In a freak mishap, a 30 mm gun on board a Coast Guard ship went off accidentally when it was being repaired, damaging a portion of the Western Naval Command headquarters building in Mumbai.
In view of increased threat along maritime border with Pakistan, Navy will commission a new base near Porbandar in Gujarat to strengthen surveillance and security apparatus in the region.
Two Navy-escorted passenger ships with 475 people evacuated from the conflict-hit Yemen arrived in Kochi on Saturday.
Two US warships and a nuclear submarine will join the 'Malabar' series of exercises along with Indian Navy frigates and a German-made 'Shishumar' class HDW submarine.
The hull of INS Agray, which is part of the Navy's anti-submarine warfare squadron, was damaged resulting in flooding of the ship's engine room.
The defence ministry has taken the Election Commission's approval for appointment of a new navy chief after Admiral D K Joshi resigned on moral grounds after frequent mishaps in the force.
The deal is for surface-to-surface anti-ship Barak missiles.
A day after a civilian worker was killed in an accident at the under-construction nuclear submarine at Visakhapatnam, the defence ministry said that the incident was not connected with any nuclear-related activity and would not adversely affect the project or the work of the navy.
Close to 75 Indian warships and 24 from Navies across the globe are participating in the event.
Modi said even a few years ago, when India talked about the threats of terrorism, not many in the world were ready to take it seriously.
NavaL chief Admiral Madhvendera Singh said the warship, armed with a squadron of MiG-29k fighters, will be almost 70 per cent new.
Boeing also won a $4.5-billion contract for 10 C-17 Globemaster III transport aircraft, and will soon start delivery of $3 billion contracts to supply 22 AH-64E Apache attack helicopters and 15 CH-47F Chinook heavy lift helicopters., reports Ajai Shukla.
Two missiles were fired on Tuesday and on Wednesday on high speed targets, during naval exercises being undertaken in the Arabian Sea, a Defence spokesperson said, adding that this was a significant step towards Indian Navy's transformation into a force capable of projecting power in its area of interest.
Many countries including the United States and France have offered help to India in its ongoing operations to bring out bodies in the sunken submarine INS Sindhurakshak.
Spectacular IMAGES from the closing ceremony of the 2018 Winter Olympics held in Pyeongchang, South Korea
The Bombay High Court on Monday directed the Union and the state governments to file replies to a petition demanding that IMS Vikrant, India's first aircraft carrier, now decommissioned, be preserved and not scrapped.
Two operational missile groups of the Indian Army -- one with the 150-250 km short-range Prithvi missiles and the other in charge of the longer-version 2,500 km Agni missiles, would form the nucleus of the new Strategic Forces Command.
China has for the first time landed a military plane on one of its artificial islands in the disputed South China Sea.
Given the importance of equipment modernisation, the overall defence budget should rise at least at the same pace as salaries and pensions, so that equipment modernisation is not hit.
Ajai Shukla presents an action plan for Defence Minister Rajnath Singh to fix the systemic weaknesses in defence.
The sudden resignation by Admiral D K Joshi as navy chief in the wake of a spate of mishaps has been treated by the government as "voluntary retirement, which will ensure that he will not be deprived of any retirement benefits.
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