Seoul/Washington: “North Korea will soon conduct tests of the intercontinental ballistic missiles, capable of reaching up to the United States,” declared the dictator of North Korea, Kim Jong-Un. He also indicated that the intercontinental missiles could be launched loaded with ‘hydrogen bombs’.The United States has expressed its outrage at this announcement, while the United States […]
Washington – US President Barack Obama has approved the defense budget draft which included giving more importance to defense partnership with India. Obama has approved a “National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) which proposes to appoint a special officer to increase India’s defense partnership with the US. At the same time it was made clear that […]
Adelaide: Australian Prime Minister, Malcolm Turnbull and the French Defence Minister, Jean-Yves Le Drian sign an ambitious 37 billion dollar contract. As per the contract, France is to provide 12 state-of-the-art’ stealth submarines’ to Australia. The ‘Shortfin Barracuda’ submarines are to be built by the French shipbuilding company DCNS and the entire construction is to […]
Beijing : China has approved the controversial cyber security act, putting forth the reason of cyber attacks and terrorism. Having made difficult the entry for companies with foreign technology in China due to this new act, they have been imposed with restrictions upon information storage and security. Since this act has been imposed despite the expressed unhappiness of foreign companies […]
Sonar (originally an acronym for SOund Navigation And Ranging) is a technique that uses sound propagation (usually underwater, as in submarine navigation) to navigate, communicate with or detect objects on or under the surface of the water, such as other vessels. Two types of technology share the name “sonar”: passive sonar is essentially listening for […]
Moscow : Russian President, Vladimir Putin, has declared to deploy nuclear missiles closer to Europe, in response to the aggressive strides by NATO. According to sources, as per Putin’s declaration, the deployment of these nuclear-capable ‘Iskander’ missiles and state-of-the-art ‘S-400’missiles systems has begun. This deployment is happening in the Russian military enclave in Kaliningrad in […]
Mumbai : On Monday, the largest-ever indigenous destroyer ‘INS Chennai’ was inducted into the Indian Navy in the presence of the Defence Minister, Manohar Parrikar. ‘INS Chennai’ is the third ‘Kolkata’ class destroyer and it was constructed in the ‘Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders Limited’. During the event, Defence Minister Parrikar warned in clear words that even […]
New Delhi : World over efforts are on to eliminate paper from our day-to-day functioning by adapting to e-commerce. Most countries have more or less progressed on this front, including the Indian Government. Given this scenario, India for the future would need a very capable cloud service facility to handle all its e-based data and information. […]
Tokyo – India and Japan have signed the civil nuclear energy agreement. During the Japan visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, both the countries have agreed upon 10 cooperative deals which include sectors like development of fundamental amenities, Space exploration, agriculture, etc. But the civil nuclear agreement between the two countries has drawn most attention. […]
Riyadh : The indications given by the Russian President, Vladimir Putin in the last month concerning collaborations with Saudi Arabia are beginning to materialise. On Sunday, Russia and Saudi Arabia signed a coherent mutual agreement for oil market collaborations. While there has been unanimity between both countries regarding the stability of the oil market, Saudi […]