Tag: Ministry of Defence

Lt General PS Rajeshwar is new Chief of Integrated Defence Staff

Lt General Rajeshwar was commissioned into the Regiment of Artillery in December 1980. He is an alumnus of the Indian Military Academy, Dehradun and the National Defence College, Delhi.

November 1, 2018

Ministry of Defence clears purchase of 111 naval helicopters

A meeting of the Defence Acquisition Council (DAC), the ministry's highest decision-making body on procurement, cleared the proposals

August 26, 2018

How many more raps before MoD wakes up?

Twice in the last fortnight, the Supreme Court has rapped the Ministry of Defence (MoD) on the knuckles and fined it for appealing against cases pertaining to grant of disability pension to veterans. The MoD was appealing against decisions of the Armed Forces Tribunal (AFT). In its judgment, the Supreme Court remarked that the government …

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May 1, 2018

Rapped again

It would appear a rather loose ship that Nirmala Sitharaman is running in South Block. Twice in recent weeks have their Lordships Madan B Lokur and Deepak Gupta of the Supreme Court been constrained to slam the Ministry of Defence for indulging in excessive litigation in trying to thwart orders of the Armed Forces Tribunal …

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April 30, 2018

Make-in-India defence

The four-day DefExpo India, held from April 11 to 14 in Chennai has ambitiously positioned India as an emerging defence manufacturing hub in the world, and as an exporter of defence systems and components. It has showcased the strength of the country’s public sector. Such objectives appeared a bit ambitious considering that India is the …

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April 24, 2018

PPT wants to acquire ICG ship Vajra after it decommission

Paradip Port Trust is interested in acquiring the Indian Coast Guard ship ‘Vajra’ which was decommissioned recently with full armed forces honours to convert it to a international maritime centre for higher learning cum naval museum. The PPT has sent a proposal in this regard to the Ministry of Defence. The authority of PPT has …

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April 14, 2018

IAF to conduct Exercise Gaganshakti from 8-22 April

The exercise, to be conducted in two phases – western and northern, will be executed keeping in mind the ‘Joint Operational Doctrine’.

April 7, 2018

Needless hush

At a point in time when transparency and openness are considered principled-buzzwords, the Ministry of Defence appears to be determined to perpetuate the sacred-cow image of military affairs. True that secrecy is critical in operational matters, and perhaps all pricing details cannot be made public about the purchase of Rafale fighters since it is an …

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April 7, 2018

BRO lost 2,500 km road projects to other agencies since 2014: RTI

The Border Roads Organisation (BRO) — a strategic road construction body under the Ministry of Defence — has lost over 2,576.53 km of roadworks to other agencies since the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government came in power in 2014, revealed an RTI. “Road total length of 2,576.53 km has been transferred by the BRO …

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December 22, 2017

Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman elected IDSA President

Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has been elected President of the Institute for Defence Studies and Analysis (IDSA). IDSA was set up in 1965 by the Ministry of Defence as an autonomous think tank, and it is customary to have the Defence Minister as its President. The Minister chairs the Executive Council which governs the Institute. …

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November 25, 2017

Noise detected in Atlantic not from missing Argentine submarine

The Argentine Navy has confirmed that a noise detected in the South Atlantic area, was not from the ARA San Juan, a submarine with 44 crew members on board which disappeared last week. “That noise was analysed, the acoustic signature, and it does not correspond to a submarine, to a pattern of what would be …

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November 21, 2017

Dignity is what the military seeks

There has been rising discontent within the armed forces on reports of likely degradation in their status as against other central services. There are fears of it being downgraded to Group B, rather than remaining the Group A service it presently is. Over decades, governments under the influence of a powerful bureaucracy, have been lowering …

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October 10, 2017

Why ordnance factories must be cut to size

The Vice Chief of the Army, Lieutenant General Sarath Chand, stated in a seminar a few days ago that Indian ordnance factories have not been able to keep pace with changing technologies as ‘there is no competition whatsoever’ and it is an ‘unsuccessful method of supporting our defence requirements’. He went on to add that …

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August 1, 2017

Armed forces sufficiently equipped with ammunition: Jaitley

Defence Minister Arun Jaitley on Tuesday assured the Rajya Sabha that the defence forces are "sufficiently equipped" with ammunition, after opposition members raised concerns over ammunition shortage quoting a recent report of the central auditor. A report of the Comptroller and Auditor General last week pointed out that the Indian Army is battling critical shortage …

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July 25, 2017

New military doctrine and joint operations

The Chairman, Chiefs of Staff Committee (COSC), Admiral Sunil Lanba, recently released the new military doctrine in the presence of the other two service chiefs. This doctrine proposes joint training, a unified command and control structure and a triservice approach for modernisation. It also mentions a framework for joint operations across all domains, land, air, …

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May 2, 2017

Tata Motors bags order of 3,192 Safari Stormes for Indian Army

Tata Motors has bagged an order of 3,192 units of its Safari Storme 4×4 for the prestigious Indian Armed Forces. Under the newly formed GS800 (General Service 800) category, the butch SUV will be supplied to the forces in phases. It will be replacing the age-old Maruti Gypsy in the 4×4 light-weight class. Earlier, the …

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April 28, 2017

Army officers discuss security threats, advocate tri-service doctrine

Top army commanders have carried out a detailed analysis of India's internal and external security threats and decided to push for modernisation of the force, besides advocating a tri-service doctrine to deal with major security challenges. At a six-day annual commanders' conference, the top brass of the army also deliberated extensively on human resource policy …

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April 23, 2017