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Friday, July 25, 2025
TopicLanding platform docks

Topic: landing platform docks

Hit by budget crunch, Indian Navy now plans to buy 2 Landing Platform Docks instead of 4

Navy is working on a fresh request for proposal with new specs, two months after the defence ministry cancelled the 2013 RFP to buy 4 Landing Platform Docks.

Setback for private shipyards as Navy cancels Rs 20,000 cr Landing Platform Docks contract

The Request for Proposals to build 4 LPDs was issued in November 2013, and went through seven extensions and one re-submission of bids.

GST impact: Arms companies to resubmit bids worth thousands of crores

Bidders to be given chance to revise costs; ongoing projects like anti-tank missiles, mine sweepers, LPDs to be affected.

On Camera

Thailand-Cambodia clash is more than a border fight—it’s a new front in Cold War 2.0

The Southeast Asian theatre is central to the Great Power contest between the US and China. It’s also a landscape where middle powers—France, the UK, Turkey—are shaping the strategic environment.

India-US set to ink mini trade deal soon, reach understanding on agricultural & dairy products

Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.

DRDO successfully tests latest version of UAV-launched precision missile, ULPGM-V3

Capable of being fired in plain and high-altitude areas, it has day-and-night capability and two-way data link to support post-launch target, aim-point update.

Strategic partner one day, tactical nightmare the next: India’s learning Trumplomacy the hard way

Public, loud, upfront, filled with impropriety and high praise sometimes laced with insults. This is what we call Trumplomacy. But the larger objective is the same: American supremacy.