The Indian Navy has started a $1.5 billion overhaul of its ageing Soviet-era fleet of aircraft, seeking to boost its air power in an Indian Ocean region where a growing China is threatening its traditional dominance. The investment is one of the biggest the Indian Navy has made in recent years and reflects New Delhi's urgency to modernise its military, a move that rival Pakistan says could spark an arms build-up and destabilise an already roiled South Asia.
She became the first woman supreme commander of the forces to board it.
http://www.ibnlive.com/news/president-sails-in-ins-viraat-addresses-sailors/107644-3.html
The ship-based missile was flight-tested at around 1130 hrs IST.
http://www.ibnlive.com/news/nuclearcapable-ballistic-missile-dhanush-test-fired/107015-3.html
Pratibha Patil is likely to get on board India's lone aircraft carrier INS Viraat.
The warship was on an anti-piracy patrol off the Gulf of Aden.
http://www.ibnlive.com/news/indian-navy-foils-hijack-attempt-by-pirates/106650-3.html
Admiral Nirmal Verma says country is acquiring 30 warships.
http://www.ibnlive.com/news/china-is-not-a-threat-to-us-indian-navy-chief/106343-3.html
The area has been cordoned off by the police after the blast.
http://www.ibnlive.com/news/one-killed-in-suicide-bombing-at-pak-naval-hq/106328-2.html
They will become the first women combatants in the armed forces.
http://www.ibnlive.com/news/indian-navy-to-commission-its-first-women-navigators/105565-3.html
The audacious 26/11 attacks exposed Mumbai's lax security system.
http://www.ibnlive.com/news/a-year-after-2611-mumbai-needs-security-check/105476-3.html
Earlier the Obama administration had threatened to veto the bill.
http://www.ibnlive.com/news/obama-to-sign-us-defense-bill-this-week/104048-2.html
An Indian Envoy revealed in a letter how Navy, PSUs take bribe from US firms.
http://ibnlive.in.com/videos/103276/watch-details-of-bribery-scam-put-govt-to-shame.html
Indian Ambassador in Washington sent a letter on the issue in May 2009.
http://www.ibnlive.com/news/us-firms-bribed-navy-psus-indian-envoy/103237-3.html
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