The Essential Defence Services Ordinance (Edso) comes weeks after the Centre announced a radical overhaul of the OFB and is in anticipation...

The parliamentary committee said in its report that it concurred with the view of the defence ministry on the issue of OFB's corporatisatio...

Data analysed by the army shows that at least 403 accidents have taken place due to faulty ammunition since 2014, most of them suffered by ...

As part of the "Aatmanirbhar Bharat" (self-reliant India) initiative, the government had announced on May 16 that it would improve the auto...

The ministry will give the selected consulting firm six months to draw up a detailed plan and a further sixmonth period to implement the re...

In its present form, OFB has scant autonomy in administrative, financial or other decision-making matters. Once unshackled through corporat...

mjunction has signed a seven-year Operations & Maintenance contract with OFB to develop, deploy and maintain this e-procurement platform.

The OFB chairman said that it has exported two 52-calibre barrels to Swedish arms manufacturer Bofors AB, from which it had imported 155 mm...

According to the CAG report, which was tabled in the lower house recently, the OFB had supplied 52,369 numbers of the ammunition "K" worth ...

Officials said the proposal to convert OFB into one, or more than one, 100% government-owned corporate entity would enhance the OFB’s “func...

"Rumours being spread that OFB is being privatised are misguiding and with the intent to mislead workers," the ministry said in a statement.

The Army is upset with the OFB for huge slippages in supply and development of ammunition, apart from lack of quality control.

For the first time, OFB has conducted a conference for defence attaches with Indian embassies abroad to keep them updated on the products w...

Defence ministry officials told ET that the OFB, responsible for the production of boots and uniforms, has been inundated with complaints a...

We are creating added capacities in the production of T-90 tanks and Pinaka rockets at the various ordnance factories, S K Chowrasia, membe...

The cost of a new 155-mm artillery gun comes to around Rs 15 crore, while the upgradation has been done for just Rs one crore for each.

The Army has sought approximately 8 lakh 7.62x51 mm assault rifles, out of which 72,000 rifles will be immediately purchased through global...