Boosting their military ties, India on Monday inked deals worth around Rs 22,000 crore (four billion US dollars) with Russia to procure 42 new Su-30 MKI combat aircraft and 71 Mi-17V5 medium-lift helicopters.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has arrived in India on a trip aimed at strengthening military and trade ties.

Boeing [NYSE: BA] on Dec. 19 made an on-site delivery of the first P-8I aircraft to the Indian Navy in Seattle, in accordance with the contract.

Army's Strategic Forces Command (SFC) successfully test-fired the Prithvi-II missile from the DRDO range facility at Chandipur off the Odisha coast on Thursday.

India is planning to procure two more Airborne Warning and Control Systems (AWACS) for the Indian Air Force, Lok Sabha was informed on Monday.

India has upgraded its BrahMos supersonic cruise missiles by installing the advanced satellite navigation systems from Russia's Kh-555 and Kh-101 strategic long-range cruise missiles.

India is constantly upgrading its submarine fleet with modern weapons and sensors, Defence Minister A.K. Antony said Monday.

Six soldiers were killed and one was missing after their post was buried under an avalanche in Siachen Glacier area of Ladakh region Sunday, army officials said here.

Vijay Diwas was celebrated Sunday in Tripura to commemorate brave soldiers of the Indian Army who laid down their lives in the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971.

Last week, the current naval chief, Admiral DK Joshi, declared that the navy wanted the Tejas more urgently than any fighter aircraft from abroad.

China was 'forced into a counterattack' in the 1962 war with India, said a state-run Chinese daily, blaming New Delhi for initiating 'a forward policy of sending troops and border patrols into disputed areas'.

The ability of the Indian Armed forces, especially of the Indian Army, to take on China and Pakistan in the icy Himalayan heights will get a new boost soon in 2013.