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TopicDefence minister

Topic: defence minister

South Korea names first civilian defence minister in 64 years after martial law shook faith in army

SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korea's President Lee Jae Myung named veteran lawmaker Ahn Gyu-back as the country's first civilian defence minister in 64 years on Monday, making good on a campaign promise

Germany needs 60,000 more troops to meet new NATO targets, says defence minister

Defence minister Boris Pistorius’s announcement comes in the wake of Trump’s demand for NATO to increase defence investment from 2% to 5% of the GDP.

Rajnath Singh releases commemorative coin to mark Karunanidhi’s centenary

Singh praised the former Tamil Nadu CM as a fierce advocate of women's rights.

‘Betrayed, violated discipline’ — in a first, China declares graft probe against 2 ex-defence ministers

Li Shangfu, whose tenure as defence minister was shortest in Chinese history, and his predecessor Wei Fenghe, have been expelled from Communist Party of China, according to state media. 

‘India has been our 911 call’ — Maldives ex-minister says remarks against Modi show ‘short-sightedness’

Former Maldives Defence Minister Mariya Ahmed Didi said India has provided assistance in various sectors, and criticised any attempt to undermine the longstanding relationship.

China’s defence minister disappears, latest in the case of missing officials

China's public face of the military as the defence minister, Li is under investigation over the corrupt procurement of military equipment.

China turns down US request for a meeting between defence chiefs in Singapore

Last week, the White House said there were discussions by the defence dept to get talks going between Lloyd Austin & his Chinese counterpart, who was named defence minister in March.

On Camera

Indian bureaucracy should be given incentives and rewards: MH Mody

Is there a place for a counter-bureaucracy, or a separate and competing bureaucracy to counterbalance the force of the executive’s bureaucracy, asked author MH Mody in 1980.

India’s urban co-op banks are turning the page—crisis to cautious revival, one metric at a time

With bad loans shrinking & capital buffers stronger, urban co-op banks’ new umbrella body NUCFDC is now prioritising rollout of digital transformation.

Greece looking at TATA’s WhAP infantry combat vehicle for army procurement

If deal goes through, Greece will be 2nd foreign country to procure vehicle. Morocco was first; TATA Group has set up manufacturing unit there with minimum 30 percent indigenous content.

A year-end Mea Culpa in National Interest—The Army-Islam combo doesn’t kill democracy

Many of you might think I got something so wrong in National Interest pieces written this year. I might disagree! But some deserve a Mea Culpa. I’d deal with the most recent this week.