Over 10 years (2006-15), Uttar Pradesh (UP) transferred Indian Police Service (IPS) officers at four times the Indian average, according to an analysis of Bureau of Police Research and Development (BPRD) data.Read News

The Indian Army has a major challenge in Jammu and Kashmir this year - to bring down its casualties which saw a steep rise last year compared to previous years. Experts said that the changing tactics of the militants.Read News

The peremptory rejection of the shipborne variant of the Tejas light combat aircraft (LCA) by the Indian Navy seems to have surprised most navy-watching analysts. Their confusion has been compounded by the near-simultaneous issuance of a global request for information (RFI) for procurement of "57 multirole fighters for its aircraft carriers" by Naval HQ. Read News

In a year that saw surgical strikes, a new Defence Procurement Procedure (DPP) and strengthening relations with both Russia and the US, the Defence Ministry had many firsts, but also could not escape controversies, including those around the 7th Pay Commission recommendations and One Rank One Pension (OROP).Read News

The dogfight for picking the Multi Role Combat Aircraft (MRCA) for the security of the Indian skies is beginning anew, this time for a much larger number than the 2007 figure of 189 asked by the Indian Air Force (IAF) - an estimated 400 for the Indian Air Force (IAF) and 60 for the Indian Navy. Read News

Anti Indian regimes of Bangladesh some years ago, before Sheikh Hasina came back to power organized anti India tirade and encouraged fundamentalists. A comprehensive plan for a second partition of India was first developed by the Mughalstan Research Institute (MRI) of Jahangir Nagar University, Bangladesh.Read News

Equipment supplied by French aerospace major Thales will constitute 25 per cent of the value of the $8.9 billion deal for 36 Rafale combat jets that India and France inked last month, the companys India head has said.Read News

As part of greater indigenisation in the defence sector and the 'Make in India' initiative, leading electronic devices manufacturer Alpha Design Technologies Ltd is setting up three hi-tech simulators for the Indian Air Force (IAF) to train its pilots to fly fighters and helicopters.Read News

India plays an important role in establishing peace in the region, a senior officer of Britain's Royal Air Force (RAF) has said, even as he stressed that the armed forces are essentially meant to avoid war. Turner, however, refused to comment on the ongoing tension between India and Pakistan. Read News

China remains India's primary security challenge because of its assertiveness on the border dispute, a report by a think-tank in the UK said.Read News