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Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman visited the Uttarlai Air Force base. (Photo: Twitter | @IAF_MCC)

Factual error in audit report on ammo shortage: Nirmala Sitharaman

The CAG report stated that the forces had ammunition for 20 days in the event of a war, instead of the minimum...

11 Sept 2017 12:38 PM IST

Dhanush artillery guns have a maximum strike range of around 36 km depending upon the ammunition being used.

Dhanush' to add to military might

Indigenously built Desi Bofors' gun system based on designs of Bofors howitzer.

26 March 2019 1:44 AM IST

Addressing a Martyrs Day rally, the Trinamool Congress (TMC) supremo Mamata Banerjee slammed the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). (Photo: Twitter/ ANI)

Mamata writes to PM Modi, urges to reverse corporatisation of ordnance...

'I request you to stall and reverse the process in the greater interest of national security,' Banerjee wrote in the...

23 July 2019 6:54 PM IST

The Indian Army has said an internal inquiry has shown that its troops killed three young men working as labourers in an apple orchard in Shopian. (DC file photo by H U Naqash)

Faulty ammunitions by Ordnance factories killed 27 personnel since...

In 2020, 13 personnel have suffered non-fatal injuries involving products supplied by Ordnance Factory.

30 Sept 2020 2:31 PM IST

Defence minister Rajnath Singh

Ordnance Factory Board to be split into 7 entities

The existing 41 factories under the OFB will now be subsumed into seven corporate entities

17 Jun 2021 9:37 AM IST

Since the surgical strikes by India on terrorist launch pads along the Line of Control on September 29, there have been over 280 incidents of firing and shelling in Jammu and Kashmir. (Photo: Representational Image)

Army upset over 7.62 mm assault rifle quality, OFB says ready for...

The Army pointed out that the assault rifle failed trials while deliberating that no one can meet its requirement in...

18 March 2018 9:00 PM IST

A carbine, seven revolvers and some cartridges seized by the STF from North 24 Parganas on display at Lalbazar in Kolkata on Monday. (Photo: Asian Age)

6 held for smuggling arms from rifle unit to Maoists

This was also the second time an RFI officer was arrested for allegedly smuggling parts of SLRs and INSAS rifles.

8 May 2018 1:24 AM IST