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TREND | 25 May 2026, 10:24PM

Missile and drone strikes kill 8 in Russia, Ukraine amid escalation

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The strikes follow one of the heaviest Russian bombardments of Kyiv since the start of the four-year war, after Moscow vowed on Saturday to retaliate

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TREND | 24 May 2026, 11:34PM

DRDO may soon bring pvt players on board to make Astra air-to-air weapon

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Move follows lessons drawn from West Asia crisis, Russia-Ukraine war, and Pakistan's decision to raise Army Rocket Force Command

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TREND | 23 May 2026

No power can stop India from becoming top arms exporter in 30 yrs: Rajnath

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Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Saturday said no power can stop India, once considered an importer of weapons, from being the biggest exporter in 25-30 years. After inaugurating an ammunition manufacturing unit at Shirdi, Singh said the target is to take the private sector role in defence production to 50 per cent. "The private sector is not just a supplier of nuts and bolts in defence, but also a producer of state-of-the-art weapons systems," he added. Singh said that when the government's vision and the private sector's innovation align, then the country reaches new heights. "All have to work together to make India the hub of munitions and automation," he added.

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TREND | 23 May 2026

India conducts successful test-launch of Agni-1 short range ballistic missile

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The missile was flight-tested with multiple payloads, targeted to different targets spatially distributed over a large geographical area in the Indian Ocean Region

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TREND | 22 May 2026

LTM offers to acquire Randstad's tech and consulting services biz in Europe and Australia for 160 mn

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The proposed acquisition would expand LTM's presence in key markets, primarily across Aerospace & Defence, Automotive, Utilities and BFS

LTM offers to acquire Randstad's 469 million tech and consulting services business

Business Line | 22 May 2026

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TREND | 22 May 2026

Progress in Iran talks undercut over Uranium, Hormuz tolls

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The conflicting statements on key issues left it unclear if the two sides were any closer to a deal after renewed threats of escalation in recent days

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TREND | 22 May 2026

US depleted roughly half of THAAD interceptors in defence of Israel: Report

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The US has depleted nearly half of its total inventory of advanced missile-defence interceptors in defending Israel in the now-paused war with Iran, The Washington Post reported. The United States launched more than 200 Terminal High Altitude Area Defense, or THAAD, interceptors in defence of Israel - roughly half of the Pentagon's total inventory - along with more than 100 Standard Missile-3 and Standard Missile-6 interceptors fired from naval vessels in the eastern Mediterranean, the Post quoted US officials as saying. By contrast, Israel fired fewer than 100 of its Arrow interceptors and around 90 David's Sling interceptors, some of which were used against less sophisticated projectiles fired by Iran-backed groups in Yemen and Lebanon, the Post report said on Thursday. The US and Israel started the war with Iran on February 28 with attacks targeted at its military, navy and air force facilities. The attacks have also wiped out top Iranian leadership, including the supreme leader,

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TREND | 20 May 2026

India eyes S Korea's military industry might to fuel defence aatmanirbharta

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Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Wednesday urged President Lee Jae-Myung's regime to jointly develop and produce advanced technologies with India

DRDO completes final trials of UAV-launched precision guided missile

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TREND | 20 May 2026

Trump discloses thousands of stock trades in cos influenced by his policies

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Call him the Trader in Chief. Recent presidents have stayed away from trading stocks in companies whose fortunes they could lift or scuttle with the stroke of a pen, but Donald Trump smashed that precedent in the first quarter of this year with more than 3,600 buy and sell orders, many of them involving companies whose profits have been directly impacted by his decisions as head of the government. Among the Trump trades in a recent report filed with a federal ethics agency was as much as USD 6 million in Nvidia, whose advanced chips Trump approved for sale to China last year. His portfolio also scooped up stocks of several US military suppliers impacted by the Iran war, including Lockheed Martin, General Dynamics and Northrop Grumman. "If he were defence secretary, he would be committing a crime," said Richard Painter, the chief White House ethics adviser in the George W Bush administration and a big critic of congressional trading, too. "Technically he can do this, but it is...

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TREND | 19 May 2026

NYT sues Pentagon for second time over Hegseth's media restrictions

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The New York Times sued the Defence Department on Monday for the second time in five months, arguing that a requirement that journalists be escorted while on Pentagon grounds violates the First Amendment. The escort policy is "an unconstitutional attempt by the Pentagon to prevent independent reporting on military affairs," a Times spokesman, Charlie Stadtlander, said in an email to The Associated Press. "As we have said before: Americans deserve visibility into how their government is being run, and the actions the military is taking in their name and with their tax dollars." On X, Defence Department spokesperson Sean Parnell called the Times' latest lawsuit "nothing more than an attempt to remove the barriers to them getting their hands on classified information." Continuing tension between the administration and the media ------------------------------------------------------------------- The Times lawsuit is another salvo in what has become an escalating tension between the U

Deeply concerned: India on drone strike near UAE's Barakah nuclear plant

Business Standard | 18 May 2026