In the last few years, the government has been focusing on enhancing road networks along the country's nearly 3,500 KM border with China.

“The minister cleared the proposal by the engineer-in-chief of MES, in line with the Shekatkar Committee recommendation to restructure the ...

Under Sitharaman’s leadership as defence minister before becoming FM, the armed forces had projected a combined shortfall of nearly Rs 1,12...

The armed forces certainly need more money to plug their critical shortages.

The 'vanila price' (just of the aircraft alone) will cost about 91 million Euros each for a single seater and about 94 million Euros for a ...

The defence ministry had constituted a committee under Lt Gen DB Shekatkar to recommend measures for enhancing combat capability and rebala...

Days after the face-off ended, Bipin Rawat had said China has started "flexing its muscles" and warned that the situation in India's northe...

"India and Vietnam share a strategic partnership. Defence cooperation, including supply of defence equipment, is an important aspect of thi...

Gen Rawat said the new model is expected to fast track Army's modernisation plan as it will bring new technologies and help implement major...

The permanent chairman, CoSC will be a four-star officer, who will be equivalent to chiefs of army, airforce and navy. He would look into j...

"The committee will hold its first meeting with defence minister Manohar Parrikar once he returns from his May 20-23 trip to Oman and UAE,”...

Army officials said 58 military stations have already been identified as part of the pilot project to implement the ambitious initiative.

The reforms in Army will involve redeployment and restructuring of approximately 57,000 posts of officers, junior commissioned officers and...

A roadmap is being made for this and it is likely to be implemented by the end of 2019. A high-level meeting of the army was held last mont...

The idea behind the reform initiative was to bring down the age of commands at all levels and ensure deploying the "right person for the ri...

70-80% of the capital outlay every year goes for “committed liabilities or installments” for deals inked earlier, leaving very little for n...

In the last year's Budget, defence spending received the smallest chunk of 12.22 per cent out of total budget outlay in the last two decade...