BEIJING: Amid global unease about PLA‘s increasingly aggressive behaviour, China Sunday hiked its defence budget by 7.2%, marginally higher than last year, to 1.55 trillion yuan (about $225 billion), marking the eighth consecutive year of increase in military spending. China increases def budget 7.2% to $224bn, 8th consecutive hikeChina will boost defence spending 7.2% this […]
NEW DELHI: With a hawk eye on China, the government has sanctioned seven new battalions of the Indo Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) which will come up in the next few years.India’s decision to bolster its border security forces comes amid continous tensions with neighbour China that led to deadly border clashes in 2020 and scuffles […]
NEW DELHI: The defence budget registered a modest hike despite the continuing 33-month long troop confrontation along the frontier with China. Moreover, the allocation for military modernization was just over one-fourth of the total outlay due to the hefty revenue expenditure and pension bill.The defence budget was pegged at Rs 5.93 lakh crore ($72.4 billion), […]
NEW DELHI: China has ‘slightly increased’ the number of its troops along the eastern sector of the Line of Actual Control (LAC), Army chief General Manoj Pande said on Thursday, adding that a “close watch” is also being kept on the stepped-up activities of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) in the crucial Doklam plateau.The overall […]
