News: Amid a raging controversy over the draft IIM bill, government said it was prepared by a committee headed by former chairman of IIM Trichy’s board of governors M Damodaran and finalised after considering the observations and suggestions of the IIMs. “The observations and suggestions of the IIMs were considered ...

News: Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar said the government has taken steps to mitigate the deficiencies in some of the critical ammunition on priority. Steps taken: Second Five Year Ammunition Roll on indent for the period 2014-19 has been placed on Ordnance Factory Board (OFB). A road map on ammunition has ...

News: Spike is a third generation, fire-and-forget, man-portable, anti-tank missile. Rafael of Israel and India’s Kalyani Group are forming a manufacturing Joint Venture (JV) to produce Spike Anti-Tank Guided Missiles (ATGM) in India and Bharat Dynamics Limited (BDL) will be the system integrator. Source: DefenceNews