Moscow: Russia accused Ukraine on Wednesday of deliberately shooting down a Russian military transport plane carrying 65 captured Ukrainian soldiers to a prisoner exchange, and a local official said all 74 people on board had been killed.Russian state media said six Russian crew members and three guards were on the Ilyushin Il-76 military transport plane which was shot down near the Russian city

PM Modi held a high-level review meeting with top officials on January 13 and told them to ensure total accountability in Indian defence planning. The meeting was attended by Dr PK Mishra, principal secretary to PM, Ajit Doval, National Security Adviser, Gen Anil Chauhan, Chief of Defence Staff, Admiral R Hari Kumar, Chief of Naval Staff, Giridhar Aramane, defence secretary, and Dr Samir V Kamat,

New Delhi: The Maldives has confirmed the docking of the Chinese research vessel Xiang Yang Hong-03 in Male, on Tuesday, which has raised security concerns in India, as India Sentinels had reported on Monday. The Indian government had raised objections when China sought permission from Male and Colombo to permit its spy ship to dock at their ports for deep water exploration within the Indian

In November, the Strategic Fleet Taskforce released a report which found that Australia needs a stronger strategic fleet and maritime workforce and noted that only 15 vessels over 2000 deadweight tonnes are Australian flagged. The taskforce, within the Department of Infrastructure, said few vessels, ‘in a crisis, we would have great difficulty accessing and controlling the maritime assets that we

Last year, the Indian National Space Promotion and Authorisation Centre (IN-SPACe) had issued an Expression of Interest for making ISRO’s small rocket SSLVAfter its two rockets — Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) and Small Satellite Launch Vehicle (SSLV) "the Indian space agency is now looking at making its heaviest rocket LVM3 under the public-private-partnership (PPP) model. The LVM3 is