Suspected terrorist behind abortive bid to target CRPF convoy arrested

SOURCE: PTI A suspected terrorist, who made an abortive attempt to target a CRPF convoy on the Jammu-Srinagar national highway on Saturday, was arrested on Monday and is being questioned, police sources said. A CRPF vehicle had suffered slight damage when a Santro car went up in flames after an explosion at Tethar village, 7 […]

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General Electric offers India a new engine for MWF and AMCA fighter program

SOURCE: IDRW NEWS NETWORK General Electric Company which previously supplied engines for India’s Tejas Mk1 fighter jet has recently offered to supply F414 Enhanced Engines to power India’s upcoming Medium Weight Fighter (MWF), and 5th Generation AMCA fighter jet program. According to reliable industry sources close to idrw.org, ADA officials were officially briefed by GE […]

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Lone Pak submarine on patrol as 4 undergo repair

SOURCE: HT Pakistan’s current submarine force levels are low with four of its navy’s five operational units undergoing major refit and repairs, three top intelligence officials in India have independently confirmed. “We have inputs that indicate that only one Pakistan Navy submarine is partially operational. And this is the reason why they were frantically seeking […]

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Former general backs ‘soft power’ to fight Pak’s ‘proxy hybrid war’ in J&K

SOURCE: HT Syed Ata Hasnain, former general-officer-commanding of the Indian army’s Srinagar–based 15 Corps, wants the government to balance its hard approach in Jammu and Kashmir with ‘adequate doses of soft power’, without pulling back from its ground operations. Lt General (Retd) Hasnain told officials, diplomats and researchers at the International Institute for Strategic Studies […]

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Seeking the next frontier

SOURCE: THE HINDU Last Wednesday, on March 27, India carried out an anti-satellite (ASAT) test using an interceptor missile (as a kinetic kill vehicle) to neutralise a target satellite (possibly the Microsat-R launched in January this year) in a Low Earth Orbit (LEO) at an altitude of around 300 km. While India is the fourth […]

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Pakistan will die its own death, leave it, let’s move ahead: PM Narendra Modi

SOURCE: TNN Speaking about the airstrikes in Balakot, Pakistan, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Sunday that “Pakistan will die its own death”. Addressing a ‘Main bhi Chowkidar’ event here that, the BJP claimed, was beamed across the country at 500 places, Modi said Pakistan had started opening its airspace now believing “Modi was busy with elections”. “For me, […]

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Missile programme comes to aid of delay-plagued DRDO

SOURCE: TNN The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO)-often described as a ‘White Elephant’- has been under constant criticism for delays and technologies that are not up to mark, but its missile programme, even which has had some critical issues has come to its aid time and again. While multiple DRDO missiles have been tested […]

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