Addressing an annual meeting of the Confederation of Indian Industry in New Delhi, India's Finance Minister and interim Minister for Defense, Arun Jaitley, said that the Government of India is in an advanced stage of formulating a new defense manufacturing policy that will enable India to become a manufacturing hub....
Ash Carter: U.S. and India Destined to be Strategic Partners
CNN Politics reports that outgoing U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter was in Delhi in the second week of December in a last bid to boost relations with an ally that could prove crucial to U.S.-India defense relations. En route to New Delhi, Carter told reporters, "India and the United States...
India Leads in Import of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
Based on data related to imports/exports of drones between 1985 and 2014, India tops the list of drone-importing nations with 22.5 percent of the world's unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) imports says a report on SiliconIndia News. These pilot-less aerial vehicles are used for reconnaissance, surveillance, intelligence gathering and aerial combat...