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Pakistan Navy and the Pakistan Maritime Security Agency (PMSA) provided emergency assistance to the Indian vessel MV Gautam after a distress call from Mumbai, rescuing six Indian crew members and one Indonesian national in the Arabian Sea.The operation involved dispatching PMSA ship Kashmir, which delivered food, medical aid, and technical support to stabilise the vessel.The incident occurred when MV Gautam, an offshore tug and supply vessel en route from Oman to India, suffered a technical fault mid-voyage. The Maritime Rescue and Coordination Centre in Mumbai immediately contacted Pakistani authorities, requesting urgent help.Responding swiftly, the Pakistan Navy launched a humanitarian rescue…

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Union Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia has announced the establishment of a major defence arms manufacturing plant by the Adani Group in Kolaras, situated within his Guna parliamentary constituency.The project, valued at ₹2,500 crore, represents a significant investment in Madhya Pradesh’s industrial landscape and is expected to generate around 2,000 direct jobs.The announcement was made during Scindia’s visit to the Shivpuri-Kolaras area, where he emphasised that the facility would be operational within two months.The plant will be strategically located near the junction of the Kota Highway and the Mumbai-Gwalior Highway, approximately 70 kilometres from Guna. This positioning is intended to address the…

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India’s Defence Ministry has signed a ₹1,400 crore contract with Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL), Hyderabad, to supply five advanced ground-based mobile electronic systems (GBMES) to the Indian Army.The deal, inked in New Delhi in the presence of Defence Secretary Rajesh Kumar Singh, underscores India’s push for indigenous defence manufacturing under the Aatmanirbhar Bharat initiative.The agreement comes at a time of heightened global tensions, particularly in West Asia, where regional instability has underscored the importance of robust electronic warfare and surveillance capabilities. The systems, classified under the ‘Buy (Indian-Indigenously Designed, Developed and Manufactured)’ category, will feature at least 72% indigenous content, reinforcing…

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One year after the May 2025 conflict with India, Pakistan’s defence establishment is investing heavily in the material capacity to create situational openings – degrading Indian air defences through coordinated one-way effector (OWE) saturation, suppressing air bases with Fatah-II salvos, and disrupting command-and-control (C2) nodes via precision cruise missile strikes. The Army Rocket Force Command (ARFC), the expanding satellite constellation, and the emerging Integrated Battlefield Management System (IBFMS) are all designed to identify, track, and strike the highest-impact nodes available to India – and to do so at speed. However, a harder question sits beneath the procurement activity: has the…

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Zen Technologies marked the anniversary of Operation Sindoor with the unveiling of India’s first fully integrated, AI-powered anti-drone system, reported Bharat Shakti.The launch took place at the North Tech Symposium 2026 in Prayagraj, underscoring the urgency of countering emerging threats posed by swarm drones and low-cost unmanned platforms.The timing reflects a global military concern, as first-person-view drones and coordinated swarm attacks increasingly challenge conventional air defence systems.The company emphasised that the platform has been designed and developed indigenously, integrating both “soft kill” and “hard kill” options within a single architecture.It is capable of detecting and disrupting drone communications across a…

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