Pakistan’s budgetary allocation of Rs 2,122 billion for defence for 2024-25 constitutes just 1.7 per cent of the cash-strapped but nuclear-armed nation’s GDP, which is the same as the previous year, despite the higher than the Rs 1,804 billion set aside during the outgoing fiscal 2023-24, according to budget documents. Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb on…
ATLAS ELEKTRONIK GmbH has joined forces with CFF Fluid Control Ltd to supply 12 indigenous low-frequency variable depth sonar systems for the Indian Navy. These advanced towed sonars are set to be integrated into Indian Navy Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) vessels, through shipbuilders Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers Ltd in Kolkata and Cochin Shipyard Limited in…
Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi held a bilateral meeting with the President of Ukraine, H.E. Mr. Volodymyr Zelenskyy, on 14 June 2024 on the sidelines of the G7 Summit in Italy. PM thanked President Zelenskyy for his warm wishes on his assuming office for the third term. Both leaders had a productive meeting in which…
The BRICS Ministers of Foreign Affairs/International Relations met on 10 June 2024 in Nizhny Novgorod, Russian Federation. They exchanged views on major global and regional trends and issues. They reaffirmed their commitment to strengthening the framework of BRICS Strategic Partnership under the three pillars of cooperation – politics and security, economy and finance, cultural and…
Indian Navy’s indigenous Stealth Frigate INS Shivalik arrived at Yokosuka, Japan to participate in the bilateral Japan India Maritime Exercise 2024 (JIMEX 24). This is the eighth edition of JIMEX, since its inception in 2012. The ship was accorded a warm welcome by VAdm ITO Hiroshi, Commander JMSDF Yokosuka District & Ambassador Sibi George, Ambassador…
Shri Sanjay Seth assumed charge of the office of Minister of State (Raksha Rajya Mantri), Ministry of Defence on June 11, 2024. Defence Secretary Shri Giridhar Aramane and other senior officials of Ministry of Defence received Shri Sanjay Seth and accompanied him into his South Block office. On this occasion, Shri Sanjay Seth thanked Prime…
Russian drills to deploy tactical nuclear weapons for combat involved the special delivery of dummy nuclear warheads to forward storage points and an airfield where they were loaded on to bombers, according to Russia’s elite nuclear unit. President Vladimir Putin ordered the nuclear drills after what Russia said were threats from the West, including signals…
NATO countries have “comfortably exceeded” a target of placing 300,000 troops on high-readiness as the alliance grapples with the threat from Russia, a senior alliance official said Thursday. NATO leaders agreed in the wake of Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022 to massively ramp up the number of forces that alliance commanders can deploy within…
The Government has appointed Lt Gen Upendra Dwivedi, PVSM, AVSM, presently serving as Vice Chief of the Army Staff, as the next Chief of the Army Staff with effect from the afternoon of June 30, 2024. The present Chief of the Army Staff Gen Manoj C Pande, PVSM, AVSM, VSM demits office on June 30,…
The BRICS bloc of developing countries, including India, on June 10 condemned Israel’s operation into Rafah in southern Palestine and expressed concern at Tel Aviv’s “disregard” of orders of the International Court of Justice. The foreign ministers of the expanded BRICS grouping met at Nizhny Novgorod in Russia on Monday. Since cabinet ministers’ portfolios were…
