Defense

The win is also expected to bring good tidings for Indian defense vendors and to small and medium entrepreneurs (Hall 4) awaiting big contracts as the country aggressively moves forward in its “Make in India” mode.

“The Cabinet Committee on Security headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi has cleared the setting up of this new agency called the Defence Space Research Agency (DSRA) which has been entrusted with the task of creating space warfare weapon systems and technologies,” sources in the Defence Ministry told ANI.

The Himachal Government on the request of the Ministry of Home Affairs explored the possibilities of transfer of land under tea along with change of land use (CLU) to the Ministry of Defence.

The government, which has already committed Rs. 3,500 crore to develop the fighter, needs a straight answer. Will the prototypes of the Tejas-N (Naval), now being tested, eventually result in a multi-role carrier-borne fighter good enough to hold its own against emerging threats in the Indian Ocean region?

The aircraft carrying six officers, five airmen and two non-combatants (enrolled) took off from Jorhat in Assam at 12.27 pm on June 3 for the Mechuka Advance Landing Ground in Arunachal Pradesh, where it was supposed to reach at 1.30 pm. The weather over the region was turbulent on the day and the aircraft’s last contact with ground agencies was at around 1.00 pm.

According to industry sources, the French firm has already carried out a test production of certain parts that could be manufactured here. A formal announcement to this effect, they said, could come in September, when the first of the 36 Rafale ordered by the Indian Air Force are handed over in France.

The Centre had late last year set up a special task force to identify areas for use of space technology. It was headed by the joint secretary (border management), with members from the Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) and Border Guarding Forces (BGFs).

The project—the first in Jammu & Kashmir—is among the 13 emergency landing strips planned by the government on highways across the country.
The Srinagar-Banihal highway landing strip will be 3.5-km long and can be constructed in eight months at a cost of nearly Rs 119 crore.
The sites have been jointly identified by the Indian Air Force (IAF) and National Highways Authority of India (NHAI).

Foreign nations where the possibility of exports is the highest have been placed under category A. Defence attaches in these countries will get $50,000 annually while other nations are in categories B and C and will get lower allocations. A total of Rs 16 crore is planned to be spent on the scheme initially.

Large sections of the machines have been built in India by companies including Bengaluru based Dynamatic Technologies Ltd, which was one of the first companies in the private sector to be approved by Boeing to be a supplier and the Tata- Boeing joint venture which has built the complete fuselage.