The Indian Air Force (IAF) is waiting for the "beautiful and capable" Rafale fighter jet, Vice Chief Air Marshal Shirish Baban Deo said on Wednesday, strongly batting for the aircraft whose purchase from a French maker has been mired in alleged financial irregularities.


IAF Vice Chief bats for 'beautiful', 'capable' Rafale


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Aerospace major Alpha Design Technologies on Tuesday opened a new facility to export defence electronic devices to Israel-based Elbit Systems valued at $14.5 million (Rs 103 crore).


Alpha to make defence electronic devices for Israeli firm


Aerospace major Lockheed Martin plans to produce the wings of its F-16 fighter aircraft in India.


Lockheed Martin to manufacture F-16 wings in India


The Asian Development Bank (ADB) on Tuesday launched its first Trade Finance Scorecard, a new tool to address market gaps stemming from the unintended consequences of global measures to fight money-laundering and terrorism.


ADB unveils new tool to boost access to trade finance


Indian Army chief General Bipin Rawat on Tuesday said court martial proceedings will be initiated against the officer who was caught with a woman in a Srinagar hotel on May 23 and he will be suitably punished.


Officer caught with Kashmiri woman faces punishment: Army Chief


An Indian Air Force (IAF) MiG-27 aircraft crashed near Jodhpur in Rajasthan during a routine mission on Tuesday but the pilot ejected safely, officials said.


MiG-27 crashes near Jodhpur


The Jammu and Kashmir Police on Tuesday said it had recovered a policeman's missing rifle.


Police recover missing rifle in J&K


With more and more enterprises in India aiming for digital transformation amid a growing economy, the country faces imminent cyber threats from rogue nation-state actors and a collective approach is the need of the hour, a top official from US-based Internet Society (ISOC) has stressed.


'Connected' India facing cyber threats from nation-state actors: Internet Society


An Indian Air Force (IAF) MiG aircraft crashed near Jodhpur in Rajasthan during a routine mission on Tuesday, the Defence PRO said. Both pilot and co-pilot ejected safely.


IAF MiG crashes near Jodhpur


India on Monday thanked Cyprus for extending support to New Delhi's bid for permanent membership in a reformed UN Security Council and also for the Nuclear Suppliers' Group.


India thanks Cyprus for support to candidature in expanded UNSC


A young man was shot dead during clashes between security forces and stone-pelters on Monday in Jammu and Kashmir's Pulwama district after a massive search operation was launched in around two dozen villages, police said.


Young protester shot dead in Kashmir Valley


In a bid to make Internet safe and secure in India, US-based nonprofit The Internet Society and the Internet Service Providers Association of India (ISPAI) on Monday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) that will look into securing routers which is vital for a healthy Internet infrastructure.


Internet Society, ISPAI join hands to secure Internet infrastructure in India


VMware, one of the largest enterprise software companies, says it has no problem with the demand by the Indian government to localise the servers used by big service providers to store users' data.


VMware to comply with Indian government's demand to localise data


The European Union (EU), which has been asking India to ratify the Budapest Convention on Cybercrime, is not willing to clarify the concept of the international treaty created by the Council of Europe, a top government official said here on Friday.


India can't be guest member of EU Budapest Convention: Dr Gulshan Rai


A crew member was killed when an helicopter of the Pakistan Navy crashed into Arabian Sea on Friday, media reported.


1 killed in Pakistan navy helicopter crash


The Bimstec regional bloc on Friday reiterated its resolve to provide seamless transport connectivity within its seven member states and renewed its commitment to an early free trade deal.


Bimstec commits itself to seamless connectivity, free trade area


Chinese handset maker Xiaomi on Friday announced it is migrating data of its Indian users to Cloud service providers Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure that have infrastructure in the country.


Migrating Indian users' data to local Cloud infrastructure: Xiaomi


All the 17 persons on-board were killed when an Ethiopian military helicopter crashed in Oromia regional state on Thursday, Ethiopia News Agency (ENA) reported.


17 killed in Ethiopian military helicopter crash


Taliban key commander Qari Qayum was among four militants who have been killed in Afghanistan's Baghlan province, an army spokesman said on Thursday.


Taliban key commander among 4 killed in Afghanistan


Increasing security breaches amid skill shortage will push enterprise spending on information security products and services in India to reach $1.7 billion in 2018, Gartner said on Thursday.


Indian enterprises to spend $1.7 bn on bolstering security in 2018


Cybercriminals are moving away from attention-grabbing ransomware attacks to more covert methods intended to steal money and valuable computing resources globally including in India, cyber security leader Trend Micro said on Thursday.

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