PM was saved in nick of time from LeT in Kashmir Information of a possible attack being planned on the PM during his visit to Srinagar was culled out of phone conversations between LeT commander Abdullah Uni and Ali Hurreira.
India's supersonic fighter jets are on its wayThe success of Tejas' successful maiden test flight has brought cheers to the country's defence establishment, at a time when India's fighter strength has been on the decline.
Keep off social networking sites, Army tells its menThe Army has told its officers to keep off social networking sites and refrain from posting sensitive information, following a spate of cyber attacks targeting military personnel.
Is the Indian Army being 'deliberately' weakened?India is going through some testing times. The Kashmir Valley continues to be embroiled in a cycle of violence which is making life an unending misery for the common man.
First three US Super Hercules airlifters get ready for IndiaThe C-130J Super Hercules airlifters are equipped with infrared detection set and it will provide the IAF an ability to conduct precision low-level flying operations and airdrops.
N-capable Prithvi-II successfully test-firedIndia test-fired its indigenously developed, nuclear-capable, ballistic missile Prithvi-II, as part of an exercise to well acquaint the personnel with various aspects of the sophisticated missile.
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- Helicopter-mounted radar to tackle Naxal IEDs
New Delhi: India is deploying cuttingedge technology to defeat a simple insurgent weapon that J&K militants and Naxals are using to lethal effect: the Improvised Explosive Device, or IED. Swedish company Saab has offered to partner India’s Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) in fitting Saab’s CARABAS radar on India’s Dhruv Advanced Light Helicopter (ALH), which would allow the scanning of wide swathes of territory to detect IEDs well before they can be exploded.
- Astra missile test-fired for second consecutive day
Balasore (Orissa): India today test-fired 'Astra', the indigenously developed beyond visual range (BVR) air-to-air missile at Chandipur near here, hours after carrying out the first night trial of the weapon.
- Terror link: Two goof-ups
In the investigations to terror plots, there have been two goof-ups. The Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad `plucked' a 23-year-old boy from a Dubai flight and claimed that he was the mastermind behind the Pune blast. Home Minister P Chidambaram was ecstatic and had congratulated the ATS for arresting Bhatkal, the brother of Indian Mujahideen (IM) founder Riyaz Bhatkal. It now turns out that the boy who was arrested was not Bhatkal but Samad. In the second case, the Congress and other secular parties made a hue and cry over the gunning down of Ishrat Jahan. Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi and the police were accused of cold-blooded murder. But now it turns out that Ishrat was a fidayeen who was assigned to kill Modi. That is what David Coleman Hedley, the Pakistan-born US national who was arrested in connection with the Mumbai blast, had told the National Investigation Agency.
- New deadly group emerges in Pak
Islamabad: Pakistan authorities now believe a dangerous new militant group, out to avenge the deadly Army attack assault on a Lal Masjid in Islamabad three years ago, has carried out several major bombings in the capital previously blamed on the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan.
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