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INDIA took delivery of a nuclear powered submarine from Russia on Monday making it the world’s sixth country to operate this sophisticated and highly coveted vessel. The K-152 Nerpa or Akula-II class submarine christened INS Chakra has been leased for a 10 year period but without nuclear tipped missiles from Russia. India is slated to lease a second Russian nuclear [...]
Mumbai, Dec 28 (IANS) A Sea King helicopter from naval air station INS Shikra here was launched by the Indian Navy Tuesday for casualty evacuation of a crew member onboard an Iranian oil tanker, a defence official said Wednesday. ‘The maritime operation centre here had received a fax Monday regarding a casualty onboard the MT Seeb, an Iranian oil tanker, [...]
Moscow, Dec 27 (IANS/RIA Novosti) The flight tests of the Bulava intercontinental ballistic missile have been completed and it will now be adopted for service with the Russian Navy, President Dmitry Medvedev said Tuesday. ‘We have made a very important step, we have completed the cycle of flight tests of the Bulava missile. Now it will be put into service,’ [...]
The tension between Islamabad and Washington is being stretched to the limit. Reports from Washington say US officials are trying to ‘limit’ its counter-terrorism alliance with Pakistan. But this time, it appears, the situation could be more damaging, especially for Islamabad, because its duplicity and denials are being exposed as it possibly dances its last tango with Washington. This could [...]
Jammu, Dec 27 (IANS) Causing concern in the Indian Army, China has increased the presence of its military engineers in Pakistan-administered Kashmir, a senior army officer said. Although the exact number of Peoples Liberation Army men and engineers engaged in building infrastructure across the Line of Control is not known, their number has increased in recent months, the senior commander [...]
Agartala, Dec 27 (IANS) Tripura Police, a force that has earned distinction for battling four decades of terrorism, will add another feather to its cap next month when they are conferred the President’s Colours — the fourth police force to receive the honour. State’s Director General of Police Sanjay Sinha told IANS: ‘Vice-President Hamid Ansari will confer the President’s Colours [...]
Washington, Dec 27 (IANS) The US Central Command Monday called for enhanced trust-building measures, including full disclosure of all facilities and installations near the Afghan border, to avoid a repetition of the ‘friendly fire incident’ that killed 24 Pakistani troops last month. ‘The strongest take-away from this incident is the fundamental fact that we must improve border coordination and this [...]
Tehran, Dec 26 (IANS) Iran has expressed its willingness to extend military and security cooperation to its one-time foe Iraq, a media report said. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of Iran’s armed forces Major General Hassan Firouzabadi said that the Islamic republic is ready to expand its military and security cooperation with Iraq, Xinhua reported, citing the Press [...]
New Delhi, Dec 26 (IANS) Uncertainty over the year of birth of Indian Army chief Gen. Vijay Kumar Singh continues, with all indications that Defence Minister A.K. Antony may not respond to a statutory complaint from the former submitted in August this year. The controversy relates to the army chief’s request, made over a year ago, for restoring his date [...]
Tehran, Dec 26 (IANS) The Iranian navy is constructing its second modern destroyer, said a senior official. Rear Admiral Habibollah Sayyari told IRNA that the destroyer, which enjoys capabilities in surface-to-air, surface-to-surface and sub-surface operations, will join the Iranian fleet soon. The Jamaran-2 is also capable of offering fuel to helicopters, he said. The official said that the Jamaran-1 warship [...]
Chandigarh, Dec 25 (IANS) Punjab Police has reviewed and stepped up the security of VIP politicians in the state following a communication from Delhi Police that a module of the Khalistani terror group, Babbar Khalsa International (BKI), was out to target them in the runup to next month’s Punjab assembly elections. The Delhi Police communication follows the arrest of two [...]
Kabul, Dec 25 (IANS) Afghan President Hamid Karzai has reiterated his call to the NATO-led coalition forces to stop night raid operations in the country. ‘Afghan President Hamid Karzai once again called on NATO forces to stop night raid and search operations on Afghan houses,’ Xinhua quoted Lemar TV as reporting. ‘Afghanistan will not sign a strategic partnership with the [...]
Moscow, Dec 25 (IANS/RIA Novosti) The chief of Russia’s military intelligence GRU has resigned from his post, the Kommersant business daily reported. The 64-year-old Col. Gen. Alexander Shlyakhturov, who resigned Saturday, will in the near future head the board of directors of the Moscow Institute of Heat Engineering, the developer of the Bulava ballistic missile and other strategic missile systems. [...]
Tehran, Dec 24 (IANS) Iran Saturday launched a massive 10-day naval exercise in international waters, the official media reported. The manoeuvres, dubbed Velayat 90, will be held in a 2,000 km stretch of sea off the southern edge of the Arabian Peninsula, from the Strait of Hormuz, into the Gulf of Aden, near the entrance to the Red Sea, Xinhua [...]
Moscow, Dec 23 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Russia successfully test launched two intercontinental ballistic missiles Friday, defence officials said Friday. The Bulava missiles were launched from the Borey-class Yury Dolgoruky nuclear-powered submarine in the White Sea and hit designated targets at the Kura test range on Kamchatka, some 6,000 km to the east, said Defence Ministry spokesman colonel Igor Konashenkov. This was [...]
Beijing, Dec 23 (IANS) Over 10,000 dogs are presently serving the Chinese armed forces in missions like peacekeeping, post-disaster search and rescue and border patrolling, a Chinese army official has revealed. These dogs are currently serving in more than 5,000 army divisions, said Wang Han, an official with the Beijing-based war dog breeding and training centre, during a seminar, Xinhua [...]
New Delhi, Dec 23 (IANS) The government Friday said Maoist violence in the central and eastern parts of the country has declined this year as compared to 2010. ?Naxal (Maoist) violence has declined as compared to the corresponding period last year. In the year 2011 (till November) 1,554 Naxal incidents took place, causing 542 deaths as compared to 2006 incidents [...]
Moscow, Dec 23 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Russia became the world?s second largest arms exporter after the US in 2011, said Igor Korotchenko, the head of the Moscow-based arms think tank Centre for Analysis of World Arms Trade (CAWAT), Friday. The CAWAT ranking revealed that Russia occupied the second position for world arms sales in 2011 with $11.29 billion in revenues, which [...]
New Delhi, Dec 23 (IANS) India is all set to induct the last of the six C-130J Super Hercules cargo plane for its Special Forces this weekend, with the US major Lockheed Martin flying out the aircraft from its Marietta facility near Atlanta in US on Dec 15. The aircraft fleet of six was bought by India in January 2008 [...]
Washington, Dec 23 (IANS) Alan D. Bersin, commissioner of the US Customs and Border Protection (CBP), says he will quit at the end of the month. Bersin, who was appointed by President Barack Obama in March, 2010, said in a statement that he notified the president Thursday that he would be leaving December-end. ‘My service as commissioner has been one [...]
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