Chetan, the upgraded version of Chetak helicopter, made a successful inaugural flight in Bangalore on Tuesday.
The crisis staring at the 13-month old government after over a dozen MLAs of the ruling combine quit on Saturday deepened with two Ministers and Independent MLAs -- H Nagesh and R Shankar -- resigning from the ministry and withdrawing their support to the coalition.
While industry is upbeat, start-ups in the space sector are finding it difficult to cater to the demand due to a lack of funding, issues related to policy like foreign funding, intellectual property, etc, and a lack of support in testing.
An explanation of the format of the Ryder Cup played between the United States and Europe.
They were working for Parvati Hydel Power Project site in Manikarna area of Kullu district of Himachal Pradesh.
The upgraded Mirage 2000 fighter aircraft will be installed with India-made multi-function displays under an Indo-French partnership, as part of a programme to enhance the operational life of multi-role fighters by around 20 years.
"It was a good flight," B R Pai, Director, National Aerospace Laboratories, which has designed and developed the aircraft, told PTI.
Rahul Gandhi aslos asked the JD-S to clarify whether it was with the BJP and the Sangh Pariwar.
Former British Open champion Tom Lehman has been appointed U.S. Ryder Cup captain for the next match against Europe in 2006.
Russia -- already India's biggest arms supplier from 2014-18, accounting for 58 per cent of India's defence imports -- eyes more, reports Ajai Shukla.
A fine brace by Jose Ramirez Baretto guided the Mumbai champions to a 4-2 victory over Hindustan Aeronautics Limited in the Federation Cup football tournament.
Wales must have cool heads and not get carried away by the emotion of Thursday's all-British Euro 2016 Group B clash with England in Lens, manager Chris Coleman said on Monday. Coleman's side top the group after victory over Slovakia on Saturday, their first tournament match since 1958. A further win over England would guarantee Wales a place in the last 16 and pile huge pressure on Roy Hodgson's side. "We have to be streetwise. We don't have to rattle cages, they know what the atmosphere will be like, they have to be ice cold in their thinking and stick to a game plan," Coleman told a news conference on Monday.
"Mujhe poora yakin hai ki woh zor laga ke har samasya ka hal karenge (I have full confidence that he will do his best to solve every problem)," Manmohan Singh's wife Gursharan Kaur said in an interaction with newspersons in New Delhi today.
"Mujhe poora yakin hai ki woh zor laga ke har samasya ka hal karenge (I have full confidence that he will do his best to solve every problem)," Manmohan Singh's wife Gursharan Kaur said in an interaction with newspersons in New Delhi today.
India and France on Thursday signed four agreements in the field of aerospace and education with state-owned Hindustan Aeronautics Limited and French major Snecma Moteurs being the drivers of this cooperation.
First-half goals gave the Goan outfit a convincing 2-0 win over a depleted HAL in ther National Football League.
Kolkata soccer giant East Bengal returned to victory trail as they got the better of a fighting Salgaoncar from Goa 2-1 in their sixth National FootbaLL League tie at Salt Lake stadium.
'With Pakistan's 'first use doctrine' threatening the use of nuclear weapons early in a war with India, the S-400 will shield vulnerable targets like Delhi and Mumbai, complicating Pakistan's targeting calculations.'
The Congress has been attacking the Bharatiya Janata Party government on the defence deal, accusing Prime Minister Narendra Modi of causing loss to the state exchequer by buying the fighter jets at inflated rate.
'IAF is expanding at a rapid pace'
The Phagwara side won the National Football League match 2-1.
Singh received the aircraft at the Rafale fighter jet handing-over ceremony at Merignac in the presence of French Minister of Armed Forces Florence Parly. Members of the top military brass of France as well as senior officials of Dassault Aviation, the makers of Rafale, were also present at the ceremony.
'Under the present Defence Procurement Procedure, it would have been a nightmare, and a long, long one at that, to build 108 Rafales in India. Modi realised this and took the wise decision, though it is a definitive setback for his Make in India scheme.'
Air Chief Marshal B S Dhanoa said that no country in the world is facing the kind of grave threat that India is confronted with.
Randeep Surjewala also accused the government of "doublespeak" and "sacrificing" national interests.
Indo-Russian joint venture firm BrahMos Aerospace on Monday said it is developing a smaller version of the 290-km supersonic cruise missile for enabling its deployment on submarines and smaller fighter aircraft such as MiG 29K.
The IAF is down to 34 squadrons. This will dip to 30 squadrons by the end of this decade, as nine squadrons of MiG-21 and MiG-27s retire.
Churchill Brothers managed to ward off a stiff challenge in the second half to defeat HAL 1-0 in the eighth round of the National Football League at the Nehru Stadium.
On the pricing issue, Eric Trappier said that the present aircraft are cheaper by 9 per cent.
'The RSS guides us, never dictates.'
"I want to know from the Congress as to why it is agitated and telling lies repeatedly. Is it because there is no Quattrocchi mama or Christian Michel in defence deals done by the BJP government," Modi said.
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