Indian purchasing agency OKs tank buy, but negotiations with Russia stand in the way

NEW DELHI — India’s highest defense procurement body, the Cabinet Committee on Security, has approved purchase of 464 Russian T-90MS main battle tanks for $1.92 billion, but it’s unlikely the Ministry of... Read more »

One of the world’s largest providers of industrial drone solutions is opening its hub in India

In a bid to speed up the development of drones in India, Japan-based Terra Drone Corporation, Terra Drone India and the Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad, on Thursday announced that they have signed a pact to... Read more »

Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) to install CCTV camera at Monorail station

MUMBAI: Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) has told Bombay high court it will install a CCTV camera below a Monorail station to get immediate alerts in case of a fire at... Read more »

German police select JENETRIC fingerprint tech for biometric border security

JENETRIC announced that its LIVETOUCH QUATTRO tenprint scanner has been selected by the German Federal Police to equip the borders as part of the European Entry and Exit System. The multi-year contract for... Read more »

4th in row, Rajasthan Police to rollout Udaipur to become Rajasthan Police Mobile App based security for all vehicles

The Digital Parking mobile app is an innovative approach undertaken by Rajasthan Police to mitigate risks of vehicle thefts as well  as increase the probability of quick location and recovery of stolen... Read more »

Kalyani group, and Thales teamup to develop NextGen weapons systems

Kalyani Group and Thales have formalised a new collaboration for the design, development and manufacture of next generation weapons systems for the Defence and Law Enforcement sectors in India and abroad, its... Read more »

Suprema launches compact facial recognition terminal for access control, time attendance

Suprema has launched FaceLite, a compact facial recognition terminal designed for enterprise access control systems and time and attendance applications. According to the announcement, FaceLite comes loaded with a powerful 1.2GHz CPU and... Read more »

Can’t Compel Armed Forces to Procure ‘Make in India’ Weapons, Says Nirmala Sitharaman

The government cannot force the Indian armed forces to buy indigenous weapons, said Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, after inaugurating a defence exhibition that is aimed at projecting India as a global force... Read more »

View: Defence Industrial Base And Corporate Professional Responsibility

by Lt Gen Anil Kapoor  Global competitiveness has always been a challenge for every country. Speaking of defence technologies and equipment, the competition gets tremendously accentuated due to the common competing space... Read more »

Russian S-500, S-350 Air Defence Systems ‘Almost Ready’

Russian S-500 and S-350 air defence systems, successors to the S-400 and S-350 respectively, are ‘almost ready,’ for deployment. The two new systems have several advancements over the S-400 and S-300, Sputnik... Read more »