Laser weapons could be the future of warfare, and hence there is a worldwide interest in acquiring such system. DRDO is reported to have achieved a fairly advanced stage of testing a real prototypeIn 2022, the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) tested a 100-kilowatt lightweight directed-energy weapon (DEW) called the Directionally Unrestricted Ray-Gun Array (DURGA) II. The DEW

French Foreign Minister Stéphane Sejourne will arrive in China on April 1 to meet with PRC Foreign Minister Wang Yi. Lin Jiang, the official representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China, announced this during the briefing."At the invitation of Wang Yi, the member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the Minister of

Snubbed in 2013, France’s Macron makes a new Rafale sales push in Brazil. Ten years after Brazil rejected Rafale fighters, Macron launches a new drive to sell the jets, banking on Brazil’s rapid rearmament ambitions. Will Brazil Be Away From Gripen Jets?by Joseph P ChackoOn March 27, in front of the French community in Sao Paulo, French President Emmanuel Macron lauded the renewed alliance with

Washington: China has been raising objections to the US-Japan plans to upgrade their security alliance, saying it does not want to be a ‘target’ of the defence plans, Voice of America (VOA) reported.The defence plans that are expected to be announced at a summit in April are being considered the biggest upgrade to the security alliance between Washington and Tokyo in decades."China always

Gilgit-Baltistan: The students of Government Boys Degree College in Skardu staged massive protests by blocking roads while demanding uninterrupted power supply in the area.The students organised this sit-in on Friday to raise their voices, claiming that they have not had any power at the college or the hostel for more than a month.A science student complained that they were not able to perform

Islamabad: In the wake of the suicide bomb attack that claimed the lives of five Chinese nationals, Chinese investigators arrived in Pakistan to probe the incident, The News International reported, citing Pakistan’s interior ministry.According to the report, the incident that occurred on March 26 was the third major attack in little over a week on China-invested infrastructural projects, where