to spend more than 54% of the capital budget of Rs 33,657 cr earmarked for purchase of equipment and weapon sys...
Funds crunch hits military upgradeWhat makes matters worse is that the bulk of the capital outlay will be used to pay “committed liabilities“ of earlier arms contracts inste...
Budget 2016 expectations: An insight into the defence sectorThe ‘Make in India’ initiative that aims to revive manufacturing in the country and create a wave of job opportunities for the skilled as w...
In first year, Modi government cleared defence proposals worth Rs 1 lakh croreThe govt has also revived several long-pending mega projects, which were virtually stuck in files during A K Antony's eight years at the he...
Government draws Parliamentary panel fire on military modernisationOverall, the Army, Navy and IAF just got only 60%, 67% and 54% of the funds they had sought for modernization this fiscal.
A younger army: How India can move forward on defence reforms despite budgetary constraintsModi’s India fancies itself as a “net security provider” and a “leading power” that shapes rather than reacts to policies. But its key inst...
Funds to address critical shortfalls in Navy will be provided: Nirmala SitharamanSitharaman also assured naval commanders that the defence ministry is focussing on these issues and is implementing measures to mitigate th...
Full defence minister in a few weeks: Arun JaitleyComing as this did from the de facto No.2 in the Modi govt, it promptly sparked talk of a Cabinet expansion next month itself, with the pro...
India must integrate its service HQs with Ministry of DefenceUnder current rules, the chiefs carry the responsibility for their service, operational and administrative, but lack standing and authority...
- Defence Ministry goes 'soft' on China
India's defensive and ultra-cautious mindset towards China has now firmly made its way even to the normally hawkish environs of the Defence...