Union Budget 2025-26 allocates ₹6.81 lakh crore for Defence, raising concerns over adequacy for modernisation and ...

Cash from the stretched military budget was splurged on sponsoring a “Formula Woke” racing team, an audit of defence spending ...

Union Budget FY25-26 allocates ₹1.8 lakh crore for defence services, focusing on modernization and self-reliance in defence ...

India's Ministry of Defence (MoD) announced on 1 February a 2025–26 defence budget of INR6.81 trillion (USD78.4 billion).

Although Delhi says modernization is a priority, funding for capital acquisitions has grown just 4.65% compared to last year.

The additional cost - equivalent to 6% of the entire MoD budget for major equipment projects in 2002-03 - was described as "disappointing" by Sir John Bourn, head of the spending watchdog National ...

Ministry of Defence (MoD) gets ₹6,81,210 crore (a 9.5% increase from the previous year), which is 13.44% of the total budget ...

The MoD has designated 2025 as the 'Year of Reforms', announcing in December that the Defence Acquisition Procedure 2020 is ...