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The Indian Navys indigenously designed and built guided missile destroyer INS Chennai is in France to participate in the Bastille Day celebrations, officials said.

As the clock ticks for ISROs high-profile launch of the year, the Chandrayaan-3 lunar mission, all eyes are on the countrys space agency whose scientists are keen to taste success with a soft landing on lunar surface and put the country in an elite club of nations that have accomplished the challenging task.

The Indian Space Research Organisation said it has completed the Mission Readiness Review (MRR) for the Chandrayaan-3 mission to the Moon.

India and Malaysia have agreed to amend a key MoU signed in 1993 to enhance military-to-military and technology cooperation, as Defence Minister Rajnath Singh held productive talks with the countrys top leadership, including Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim, to realise the full potential of their strategic partnership.

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has announced that its lunar mission Chandrayaan-3 will be launched on July 14 from the space port at Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh. ISROs new heavy-lift launch vehicle LVM-3 will carry out the Moon mission.

The Indian Air Force is expected to get deliveries of Light Combat Aircraft Tejas MK-1A from February next year, and the new variant of the indigenously-built jet will be capable of firing a plethora of weapons, including beyond visual range missiles, the Ministry of Defence has said.

India and the Philippines have agreed to commence negotiations on a bilateral preferential trade pact and vowed to step up defence cooperation, especially in the maritime security domain, amid Chinas increasing muscle-flexing in the South China Sea.

India is yet to finalise the cost and specific terms of purchase of 31 MQ-9B long endurance drones from the US and it will examine the

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said that India has taken a

Gaganyaan project envisages demonstration of human spaceflight capability by launching a crew of three members to an orbit of 400 km for a three-day mission and bring them back safely to earth, by landing in Indian waters, according to ISRO.