Government approves procurement of 111 helicopters for Navy at cost of Rs 21,000 crore
The Defence ministry cleared procurement proposals worth nearly Rs 46,000 crore which included the acquisition of the helicopters.
Representational Image | Demo of Defence Helicopters at Defexpo. (Photo |...
Ice Confirmed at the Moon’s Poles
The image shows the distribution of surface ice at the Moon’s south pole (left) and north pole (right), detected by NASA’s Moon Mineralogy Mapper instrument. Blue represents the ice locations, plotted over an image of the lunar surface, where the gray scale...
Sir,
i don't want to get into choice of words, but on ground even Su50 (PAK-FA) is not going anywhere. For some really strange reasons (including economic) Russian forces seem to have developed cold feet over PAK FA and with Chinese J 20 and 31 likely to be produced in numbers, i'm not sure if...
Finally First Section of Western Dedicated freight Corridor becomes functional. First Regular Double stacked Container trains start operation. Initially these will be hauled by 4500 HP diesel locomotives, soon to be replaced by 9000 HP three phase electric locomotives under development by...
Ah the romance of steam era.
I too fell in love with railways when i was about 3 years old and my grandpa took me to Idgah meter Gauge Steam shed (in Agra).
Beautiful story.
Champions don't have victim mentality and for people like Shrikant, make most out of life by sheer grit and determination.
I hope people take inspiration from this story.
India becomes first South Asian country to get access to America's cutting-edge technology
In 2016, the US had recognised India as a major defence partner - a move which paved the way for country's STA-1 status. Both the countries had reached an understanding under which India would receive...
Saw this news on Alstom's twitter account yesterday and it is really heartening to see SNCF not sitting on its laurels and constantly upgrading services to keep its customer base intact.
World over this story of countries investing in Rail network up-gradation and reaping rich dividends gives a...
A traditional NATO ally turning to arch enemy for a cutting edge weapon system, which US knows it doesn't have a parallel to offer will definitely cause Uncle Sam heart burn.
But in larger context US has to understand that in today's world, it can't dictate terms to independent nations. &...
On the contrary they are quite smart brother.
They know they cant kill business from Indian defence sector in long term and with a businessman like Trump in Oval office, Defence industry in US know how to keep a customer happy.
India’s S-400 missile system deal with Russia set to escape US sanction
A crucial S-400 air defence missile systems deal with Russia would have invited US sanctions. New Delhi had made it clear that it would go ahead with the deal which is in an “advanced stage”
India has told the United...
Last year got a chance to hop inside a WDG 4D at Ratlam junction for sometime.
The freight train was a container rake and the loco pilots showed me how display pannels inside the cab with lights switched off. Must say EMD has designed one of the best looking cab with all data required for safe...
@Norwegian
Buddy there is no shortage of such motor mouths in each and every political party in India. The only thing i can add is that media is extremely cunning to pickup which statements to give prominence and create drama.
As for current government, we must remember that this is an...
Interest costs will come down based on returns made by government and also reduction in ledning cost after improvement of credit ratings.
I suppose what government must do now is to not indulge in populism for this is one area where money goes without serving any good economic reason. Control...
No it ain't.
Right now the 2 biggest problem we are facing are:
Banking system in real mess owing to a lot of bad loans and defaults coupled with frauds. This has put banking system under tremendous pressure more after central bank came out with real strict guidelines to disclose bad loans (or...