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Appealing to prospective recruits in a language they're familiar with. The Indian Air Force [IAF] recently recently issued a notification inviting 'Expression of Interest' from game developers for building an IAF-themed game, initially, for the mobile platform - Android & iOS OS. A move in the...

A few posts earlier included images of the INS Vikramaditya, one of which showed it firing what then was assumed to be a defensive weapon system. A search in that direction turned up nothing. As it turns out, they are actually anti-ship missile decoys being launched from the PK-2 countermeasure...

A Communication Satellite believed to be built solely to cater to the communication requirements of the Indian Armed Forces, especially the Navy. One knows almost as much today, as one knew a year back, about this satellite, which is, very little. After years of delay in its commissioning...

NEW DELHI: Visitors to Rashtrapati Bhavan will have to pay a fee from September 1 to enjoy the tour. The President's office has introduced a "registration charge" of Rs 25 per person per visit for individuals and groups of people below 30. A group of 30 visitors will be charged Rs 600 while more...

D.O.T. seeks Tel Comm nod for National Telecom Network Security Coordination Board Board to oversee telecom, cyber security related issues to avoid overlap between different ministries, intelligence agencies The Department of Telecommunications (***) has sought approval from the Telecom...

Govt mulls R&D centre for tech security tools Research areas would include image processing, video analytics, explosive detection, robotics and unmanned aerial vehicles To raise its technological capability in the area of homeland security, the government is looking at setting up a centre...

EXCLUSIVE : As US pulls out of Afghanistan, its weapons head for Pakistan With the United States all set to withdraw from Afghanistan, alarm bells have begun to ring in New Delhi as reports indicate that a lot of arms being used by the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) could...

Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant 1st unit to reach 1000 MWe maximum capacity by Nov end The first unit of Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant, which attained criticality on July 3 will reach its maximum capacity of 1000 MWe by November end, according to S Sundar, project site director. "All...

Boeing approves one more year of C-17 production on anticipated orders from India and Australia Boeing has started building as many as 12 more C-17 airlifters in anticipation of signing new orders from international customers, possibly extending the Long Beach, California production line...

XKeyscore siphons data directly from Internet networks without judicial oversight or authorisation Continuing its series of exposes on the manner in which the U.S. government has been tracking global electronic communication traffic, The Guardian has published new documents that reveal...

NEW DELHI: Vice President Hamid Ansari will represent India at the swearing-in ceremony of new Iranian President Hasan Rouhani on August 4, government confirmed on Thursday. Rouhani, who won a landslide victory in the June 14 presidential election, will be sworn in on August 4. He succeeds...

MUMBAI: India has signed a master partnership agreement to become a full-fledged partner of the $1.5-billion five-member international Thirty Metre Telescope (TMT) project. On completion, the Hawaii-situated TMT is said to "become the most advanced and powerful optical telescope on Earth"...

Ukraine is preparing to send to India in August a sixth batch of five An-32 light transport aircraft, which were modernized at the facilities of the Ukrainian defence industry on the order of the Indian Air Force.”The technical acceptance by the customer of the next batch of An-32s has already...

BANGALORE: India's second mission to Moon appears headed for a prolonged delay following uncertainty over availability of lander from Russia even as the 'desi' rocket to launch the space odyssey would take time to become operational. The ambitious Chandrayaan-2 project seems to be in a limbo...

CHENNAI: India's advanced weather satellite Insat-3D, had developed some anomalies after it was launched in the early hours of July 26 from Kourou, French Guyana, but Indian scientists corrected these immediately. The satellite has now been successfully placed in a geosynchronous orbit, the...

A proposal to establish a separate cadre (from recruitment to operations) for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) or remotely piloted vehicles has reached Air Headquarters (AHQ), Indian Air Force (IAF), almost 18 months after it was first suggested . A brainchild of the IAF Training...

WASHINGTON: It won't be a blow-out entry that will sweep America's famed military machine off its feet. But for an organization that was once sanctioned by Washington, derided by New Delhi's import lobby, and mocked even by frustrated swadeshi partisans, India's long-suffering...

HYDERABAD: Success of BrahMos, world's first and only operational supersonic cruise missile developed by an Indo-Russian joint venture- BrahMos Aerospace- has paved way for another similar endeavour between the two countries. CEO and managing director of BrahMos Aerospace A SivathanuPillai while...

A fourth Dornier aircraft was today inducted in the Coast Guard to increase maritime surveillance over coastal West Bengal and Odisha. This took the total strength of the Coast Guards’ Dornier fleet to 38 across the country, a defence release said. It coincided with the completion of...