Covid-19: Exemptions not enough to defend India’s defence...
April 30, 2020
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By: SAM Report
Like many other industries, the lockdown has hit the defence manufacturing sector hard despite essential works in the sector exempted from restriction...
Finding Nagaland: Tribes on India-Myanmar frontier dream o...
April 29, 2020
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By: SAM Report
The king of the Konyak tribe sleeps in Myanmar, but eats in India - his house, village and people divided by a mountain border which serves as a vulne...
India is now the world’s third largest military spender
April 28, 2020
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By: SAM Report
With an expenditure of $71.1 billion in 2019, India has emerged as the third largest military spender in the world, just behind the US and China.
In...
Pakistan is adapting its training for emerging air warfare...
April 28, 2020
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By: SAM Report
Though fiscal constraints made it more difficult for the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) to add new combat aircraft and support systems to its fleet, equipme...
Pakistan showcases military might in large-scale naval dri...
April 27, 2020
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By: SAM Report
The Pakistani Navy test fired on Saturday a variety of anti-ship missiles in the North Arabian Sea from surface vessels, and from fixed wing and rot...
Pakistan has placed strategic missiles near the Indian bor...
April 27, 2020
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By: SAM Report
Pakistan has moved its missile and strategic weapons closer to the Indian border as tensions between both nations have been escalating after unrelenti...
The CAA's provision for cancelling OCI registration is aim...
April 26, 2020
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By: SAM Report
Snuggled into the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019 is a seemingly insidious provision that states that Overseas Citizen of India (OCI) Registration c...
No dignity in death: How ignorance, irrational fears are o...
April 26, 2020
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By: SAM Report
Can the novel coronavirus spread from a patient’s dead body to people living around the cremation or burial site?
Both international and nation...
Exit from lockdown
April 26, 2020
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By: SAM Report
After the last four months of the raging pandemic around the world and here at home, one thing has become clear by now--covid-19 is here to stay for s...
SAMI in $5 billion MRO venture in Bangladesh
April 24, 2020
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By: SAM Report
Saudi Arabian Military Industries (SAMI) is planning to invest $5 billion in a bid to set up an MRO (maintenance, repair, and operating supply) facili...
A luckless Afghanistan faces a coronavirus disaster
April 19, 2020
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By: SAM Report
The spread of Covid-19 in Afghanistan has created a smokescreen that no one seems to be able to see through. The situation is complicated by the dwind...
Why Pakistan has not 1 but 3 Chinese-made tanks
April 17, 2020
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By: SAM Report
The Pakistan-China defense relationship has progressively deepened since Pakistan’s relationship with the United States began fraying in recent...
Mystery Submarine in service with Pakistan’s Navy SEALs
April 16, 2020
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By: SAM Report
Some of the best-kept secrets are hidden in plain sight. Sitting on the quayside at PNS Iqbal, a special naval base in Karachi, Pakistan, is a submari...
Elite Siberian T-55 Tanks: Modernized features to strength...
April 16, 2020
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By: SAM Report
Security is considered as a key element for the establishment of the state. Pakistan faced many security threats since it emerged as an independent st...
China to launch stealth fighter Shenyang FC-31, anxious In...
April 15, 2020
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By: SAM Report
The Shenyang FC-31, twin-engine, fifth-generation fighter jet appearing for time in PLA colours has sparked speculation that the aircraft could enter...
Indian Navy prepared for deployment amid China's increased...
April 15, 2020
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By: SAM Report
The Indian Navy on Tuesday asserted its war preparedness while stating that it has continued to maintain its operational vigil in the Indian Ocean Reg...
The noose tightens on Myanmar's media
April 15, 2020
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By: SAM Report
Around 9.30pm on March 23, police raided the home of a Mandalay-based editor and arrested him on terrorism charges for publishing an interview with a...
Slow internet is speeding the spread of the coronavirus in...
April 14, 2020
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By: SAM Report
When Indian-administered Kashmir confirmed its first coronavirus case on March 18, Iqbal Saleem, a professor of surgery at Government Medical College...
Covid-19 pandemic won’t affect S-400 deliveries: Indian en...
April 13, 2020
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By: SAM Report
All the major military contracts, including the deliveries of S-400 air defence missile systems, between Russia and India will be on schedule and the...
India’s first batch of Rafales to fly in late
April 13, 2020
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By: SAM Report
The arrival of the first batch of Rafale fighter jets for the Indian Air Force is likely to be delayed by around three months due to the COVID-19 pand...
Pakistan launches relief program for families suffering fr...
April 11, 2020
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By: SAM Report
Pakistan has begun delivering one-off cash payments of about $70 each to its 12 million poverty-stricken families, or roughly 80 million individuals,...
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Although the elections just held in four States and one Union Territory in India were provincial, they had immense national importance because national issues and national conditions impinged on them...
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