ISLAMABAD: In order to shore up the depleting foreign currency reserves, Pakistan plans to secure $2 to $3 billion from China as safe deposits and launching of sovereign Eurobond worth $2.5 billion for avoiding plunging into another balance of payment crisis in the next fiscal year 2018-19, The...
US had also offered to build the F-104 Starfighter(which just the F-16s,was also used by Pakistan) in India in the 1980s.India rejected it and went for Jaguars.This time it will be rejected for the Rafales(maybe competition is added to pressure Dassault to reduce price)
India is not looking to procure F-16,no matter how much you paint some decals and put new headlights.The single engine tender was scrapped because Lockheed/GoUS was not willing to provide any substantive technology.Also buying F-16 to be able to buy F-35 at a future date sounds like blackmail
India will most likely pull out of RCEP.India has free trade arrangements with all countries in the grouping except China,Australia and NZ.Discussions for bilateral arrangements with Australia and NZ are are also ongoing
As many as 33 illegal migrants from Bangladesh were arrested by police in Rajasthan.
The arrests were made by the Alwar police of Rajasthan on Sunday, who also recovered mobile phones from their possession.
Meanwhile, a search operation is underway to nab the facilitator.
A probe to ascertain...
They are support equipment,not core equipment.All the communication equipment were removed and fitted with Indian-made ones.(Same is done for equipment from other countries too.)
Under US law,it would be illegal to sell sensitive communication equipment if the receiving party has not signed...
From the article-
""Today we have many options, from France to Israel, and it's better that the US does not try to undermine our military ties."
India has not bought core equipment from US like fighter jets,tanks etc because it requires signing a lot of sensitive agreements that India is not...
India’s state-owned Garden Reach Shipbuilders & Engineers (GRSE) and Elbit Systems of Israel will build together Elbit’s Seagull unmanned surface vessels. A model of the Seagull USV was presented at GRSE’s pavilion at DefExpo 2018.
Seagull is a 12-meter long USV that can be operated from a...