Strategic Partnership model in defence gets Cabinet approval
In a major step for defence indigenisation, the Union Cabinet on Wednesday gave its go ahead to the 'strategic partnership' model under which select private firms will be engaged to build military platforms like fighter jets, submarines and battle tanks.
The wreckage of the IAF Sukhoi fighter jet that went missing with two crew members on board was found on Friday after three days of search operations.
The space research organisation will launch five communication satellites by the year-end, its chairman A S Kiran Kumar has said.
Since Aryabhata - India's first satellite launched by a Russian (erstwhile Soviet Union) rocket in 1975, the Indian Space Research Organisation has come a long way by not only designing and launching its own satellites, but also by orbiting those of many other countries.
