Government Asks Kashmiri Students Stranded On India-Bangladesh Border to Return to Dhaka
The government on Tuesday advised Kashmiri students stranded on India-Bangladesh border to return to Dhaka in view of their own safety and the risks to other people due to the coronavirus pa... Read more
Coronavirus: All of India Under Lockdown for 3 Weeks
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday ramped up the fight against coronavirus by announcing that the entire country was being placed under lockdown — he called it as good as curfew — for 2... Read more
Pompeo Leaves Kabul, No Word on Political Power-Sharing Deal
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo left Afghanistan on Monday without saying whether he was able to broker an agreement between the country’s squabbling political leaders. Pompeo was... Read more
China’s Air Force is Growing Fast, But It’s Mostly Fly Old Planes
Roughly 33 percent of the PLAAF and PLANAF’s combat aircraft are old second-generation fighters of limited combat value against peer opponents. The People’s Liberation Army Air Force of Chin... Read more
Lack of Orders and Idle Production Facilities Alarm Defence PSUs
Defence public sector undertakings and shipyards have sounded the alarm over the lack of confirmed orders and under-utilisation of their production capacities, amidst the government touting... Read more
After LMGs, Indian Army will Soon Get Close-Quarter-Battle Carbines
The CQBs for the infantry army of the Indian army is coming through the Fast Track Procurement (FTP), just like the LMGs With the deal for the Light Machine Guns (LMG) in place, the Indian A... Read more
DRDO Starts Testing for COVID-19 in Karnataka
The Defence Research and Development Organization (DRDO) announced that it was joining efforts to combat COVID-19 by conducting detection and testing for the coronavirus. The announcement, w... Read more
Mukesh Ambani led Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) has announced a slew of measures to fight the deadly coronavirus (COVID-19) including setting up India’s first dedicated COVID-19 hospital... Read more
SAARC Members Warm Up to PM Modi’s Covid-19 Fund Call
Contributions to a fund put together by South Asian countries to combat the challenge posed by the Covid-19 pandemic to one of the most underdeveloped regions of the world seems to take taki... Read more
IAF Won’t Allow COVID-19 Suspects to Board Aircraft During Evacuation from Abroad, Pilots Told to Remain in Cockpit
Having already airlifted 170 Indian and other nationality passengers from China and Iran, the Indian Air Force (IAF) has issued instructions to its air-crew that people with symptoms of COVI... Read more









