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As Hunt For An-32 Wreckage Stretches, Did Emergency Locator Beacon Not Work?
An Indian Air Force Antonov An-32 tactical transport aircraft is believed to have crashed today in the eastern state of Arunachal Pradesh. The aircraft had taken off from the Jorhat air force base about 200 km away from its destination,…
10 Top Modernisation Priorities For India’s New Defence Minister
The landslide election victory by India’s Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) has led to an expected shuffle of top ministerial portfolios. India’s new defence minister is now Rajnath Singh, who moves in after a stint as the country’s Home Minister. He…
Deconstructing Pak’s Missile Muddle: Conclusive Evidence, Or Elaborate Trick?
By MIHIR SHAH Why has a grainy photograph, purportedly showing four damaged air-to-air missiles, become the centrepiece of a fresh controversy over the outcome of the India-Pakistan air battle on February 27? On February 26, sometime around 3:00 am, a…
Fighting For Son’s Honour, Army Major’s Mother Puts Government On Notice
This week, on March 25, Meghna Girish wrote to India’s Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman. The letter was the latest of several she has written since her Army officer son, Major Akshay Girish of the Army’s 51 Engineer Regiment, died fighting…