Antony lauds military agreement with US

October 15th, 2009 NEW DELHI - India and Russia would be signing two deals to further strengthen bilateral defence cooperation during Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's visit to Moscow later this year, the defence ministry said Thursday. The first agreement would be on extending the military technical cooperation for ten years from 2011 to 2020 and the second relates to after-sales product support for defence equipment of Russian origin.

October 10th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Government on Saturday ruled out the possibility of deployment of armed forces in anti-Naxal combat operation. Speaking on the sidelines of an international flight safety conference, Defence Minister A.K.

September 3rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - Defence Minister A.K. Antony Thursday condoled the sudden and untimely demise of Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y.S.

August 4th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Defence Minister A. K. Antony on Tuesday said that terrorists were becoming aggressive by adopting new technologies in their operations.

July 22nd, 2009 NEW DELHI - A day after an uproar in parliament over a pact that will enable the annual inspection of military hardware purchased from the US, Defence Minister A.K. Antony Wednesday defended the measure, saying it was the result of three years of tough efforts and that the government did not have any reservations about it.

July 22nd, 2009 NEW DELHI - Defence Minister AK Antony today informed the Rajya Sabha that the United States and United Kingdom have requested for "observer" status in the Indian Ocean Naval Symposium (IONS), an intiative of the Indian Navy to secure and stabilise the Indian Ocean Region (IOR). "Navies of UK and USA have forwarded requests seeking observer status in IONS," Antony said.

July 13th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Thirty-four service personnel have been killed in 56 military aircraft crashes in the past four years, parliament was informed Monday. Of these, five aircraft crashes and one helicopter crash had been recorded till July 2 in the current financial year that began April 1, Defence Minister A.K.

July 13th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The government has accepted the one-rank-one-pension (OROP) demand for armed forces officers and personnel below officer rank (PBOR) and will also set up a separate pay panel for the military, parliament was informed Monday. However, from Defence Minister A.K.

June 19th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Defence Minister A.K. Antony on Friday said that Taliban is a threat to the world peace and India has been trying to impress upon Pakistan to take more proactive actions to ban the Taliban.

April 27th, 2009 SRINAGAR - Defence Minister A. K. Antony on Monday visited the forward areas of Jammu and Kashmir under the White Knight Corps, and said that the Army's vigilance and proactive stance had ensured incident free elections in the state.

April 16th, 2009 THIRUVANANTHAPURAM - Defence Minister A.K. Antony said here Thursday that the Congress-led United Democratic Front in Kerala will make a clean sweep in the Lok Sabha elections.

March 24th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Congress leader and Union Defence Minister A. K. Antony on Monday announced that his party and the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) would contest the general elections together in Maharashtra.

February 10th, 2009 BANGALORE - Defence Minister A.K. Antony Wednesday hoped that the defence budget for fiscal 2009-10 beginning April 1 would rise despite the recession the Indian economy was going through.

February 9th, 2009 BANGALORE - India is close to inking a pact governing the end-use of US military hardware it purchases with New Delhi set to soon propose a new draft, a US official said here Tuesday. More importantly, the pact will govern all future purchases instead of dealing with them on a case-to-case basis as is currently the norm, the official added.

January 19th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Defence Minister A.K. Antony Tuesday denied that US interests in Afghanistan were restraining India from taking military action against Pakistan over the Mumbai terror attack.