Tejas fighter planes: On Wednesday, India took one of the key decisions to strengthen its defences, by providing a go-ahead for the acquisition of Tejas fighter plane’s deal worth about Rs 48,000 crore. The deal for 83 Tejas Light Combat Aircraft, to be purchased by the Indian Air Force, was approved by Cabinet Committee on ...

Taliban Sanction Committee: Post a visit by the group negotiator of Taliban to Pakistan, India has firmed up its decision to chair a Taliban sanction committee; also known as the 1988 sanctions committee.  Video grabs were unearth showing a Taliban delegation led by Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar visiting terror training camps on Pakistani soil and ...

Modi’s foreign policy initiatives: Pranab Mukherjee in his new book titled ‘The Presidential Years: 2012-2017’, which also happens to be the fourth volume of his autobiography, shares his perspective over Narendra Modi’s administration. The former President of India commended Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his handling of the country’s foreign policy affairs without any ...

The Chinese BRI: In its attempt to show retaliation against China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), India did not attend a meeting with the other members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO). The Centre has been opposing it because a large part of the BRI runs through the Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK).  BRI or the ...

Anti-drone system: Indian armed forces are going to get DRDO-made anti-drone systems to tackle potential aerial threat  The Defence Research and Development Organization (DRDO) has deputed state-owned aerospace and defence company Bharat Electronics as its leading agency to develop and manufacture the anti-drone system for the armed forces in India.  The DRDO has been successful ...

Pakistani UN Showoff: The Pakistani UN representative Munir Akram recently tried to defame India by sharing a dossier alleging India’s involvement in acts of terrorism at a UN meeting. The same was met with a harsh rebuke from T.S. Tirumurti, India’s permanent representative to the UN, conveying the country’s position on this share of a ...

Jaishankar Stresses on more Globalisation: The focus for India, when it comes to connectivity projects will always be transparency- this is the message that External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar gave at the Deccan Dialogue, held at the Indian School of Business in Hyderabad recently. Indirectly addressing the Chinese move on the Belt and Road Initiative ...

4 jawans killed in LOC: Showing a sharp heightening of attacks along the Line of Control (LoC) in north Kashmir, four BSF jawans and four civilians got killed, in a baseless ceasefire violation by Pakistan, authorities stated. In the attack around 6 to 7 Pakistani soldiers were killed in the counter fire, sources stated.  According ...

Early Sunday a fierce gunfire occurred along the LOC (Line of Control) as militants tried to cross across into the Valley through Kupwara’s Machil sector in north Kashmir. Three militants were killed, and one BSF (Border Security Personnel), one Army officer and two soldiers were martyred as cover up firing continued from Pakistan to support ...

On Thursday, Pakistan violated the ceasefire in an unprovoked fashion along the LOC (Line of Control) in Jammu and Kashmir’s Naugam sector, Kupwara. Indian Army gave a befitting response but ended up getting two soldiers martyred. “Pakistan initiated an unprovoked ceasefire violation along the LoC in Naugam sector, Kupwara on Thursday morning by firing mortars ...