May 20, 2025 7:17 am
Top-10 Strongest Navy in the World 2025 List: In the Global Firepower Rankings 2025, India stands at the 5th position globally, with its fleet total tonnage of 593,603 tonnes, and secures the 6th position with 293 vessels based on fleet strength.
July 11, 2024 3:40 pm
The US military routinely conducts what it calls freedom of navigation operations in disputed waters in Asia that China claims as its own, deploying Navy ships to sail through waterways such as the South China Sea.
April 15, 2021 12:24 pm
Karambir Singh said China looks west for its energy, markets and resources and hence “it won’t be surprising that soon they would be coming into the Indian Ocean Region” because “flag follows trade”.
September 25, 2019 4:50 pm
With a strong capacity in amphibious operations and performing a variety of tasks, the ship is independently developed by China, the report said. The ship will next undergo equipment debugging, mooring and navigational trials as planned, it said.
April 04, 2019 8:32 pm
China's 32nd convoy fleet to the Gulf of Aden and Somali waters set sail from a military port in Zhoushan, East China's Zhejiang Province on Thursday, the People's Liberation Army (PLA) Navy official announced.
June 27, 2018 11:10 am
China is reaffirming its threats to take action to block "independence separatist plots" by self-governing Taiwan, following the recent passage of Chinese navy ships through the Taiwan Strait.
June 28, 2017 11:43 am
The vessel is the first of China's new generation of destroyers. The biggest naval destroyer was an addition to two aircraft carriers which China is in the process of deploying to compete with other naval powers liked the US and India, specially in the India Ocean.
June 09, 2016 12:04 pm
Relations between Japan and China deteriorated in 2012 when Tokyo "nationalised" some of the islands.
September 03, 2015 1:43 pm
The US Defense Department 'positively identified a number of Chinese naval vessels in that region, but based on their analysis they have not detected any sort of threat or threatening activities.'
October 28, 2013 3:08 pm
Submarines were shown as taking part in exercises along with naval ships and helicopters.