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Bangladesh today sought enhanced defence cooperation with India, including boosting training facilities for its air wing as Indian Air Force Chief Air Marshal NAK Browne called on the country’s top political leadership and military brass here. The IAF Chief arrived here yesterday on a four-day official visit to Bangladesh...
Porirua based Radiola Aerospace Limited has landed a four year contract to undertake flight inspections of new navigation aids at 30 military airfields throughout India. The contract, awarded by the TATA Power Company of India through its Strategic Electronics Division (TATA Power SED), is a real coup says Radiola...
Kolkata: An upgraded version of the 155mm Bofors gun, the Indian Army’s most potent artillery weapon, will be ready for field trials in January 2013, a top official of the Ordnance Factory Board (OFB) said on Tuesday. “We are working on this upgraded version. This has been tried out...
BANGALORE:India’s longest-ever near-Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) Agni-V is scheduled to be test-fired from the Wheeler Island (Orissa) in the second week of April. The final stages and payload of the missile are set to move out of the Missile Complex in Hyderabad any time now. Sources tell Express that...
NEW DELHI: The army’s integrated headquarters has upstaged an initiative cleared by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to let major and captain-ranked officers appear for a special examination and join the Indian Police Service (IPS). An internal communication accessed by HT revealed that the Army has debarred most officers...
NEW DELHI: India is finally plunging into the oil politics of the Gulf and West Asia. It sent a team of senior officials from the commerce ministry to Iran around a fortnight earlier, to clinch an oil-for-food deal. And, is beginning to woo the Sunni oil kingdoms in the...
NEW DELHI/SINGAPORE: Indian oil buyers are asking Iran to bear the insurance risk for transporting its crude as tighter Western sanctions make it more difficult to buy Tehran’s principal export, industry sources said on Wednesday. The number of maritime firms willing to transport Iranian crude has dwindled significantly since...
NEW DELHI: Seeking to expand the area of cooperation and take the economic engagement to a new level, the Petroleum Secretaries of India and Pakistan are scheduled to hold bilateral talks in New Delhi on March 23. A high-level delegation, led by Pakistan’s Petroleum and Natural Resources Secretary Mohammad...
NEW DELHI: The government has granted industrial units the freedom to use domestic natural gas in their plant if they can replace it with LNG at another location, in a bid to help fuel-starved units which do not have the infrastructure to ship imported gas from the west coast...
CHANDIGARH: Punjab fuel outlet owners on Tuesday asked the newly formed SAD-BJP government to honour its “promise” by abolishing octroi on petrol and diesel which was announced before the Assembly elections. “We want now from the Punjab government to fulfill its promise which was announced before the elections by...