The test flight is a victory for public sector undertaking Hindustan Aeronautics Limited, which has strongly backed the Hindustan Turbo Trainer-40 project, defying a skeptical Indian Air Force

The Modi government has not lived up to the muscularity the prime minister promised while campaigning, says Ajai Shukla

The Modi government has not lived up to the muscularity the prime minister promised while campaigning, says Ajai Shukla.

Cancelling Uighur leader Dolkun Isa's visa could have been a mutual face-saving exercise for New Delhi and Beijing.

Opposition to tri-service structures comes not just from bureaucrats and politicians as the generals like to lament, but equally from within the military. Neither the army, navy or air force chiefs want to relinquish control over their theatre commands, with these cutting edge units placed under some commander who reports elsewhere, says Ajai Shukla.

'Worryingly, intelligence assessments indicate that growing disaffection amongst the youth is ceding ground to fundamentalist Islamist groups like Islamic State,' reports Ajai Shukla.

New Delhi remains a priggish suitor to Washington's overtures, but it has begun appreciating potential tech benefits to ties with the US.

Cyberspace is a battleground as important as the traditional domains of air, land, sea and space, says US Defence Secretary Ash Carter, who visits India next week.

Army gave three good reasons why it could not build the bridges for Ravi Shankar's event. Defence ministry overruled the army's objections, reveals Ajai Shukla.

The foundations of the army's own peculiar secularism are potentially being destabilised

The disagreement over liability further complicates any early conclusion of the Rafale contract.

Many senior officers believe the chief should have taken a stronger stand against using army resources to help what one officer calls "a government-friendly godman".

Unimaginative increments, persistent refusal of funds have turned the military into an underfed child scared to ask for a full meal.

In a boost to 'Make in India, the HTT-40 rolled out of the hangar with all its lights flashing and its cockpit powered on.

Once in each President's term in office, he or she carries out a "naval fleet review", a deliberately public assembly of the entire fleet.

Starting as a maker of hydraulic pumps, the Bengaluru-based company graduated to components for automakers like BMW and Audi, and then Airbus and Boeing

India should adopt a pro-active strategy on Pakistan -- catalysing, facilitating and making room for a change in its anti-India posture.

The Kamov-226T indigenisation has been complicated by an unusually detailed Inter-Governmental Agreement.

At least 40% of a product must be manufactured in India for it to qualify for the Indian Designed, Developed and Manufactured category.

It is learnt that the Aeronautical Development Agency, which oversees the development of Tejas, has put together a flying routine that 'significantly surpasses any aerobatics display the fighter has presented earlier'.