Strategic Support Force

Over 120 warships of extra-regional forces are currently deployed in the Indian Ocean Region in support of various missions, Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat said on Friday, referring to increasing maritime presence of various countries in the strategic sea lanes.

India's gross domestic product or GDP is widely expected to have shrunk in the April-June period, as data covering the quarter fully captures the damage caused by the fast-spreading coronavirus pandemic. Many economists expect the country to suffer its worst quarterly de-growth since the mid-1990s, with estimates of contraction as bad as 25.9 per c...

India today agreed to provide Afghanistan further assistance to strengthen its security forces as the two strategic partners decided to deepen security cooperation and resolved to work closely to deal with the challenge of cross-border terrorism from Pakistan.

China will downsize its 2.3 million-strong army, the world's largest, to under one million in the biggest troop reduction in its history as part of a restructuring process, an official Chinese daily said.

China's newly-formed Rocket Force, a revamped unit of its strategic missile force may include nuclear submarines and bombers, making it the first independent unit in the world with integrated land, sea and air nuclear forces, the Chinese military said.

China's second aircraft carrier, which is now under construction, will focus more on military operations training and technological experiments to improve its defence systems as the 2.3 million strong People's Liberation Army (PLA) undergoes massive revamp.

A spokesman for the United States led coalition in Afghanistan says North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) has so far found no evidence to support Afghan allegations of misconduct by American Special Forces in a strategic eastern province.

The US and Afghanistan reached a deal on Sunday on a long-delayed strategic partnership agreement that ensures Americans will provide military and financial support to the Afghan people for at least a decade beyond 2014, the deadline for most foreign forces to withdraw. The pact is key to the US exit strategy in Afghanistan because it establishes ...

Libyan rebels have announced an amnesty for anyone within Col Muammar Gaddafi's "inner circle" who captures or kills him, and a $1.7m (£1m) reward. The head of the National Transitional Council (NTC), Mustafa Abdel Jalil, announced the amnesty offer from the eastern city of Benghazi. "Gaddafi's forces and his accomplices will not stop resisting ...

Over 120 warships of extra-regional forces are currently deployed in the Indian Ocean Region in support of various missions, Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat said on Friday, referring to increasing maritime presence of various countries in the strategic sea lanes.

India's gross domestic product or GDP is widely expected to have shrunk in the April-June period, as data covering the quarter fully captures the damage caused by the fast-spreading coronavirus pandemic. Many economists expect the country to suffer its worst quarterly de-growth since the mid-1990s, with estimates of contraction as bad as 25.9 per c...

India today agreed to provide Afghanistan further assistance to strengthen its security forces as the two strategic partners decided to deepen security cooperation and resolved to work closely to deal with the challenge of cross-border terrorism from Pakistan.

China will downsize its 2.3 million-strong army, the world's largest, to under one million in the biggest troop reduction in its history as part of a restructuring process, an official Chinese daily said.

China's newly-formed Rocket Force, a revamped unit of its strategic missile force may include nuclear submarines and bombers, making it the first independent unit in the world with integrated land, sea and air nuclear forces, the Chinese military said.

China's second aircraft carrier, which is now under construction, will focus more on military operations training and technological experiments to improve its defence systems as the 2.3 million strong People's Liberation Army (PLA) undergoes massive revamp.

A spokesman for the United States led coalition in Afghanistan says North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) has so far found no evidence to support Afghan allegations of misconduct by American Special Forces in a strategic eastern province.

The US and Afghanistan reached a deal on Sunday on a long-delayed strategic partnership agreement that ensures Americans will provide military and financial support to the Afghan people for at least a decade beyond 2014, the deadline for most foreign forces to withdraw. The pact is key to the US exit strategy in Afghanistan because it establishes ...

Libyan rebels have announced an amnesty for anyone within Col Muammar Gaddafi's "inner circle" who captures or kills him, and a $1.7m (£1m) reward. The head of the National Transitional Council (NTC), Mustafa Abdel Jalil, announced the amnesty offer from the eastern city of Benghazi. "Gaddafi's forces and his accomplices will not stop resisting ...