India, Aug. 14 -- The Government of India has issued a release:
"The Government, under the leadership of Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi, is according the highest priority to the modernisation of the defence forces driven by a self-reliant and future-ready defence sector," said Raksha Mantri Shri Rajnath Singh in his address to the soldiers through Akashvani on the eve of 80th Independence Day on August 14, 2026. Highlighting the transformative shift witnessed by the defence sector in the last 12 years due to the initiatives such as 'Aatmanirbhar Bharat' and 'Make-in-India', Raksha Mantri asserted that India has become a nation which is effectively catering to its own security needs, while emerging as a global defence manufacturing hub a...