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The cost of the project will be Rs 21,738 crore, the sources said.
Yudh Abhyas 2009 will impart a different trajectory to the military-to-military relationship. This is no longer about raids on insurgent hideouts or terrorist camps; strike corps training is for fighting a full-scale war together. This year, American and Indian mechanised forces will synchronise operations, planning, manoeuvring and firing together to capture a simulated objective.
Vaihayasi P Daniel watched the Mumbai police force display its might through a parade of its security forces, accompanied by the latest, armoured high-tech vehicles, marching to honour the victims of the 26/11 terror attack.
'India is not the India of 1962. We are not carrying that baggage of history anymore.'
The deeply traditional Indian Army, which prides itself on training outdoors with real equipment, could soon start training on simulators like other high-tech armies.
The deeply traditional Indian Army, which prides itself on training outdoors with real equipment, could soon start training on simulators like other high-tech armies.
According to a report by BBC News, the battery operated Anti-Terrorist Assault Cart (Atac) (costing Rs 20 lakh) is said to resemble a bulletproof golf buggy with firing ports. Metaltech said that the squat and heavily armoured vehicle can also withstand grenade blasts and last for six hours on a single charge -- with a top speed of 25km/h (15mph).
While skill is not an issue with Vinesh, holding off strong candidates for six minutes is a big challenge, she herself had admitted recently.
Using the ongoing Indo-US joint wargame Yudha Abhyas 09 as a platform, the US -- anxious to grab a major chunk of the lucrative Indian arms market -- will undertake live operations of its high-tech weaponry like the Stryker infantry armoured vehicles and Javelin anti-tank guided missiles.
A local resident informed the police about the bag following which the search operation was conducted in Pathankot city and Mamoon Cantonment.
An Indian Army jawan and a Special Police Officer allegedly committed suicide by shooting themselves with their service weapons here and in Doda district respectively, a police spokesman said on Tuesday.
Rafael Nadal rediscovered his clay court form after a rare wobble in the semi-finals to beat fellow Spaniard David Ferrer 7-5, 6-2, in Sunday's rain-hit final and claim his fifth Rome Masters title in six years.
Rafael Nadal overcame a stern challenge from Ernests Gulbis to reach the Rome Masters final on Saturday, prevailing 6-4, 3-6, 6-4 after the Latvian had exposed chinks in the clay master's armour.
Eriksen punctured Brighton's armour from Tottenham's 29th goal attempt -- 21 of which were from outside the penalty area.
'Given the past practice in the Pakistan army, this delay is most unusual,' notes Rana Banerji, who headed the Pakistan desk at the Research and Analysis Wing, India's external intelligence agency.
The latest gadget in the armour of Special Protection Group, the crack commando force that protects the Prime Minister and four other VVIPs, are electronic stunners that look just like an ordinary laptop.
Sachin Tendulkar is a great batsman but to suggest he is the best ever is demeaning to those former greats who survived the bodyline series and stood at the crease without any modern-day safety gears, feels former England skipper Mike Atherton.
'They cannot use firearms.' 'They have to be restrained.' 'It is a game of patience and chess board moves.' 'It is not like India and Pakistan where bullets get fired and people get killed.'
After Srikanth was ousted 9-21, 11-21 by reigning world champion Kento Momota of Japan, third seed Sindhu went down fighting 11-21, 21-11, 15-21 to World No. 6 Chen Yufei of China in a hard-fought contest, which lasted 52 minutes.
The 'AH-64-E' choppers are known as one of the most advanced multi-role combat helicopters.
Chetan Maini names the company Reva, after his mother. Over the next seven years, Maini and his men research electric cars, register five patents and try to develop insights into the consumer's mind.
Bollywood Bazar provides a window into India's filmi antiques.
The National Accountability Bureau officials took Sharif, 68, and Maryam, 44, into custody in the Avenfield case, shortly after their arrival at Lahore airport from London via Abu Dhabi. They were flown to Islamabad on a special aircraft and then were taken to the Adiala Jail in separate armoured personnel carriers escorted by police convoys.
'The mandir-masjid issue led to a lot of blood, pain and anguish on both sides. It scarred this nation.' 'It is time to educate ourselves and move on.'
At war, the Jalashwa can carry and launch a full infantry battalion in a single wave. At peace, the Jalashwa can evacuate 1,000 people in a single trip. Ajai Shukla explains why the Indian Navy's new tender for more ships like the Jalashwa must be treated with special urgency.
About 100 vehicles destined for the US-led North Atlantic Treaty Organisation forces in Afghanistan were set ablaze on Monday by heavily armed pro-Taliban militants in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar, in the second such attack in as many days.
20 CEOs are from the companies based in US.
The IAF has insisted it hit its targets. If that is indeed true, then the lack of obvious damage could mean it has used a different bomb -- possibly procured secretly from Israel.
Sex has been around for much longer than many scientists had previously believed -- 380 million years to be exact. That's the conclusion of new study which discovered a fossilised pregnant fish and her embryo.According to ABC Online, remains of the primitive fish have provided the earliest known evidence of copulation and live births in the animal kingdom, the study published in Nature stated.The fossil was found in 2005 in the Kimberley region of Western Australia.
In a major liberalisation, the government on Thursday allowed manufacturing of several hundreds of equipment and products in the defence sector without licence.
Wary of copycat attacks in New York after the Mumbai carnage, the largest police department of the United States, in New York has launched a counter-terrorism initiative, training officers in tactics for close quarters combat and rescuing hostages in hotels and other high-rise buildings.
'Tata A&D, when formed, will be better equipped to execute larger and more complex projects and be more globally competitive as part of the global supply chain.'
The Virat Kohli-led team ticked all the boxes in their opening win of the series Australia on Saturday.
Watch Clash of the Titans if you're in the mood for mindless fun are not bothered by patchy special effects.
Locked in a fierce battle with the Georgian troops, Russian security forces on Saturday bombarded key military bases in the breakaway South Ossetia province for the second straight day as Moscow claimed that 1,500 people were killed in fighting in the sensitive region.
Major General Sujan Singh Uban, a legendary veteran of the Second World War, was a natural choice to raise, train and command the Special Frontier Force and mould them into a well oiled fighting machine, recalls his son Inspector General Gurdip Singh Uban (retd), who led SFF troops during the Kargil War.
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Kashmir remained under curfew for the second consecutive day on Monday with police and paramilitary forces deployed heavily in the Valley to thwart any attempt by separatists to hold a protest march to Lal Chowk in Srinagar.
The domineering Board President's XI punctured Australia's usual aura of invincibility in the drawn warm-up match, exposing numerous chinks in the visitors' armour ahead of the four-match cricket Test series.
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