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22 stories for “Defence” · September 2026
Clear filtersDefence Minister Rajnath Singh flagged off the First Ascent Mountaineering Expedition in New Delhi on 25 September 2026. The team had climbed 20 previously unclimbed peaks above 6,000 metres in Ladakh within 23 days. The...
The Indian Navy's INS Trishul has arrived at Toulon, France, to take part in the 24th edition of Exercise VARUNA. VARUNA is the annual bilateral naval exercise between the Indian Navy and the French Navy, and it helps th...
KAL, India's first indigenous long-range One-Way Attack (OWA) drone, was successfully flight-tested at Pokhran, Rajasthan, in September 2026. An OWA drone is an unmanned aircraft built to fly to a designated target and s...
The 18th edition of Exercise NOMADIC ELEPHANT, the annual bilateral military exercise between India and Mongolia, has begun at Pithoragarh in Uttarakhand. Held every year, the exercise allows troops of both countries to...
DRDO is developing a 30 kilowatt (kW) directed-energy weapon (DEW) under the Integrated Drone Detection and Interdiction System (IDD&IS) Mk-II(A). The system is designed to neutralise drones and surveillance sensors at r...
The keel of the Indian Navy's first Next Generation Missile Vessel (NGMV) has been laid at Cochin Shipyard Limited (CSL) in Kochi, Kerala. Keel laying is the formal start of a warship's construction on the building berth...
India and Sri Lanka have started the 13th edition of SLINEX-26, their bilateral naval exercise, at Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh.
UN Women and the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA) released the Gender Snapshot 2026 report. It finds that one in three institutional mechanisms for gender equality saw their power reduced in the las...
The Union Home Minister inaugurated the two-day 9th National Security Strategies (NSS) Conference 2026 in New Delhi. Sessions covered counter-terrorism, intelligence sharing through the Multi Agency Centre (MAC), narcoti...
India has become a dialogue partner in Tempest, the sixth-generation fighter jet programme jointly developed by the United Kingdom, Japan and Italy, with induction planned from 2034. The status lets India discuss the pro...
The Indian Air Force (IAF) launched its first Dronathon-2026 at the Pokhran Field Firing Range in Jaisalmer, Rajasthan. The event tests drone capabilities in surveillance, reconnaissance, autonomous operations, swarm tec...
A new DRDO weapon and missile testing range has been proposed at Junput in Purba Medinipur district, West Bengal. Once set up, Junput will be DRDO's third major testing hub, after the Chandipur facilities and the testing...
