Pakistan on Tuesday increased its defence budget by 20 per cent, allocating PRs. 2,550 billion ($9 billion) for the fiscal year 2025-26, amid tensions with India. IMAGE: A Pakistani soldier......
'Make-in-India played a key role in India's effective action against terrorism during Operation Sindoor.' IMAGE: The Indian Army's Trishakti Corps demonstrates operational excellence during a fire......
China on Wednesday announced a 7.2 per cent increase of its national defence budget totalling to USD 249 billion this year amid its hectic efforts to modernise armed forces, including fast paced......
Defence expenditure was pegged at 1.4 per cent of GDP in the Budget for 2025-26 but it may widen, depending on tensions between India and Pakistan. Photograph: Francis Mascarenhas/Reuters The......
India on Saturday set aside Rs 6,81,210 crore as defence outlay for 2025-26 in a 9.53 per cent increase over the allocation of Rs 6.22 lakh crore for current fiscal amid the military's push to......
The ministries of Road Transport & Highways and Railways have exceeded the national average capital expenditure (capex) by spending 63 per cent and 57 per cent of Budget estimates (BE),......
The most worrying aspect of defence budgeting is that the military’s long-term equipment planning is based on fundamentally flawed fiscal assumptions. The interim Budget’s allocations......
The capital outlay for the three services, for modernisation, stood at Rs 78,586.68 crore The defence budget was on Monday increased by 9.76 per cent to Rs 2.58 lakh crore for the next fiscal as......
The presentation of annual defence budget is an exercise in futility. The increase in defence budget from Rs.147,344 crore (Rs 1,473.44 billion) in fiscal 2010-11 to 164,415 crore (Rs 1,644.15......
With several defence deals including the one to procure 126 combat aircraft for the IAF expected to be clinched this year, the Defence Budget was on Friday substantially hiked by more than 17 per......