India's junior Foreign Minister Mobashar Jawad Akbar is visiting the Middle East from Aug. 17 to 23, including Syria, Iraq and Lebanon, and the trip is being interpreted by analysts here as a break away from an earlier policy to keep a distance.
Private defense company Tata Power's Strategic Engineering Division has emerged as the lowest bidder to build 78 portable diver detection sonar systems.
The Indian Navy's primary fighter operating from the aircraft carrier INS Vikramaditya faces operational deficiencies due to defects in engines, airframes and fly-by-wire systems, according to a report by India's autonomous auditor.
Overseas defense companies could invest in select Indian venture capital funds to discharge compulsory defense offsets if a proposal, currently under consideration, is implemented by the Indian Ministry of Defence.
India and France move closer to concluding a Rafale fighter-jet deal, estimated at around $9 billion, as the two countries have agreed to sign an inter-governmental agreement.
India has withdrawn the tender for a much-awaited contract for the purchase of six multi-role tanker transport (MRTT) aircraft with Airbus Defence and Space, worth more than $1 billion, on grounds of the planes’ high operational cost.
Coinciding with a visit by Pentagon acquisition chief Frank Kendall, India today awarded a $1 billion contract for the purchase of additional four P-8I maritime surveillance aircraft.