Navy Chief Admiral Dk Joshi

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  Seven Navy Officers Punished For INS Sindhuratna Accident: Sources

  Seven officers of the Indian Navy who were found guilty have been punished in relation to the accident on the INS Sindhuratna, the submarine that suffered an on-board fire on February 26, 2014. Senior Defence Ministry officials have told NDTV that the seven officers, including the submarine's Commanding Officer, have been found guilty of negligence...

• Meet Robin K Dhowan, India's new Navy Chief

  Had Admiral D K Joshi not resigned suddenly from the post of Chief of Naval Staff (CONS) on February 26, his deputy, Vice Admiral Robin K Dhowan would probably have been pursuing his favourite pastime of golfing and yatching after his retirement on May 31. But he has now been pushed into the limelight, forced by providence to take over as the Naval...

• Visakhapatnam: One killed, two hurt in accident at nuclear submarine construction site

  One worker was killed and two others injured in an accident at a shipbuilding centre in Visakhapatnam where India is building its first class of three nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarines. The incident took place when the pressure of the hydraulic tank of the Arihant class submarine was being tested and the tank's lid fell on the workers a...

• My decision alone, only consulted my wife: Admiral DK Joshi on quitting as Navy Chief

  Admiral DK Joshi, who stunned the country yesterday by resigning as Navy Chief taking moral responsibility over a series of accidents, has said that he had only consulted his wife on the decision.

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  Two officers died in fire on board submarine INS Sindhuratna, confirms Navy

  Two officers who were missing since the fire on board submarine INS Sindhuratna on Wednesday have died, the navy today confirmed. Their bodies were found after the submarine was brought back to the Mumbai coast this morning. Navy Chief Admiral DK Joshi resigned yesterday taking moral responsibility for accidents on his watch.

• Government's big dilemma: who should be next Navy Chief

  A day after Admiral DK Joshi resigned as Navy Chief, the government is faced with a big dilemma in picking his successor. Although Vice Admiral Robin K Dhowan has been appointed as acting Naval Chief, it is still not certain who the government will choose as the next man to head the beleaguered Indian Navy.

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  Indian Navy's 10 mishaps in last seven months

  Navy Chief Admiral DK Joshi has resigned after an accident onboard submarine INS Sindhuratna off Mumbai coast early on Wednesday. This was the 10th mishap involving an Indian Navy warship in the last seven months.

• Defence Ministry's statement on Admiral DK Joshi's resignation as Navy Chief

  Admiral DK Joshi today resigned as the Chief of Naval Staff hours after a fire broke out in INS Sindhuratna, a submarine of the Indian navy, early this morning.

• Navy chief Admiral DK Joshi resigns taking responsibility for submarine accidents

  Navy Chief Admiral D K Joshi has resigned after a submarine accident off the shore of Mumbai this morning.

• Navy chief Admiral DK Joshi to NDTV: Full transcript

  The year 2013 has been a significant landmark in Indian Navy's history.

• Indian Navy can operate in distant waters, poised for major expansion: Navy Chief Admiral DK Joshi to NDTV

  India's Navy Chief Admiral DK Joshi, speaking exclusively to NDTV on board INS Jalashwa, the navy's second-largest ship, said the Indian Navy is indeed poised for a major expansion.

• Salvage contract for submarine Sindhurakshak, which exploded and sank, to be finalised soon: Navy chief

  The explosion onboard INS Sindhurakshak in August had sunk the submarine in the Mumbai harbour and killed 18 sailors on board.

• 18 sailors on INS Sindhurakshak, eight of them married

  "There were 15 sailors, six married; three officers, two of them married; no one rescued so far", said the Navy's chief on Wednesday evening about the 18 men who were on board India's front line submarine, the INS Sindhurakshak, when it sank after an explosion and fire at dawn today.

• Safety mechanisms on INS Sindhurakshak failed, admits Navy chief

  One of Indian Navy's most advanced non-nuclear submarines, INS Sindhurakshak, exploded and sank on Wednesday in Mumbai. Three officers and 15 sailors on board are feared dead in what is being described as Navy's worst disaster in over three decades. Navy chief Admiral DK Joshi admitted that safety mechanisms did not work on the fully-armed submari...

• Vice Admiral DK Joshi to be India's next Naval Chief

  Vice Admiral Devendra Kumar Joshi, Western Naval Command Chief and a specialist in anti-submarine warfare, has been named as the new Navy Chief. He succeeds Admiral Nirmal Verma whose tenure ends on August 31.