India’s Case For A $100 Billion Defence Budget: Modernization & Global Edge
A significant portion of the current budget is allocated to salaries and pensions, with only Rs 1.8 lakh crore designated for modernization and procurement.
Oct 04, 2025, 15:32 PM IST
‘War Isn’t Glory – It’s Grief’: Why India Chose Pause Over Provocation
“War is not romantic or a Bollywood movie. It is serious business,” said Gen. Naravane, urging India to count the cost before craving conflict.
May 17, 2025, 23:36 PM IST
After Operation Sindoor, India Set To Boost Military Edge With Rs 50,000 Cr Budget Surge
The proposal is likely to be tabled for parliamentary approval during the Winter Session. Since the beginning of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s tenure in 2014, Defence spending has seen a steep upward trajectory.
May 16, 2025, 14:54 PM IST
FM Nirmala Sitharaman to present Union Budget 2024 today
The monsoon session of Parliament started yesterday i.e. on Monday. Modi 3.0 budget will be presented today. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will present Budget 2024 for the seventh time.
Jul 23, 2024, 07:38 AM IST
Defence Gets Rs 6.21 Lakh Crore In Interim Budget 2024-25
The budgetary allocation to the Defence for FY24-25 is higher by approximately one lakh crore (18.35 percent) than the allocation for FY 2022-23 and 4.72 percent more than the allocation for FY23-24.
Feb 01, 2024, 18:32 PM IST
Budget: Defence Budget Increased by 13 %, Modernisation Budget Sees Moderate Hike
The revenue budget for the forces is also up by around Rs 30,000 crore as it has been pegged at Rs 2.70 lakh crore from Rs 2.39 lakh crore last year.
Feb 01, 2023, 15:25 PM IST
BUDGET 2023: Captain UK Devnath Comments on Defense Budget
Budget session in India began on Tuesday. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will present the budget at 11 am today. Defense budget will also be given for the defense of the country. Commenting on this, Captain UK Devnath said, 'The defense budget should be such that we can prepare against the enemy.'
Feb 01, 2023, 10:28 AM IST
Defence Ministry to set up panel to monitor budget spending so it is fully utilised: Rajnath Singh
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said, "For promoting industry-led research and development (R&D) efforts, I would sanction at least five projects under Make-I during the financial year 2022-23."
Feb 25, 2022, 15:47 PM IST
Super Power America increases its 2022 defense budget by $63 billion
Super Power America has increased its defence budget for 2022. US President Joe Biden signed a $768 billion defence bill which is $63 billion more than the previous one.
Dec 29, 2021, 10:56 AM IST
Centre allocated Rs 90,048 crores for defence modernisation in 2020-21
An amount of Rs 90,048 crores has been allocated for capital acquisition (modernisation) of the armed forces under Defence Service Estimates in 2020-21. This is an increase of over Rs 9,000 crores from last year`s allocations.
Sep 15, 2020, 08:52 AM IST
Defence Budget 2020: Balanced modernisation of three services will be my priority, says General Bipin Rawat
The Central government has allotted a total Rs 30,42,230 crore for defence which is a hike by 6 percent from the previous year's budget amounting to Rs 3.19 lakh crore. The total defence budget accounts for 15.49 per cent of the total central government expenditure for the year 2020-21.
Feb 02, 2020, 17:22 PM IST
Budget 2020: Defence budget increased by 6% to Rs 3.37 lakh crore from Rs 3.19 lakh crore
Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday (February 1) delivered her Budget 2020 and announced that the Centre has decided to increase the defence budget by six per cent to Rs 3.37 lakh crore.
Feb 01, 2020, 16:00 PM IST
India needs tweaks to cover all challenges to its national security
India's budget for security - defence and internal security - need a serious rethink to expand their scopes.
May 09, 2019, 17:37 PM IST
Made clear demand to Finance Ministry that unutilised defence budget is not sent back: Nirmala Sitharaman
She was addressing a gathering after releasing reports on indigenous research and development and cyber security, prepared by think tank Vivekananda International Foundation (VIF) here.
Apr 12, 2019, 23:14 PM IST
China hikes defence budget by 7.5 percent to $177.61 billion, three times more than India
With this year's increase, China's defence spending moved closer to the $200 billion mark, making it the highest spender on defence after the United States.
Mar 05, 2019, 09:13 AM IST
Interim Budget 2019: Defence budget goes past Rs 3 lakh crore for the first time
Goyal announced that more money will be sanctioned for the defence forces over and above announced in the Interim Budget 2019 if there is a need for it.
Feb 01, 2019, 12:10 PM IST
Morning Breaking: Watch detailed news stories of today, January 8th, 2019
This segment of Zee News brings detailed top news stories of the day. Watch this video to know more.
Jan 08, 2019, 09:24 AM IST
Morning Breaking: Parliamentary Panel slams Modi government for inadequate funds in Defence Budget
This segment of Zee News brings to you latest from defence Budget over which the Parliamentary Panel has slammed Modi government for inadequate funds to Defence. Watch full video to know more.
Jan 08, 2019, 08:58 AM IST
Centre spends over Rs 72.7 crore for indigenous defence products in 2017-18
This information was given by Minister of state Defence Subhash Bhamre in a written reply to Lok Sabha.
Aug 02, 2018, 06:54 AM IST
China raises 2018 defence budget by 8.1 percent
The 8.1% increase is higher than last year's announcement, when China upped military spending by 7% over the previous year.
Mar 05, 2018, 12:12 PM IST