INS Viraat heads for 5-month long refit, setback for Navy plans

It looks as if India's plan to have three carrier battle groups, centred around INS Viraat, INS Vikramaditya and an indigenously built aircraft carrier in Cochin shipyard, has suffered a huge......

SC rejects plea against dismantling of INS Viraat

The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed a plea of a private firm seeking preservation of India's decommissioned aircraft carrier 'Viraat' and its conversion into a museum. A bench of Chief Justice S......

INS Viraat to be dismantled in Gujarat and sold as scrap

INS Viraat, the aircraft carrier that served the Indian Navy for 30 years before being decommissioned three years ago, is likely to be towed from Mumbai to Alang in Gujarat's Bhavnagar district......

What should be done with INS Viraat? Tell us

Even though Indian Navy's 27,800-tonne aircraft carrier INS Viraat sailed into history on Monday with the final lowering of the naval ensign and commissioning pendant in a solemn ceremony at......