Nirmala Sitharaman joined the BJP in 2008 and has served as a spokesperson for the party. In 2014, she was inducted into Narendra Modi's cabinet as a junior minister and in June 2014, she elected as a Rajya Sabha Member from Andhra Pradesh. In May 2016, she was one of the 12 candidates nominated by the BJP to contest the Rajya Sabha elections due on 11 June 2016. She successfully contested her seat from Karnataka. On 3 September 2017, she was elevated to Defence Minister. After Narendra Modi was re-elected in 2019 she became the first full time woman after Indira Gandhi to hold the Finance Minister post.
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Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman also visited Chabua air base, where she took stock of the operational preparedness and infrastructure development at the base.
Indian Army will help build a new foot overbridge at the Elphinstone Road station in Mumbai, where a deadly stampede killed 23 people last month.
Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman asked the officials to ensure timely conclusion of procurement proposals.
PM Modi said defence cooperation is one of the key pillars of the Strategic Partnership between India and France, and called for greater cooperation in defence manufacturing.
Defence operational cooperation, especially in the field of maritime security, joint exercises of the armed forces, were among the issues in focus.
According to a report in Times of India, France is very keen to hard-sell additional Rafale fighter jets to India.
India has been supporting freedom of navigation and access to resources in the South China Sea in accordance with principles of international law, including the 1982 UN Convention on the Law of the Sea.
BJP today asked Congress to break "silence" over media reports which claimed that Robert Vadra had "links" with fugitive arms dealer Sanjay Bhandari.
INS Kiltan was designed by the Indian Navy's in-house organisation Directorate of Naval Design and has been built by Garden Reach Shipbuilders & Engineers in Kolkata.
According to a Navy statement released here today, this is the third of the four Kamorta-class corvettes being built under Project 28.
Sitharaman will travel to the Andaman and Nicobar Islands on October 18 and celebrate the festival of light with the tri-service personnel there on October 19.
A Chinese daily today said that Beijing welcomes Nirmala Sitharaman's greeting and hopes this friendly gesture is also welcomed by Indians.
Reacting to Sitharaman's visit to the area, the Chinese foreign ministry today said "the Sikkim section of the China-India border has been demarcated by the historical boundary"
A video tweeted from the official Twitter handle of Defence Minister’s office shows Sitharaman interacting with a Chinese officer who introduces her to his colleagues
Sikkim government officials said the Defence Minister also made a survey of the new Pakyong Airport in East Sikkim and neighbouring areas this afternoon. Sitharaman is on a day-long visit to Arunachal Pradesh and Sikkim today.
Nearly 57,000 officers and other ranks are being redeployed to enhance the combat capability of the Indian Army under the reform process.
The government in August had unveiled an ambitious reform initiative for the Indian Army based on recommendations of a committee headed by Lt Gen (retd) DB Shekatkar.
Arrows were fired to set the effigies of Ravana ablaze at the Parade Ground in Delhi at an event attended by President Kovind, VP Naidu, PM Modi and his Manmohan Singh.
This is Nirmala Sitharaman's first visit to Jammu and Kashmir as Defence Minister.
Nirmala Sitharaman's visit coincided with one year of the Indian Army's surgical strike on terrorist hubs in Pakistani-administered Kashmir.
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