As part of his visit, VAdm Hammond is also scheduled to visit the Indian Navy's Southern Naval Command (at Kochi) and Western Naval Command (at Mumbai).
'Global & regional strategic issues' discussed at the first physical meeting between the two sides since tensions at LAC in 2020 over China's ingress into eastern Ladakh.
The first part of the Army Commanders’ Conference 2024 will be virtually on March 28, 2024, and the second part in physical mode on April 1, 2024, in New Delhi.
Besides indigenous defence capabilities, 'Bharat Shakti' aimed at showcasing integration of three forces in areas of communications, training, interoperability & logistics.
Condemning Hamas attack on Israel, both nations also called for maintaining humanitarian law in Gaza. French President Macron attended Republic Day parade as chief guest with Modi.
French aerospace major, involved with the Indian military for over 7 decades, said the company is ramping up its engineering centres and teams in Bengaluru and Noida.
Start-up announced that its prototype had completed flight during Winter Solstice trial. Big fillip to India’s plan of having long-endurance drone capable of flying in stratosphere.
Increased allocations for defence should be seen through the prism of peace and development, with expenditure considered as an investment that yields handsome returns.
The world watched aghast as police armed with tasers, tear-gas masks—and in one case backed up by snipers—arrested hundreds of pro-Palestinian protesters at universities across the United States.
Germany’s erstwhile Christian Democratic Union govt, led by Angela Merkel, prevented sale of small arms to police forces in states they perceived had ‘bad human rights record’.
A theme has not yet emerged for BJP & people see lack of a contest, which makes it unexciting. For all these reasons, 2024 is turning out to be an unexpectedly theme-less election.
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