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India as an Indo-Pacific power has miles to go

Navy's capabilities are not in sync with the country's desired maritime profile

Fifty years of India's conflicts

Book review of Full Spectrum: India's Wars 1972-2020

Indian Naval ship to conduct exercise with Vietnamese Navy from Dec 26

An Indian Navy warship will undertake a "passage exercise" with the Vietnamese Navy in the South China Sea from December 26 to 27

Lacking firepower

Patrol vessels must have adequate combat capabilities

Boeing hard-sells Super Hornet, tests it for Indian Navy carriers

India offered advanced Block III Super Hornet, with five major enhancements

Sentinels of the seas: India is making offshore patrol vessels war-ready

Current generation of Coast Guard vessels, likely to be in service for several decades, remains under-armed

Cracking NEET to cooking up a storm: 5 stories that you might have missed

From Tamil Nadu girl cooking 46 dishes in 58 minutes to six students from Mumbai slum cracking NEET, here are five news items that are equally important and interesting in their own ways but failed to grab limelight.

In pictures: GRSE-built stealth frigate 'INS Himgiri' launched in Kolkata

GRSE-built first Project 17A stealth frigate, an addition to the might of the Indian Navy, was launched on Monday

Best of BS Opinion: Missing the signals on 5G, trimming sails, and more

Here's a selection of Business Standard opinion pieces for the day

Trimming sails

Need to ensure navy's plans and capabilities are harmonised

Navy finds itself fighting for relevance 49 years after Operation Trishul

The Navy's share of the defence Budget has declined from 18 per cent in 2012 to approximately 13 per cent, says Admiral Karambir Singh.

India kickstarts two-day naval drill with Russia in eastern Indian Ocean

India on Friday kick started a two-day naval exercise with Russia in eastern Indian Ocean, two weeks after it conducted the Malabar wargames with the US, Australia and Japan.

Ready to meet dual challenge from Covid and on LAC: Admiral Karambir Singh

Admiral Singh was emphatic about the navy requiring a third aircraft carrier

Navy to procure more submarines, other assets to boost combat: Naval chief

He said Chinese research ships and fishing vessels had been deployed in the IOR but there had been no infringement on Indian maritime zones

Indian Navy's MiG-29K trainer crashes over Arabian Sea; one pilot missing

A MiG-29K fighter trainer jet of the Indian Navy met with an accident at sea evening after which one of the two pilots has been missing while the other one has been recovered

Moving in elite company, Indian Navy grapples with serious shortfalls

There is concern in South Block at the poor state of readiness of the navy's 140-odd warships, which face severe shortages in sonar equipment, helicopters and torpedoes

Watch: Malabar war games of four friendly navies that could upset China

The Indian Navy's Vikramaditya carrier battle group, the Nimitz strike group of the US Navy and several frontline warships from the Australian and Japanese navies are carrying out a four-day high-intensity war game in the Northern Arabian Sea as part of the second phase of the Malabar exercise. This exercise involves coordinated operations of increasing complexity among the navies of the four countries which are part of the Quad or Quadrilateral Coalition. The first phase of the Malabar exercise took place in the Bay of Bengal from November 3 to 6 and featured a number of complex drills including anti-submarine and anti-air warfare operations. The mega exercise is taking place at a time India and China are locked in an over six-month-long bitter border standoff in eastern Ladakh that has majorly strained the ties between the two countries.

Indian Navy receives ninth P-8I surveillance plane at Goa naval airbase

In a major boost to its anti-submarine warfare capabilities, the Indian Navy on Wednesday received its ninth P-8I surveillance plane at its naval airbase in Goa

Defence equipment: To lease or not to lease, opinion divides govt

Some argue policy will tie the hands of defence ministry bureaucrats; others call it path-breaking

Second phase of Malabar naval exercise in Arabian Sea begins today

The mega exercise is taking place at a time India and China are locked in an over six-month-long bitter border standoff in eastern Ladakh.