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The tradition of a salute has huge importance in the army. But do you know how the tradition begun or what a salute means? When a soldier salutes his superiors, his right hand goes up on his forehead with his palm showing. What this means is that he has no weapon hidden up anywhere and that his...

avy and the Coast Guard are carrying out operations simulating 26/11-type attacks to prepare themselves to tackle such incidents in future and a similar drill is being planned in Mumbai around the date the militants struck last year. The focus of the operations, being conducted since last...

On July 26 this year, India joined the select group of five nations to have its own nuclear propelled and nuclear armed submarine called Arihant. Code-named Advanced Technology Vessel (ATV), the submarine is a project conceived in the 70s and initiated by Indira Gandhi in the 80s. It was a...

The dream of over a quarter of a century will be fulfilled today when Ms Gursharan Kaur, wife of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, breaks the coconut on the hull of India’s first indigenously constructed nuclear- propelled ballistic missile submarine — called a boomer in popular parlance — at a...

By : Zee News French naval defence system contractor DCNS on Wednesday said there had been initial "teething trouble" in the transfer of technology for the Indian Navy's Scorpene submarine project but they had been resolved. Three of the six Scorpene submarines are being built at the...

BY : Express Buzz India has deployed naval ships and put fighters on standby across the country as it waits for definitive Pakistani action to bring the terror brains to book. Top sources told to this website's newspaper that the Indian Air Force had fully armed its strike fighters as well...

BY : TNN With the gigantic Rs 18,798-crore project to construct six French Scorpene killer submarines at Mazagon Docks in Mumbai finally gainin g momentum, India’s hunt for six new-generation submarines in a mammoth project worth well over Rs 30,000 crore is now well underway...