NEW DELHI—Russia and India have completed the preliminary design stage of their joint-venture multipurpose transport aircraft, a prototype of which is expected to be rolled out in 2017.

NEW DELHI—India is working to develop higher-capability communication satellites to meet the country’s growing requirements, a senior space scientist says. The country’s space agency is in the process of “developing various technologies and finding a suitable foreign industrial alliance to acquire the latest satellite platforms and payload technologies to upgrade its current satellite platforms,” Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) Chairman K. Radhakrishnan says.

NEW DELHI – The U.S. has become India’s largest defense supplier in the past three fiscal years in terms of money spent, eclipsing traditional #1 arms supplier Russia, according to statistics revealed by Defense Minister Arun Jaitley on Aug. 12 in parliament. The U.S. has secured 40% of the money spent by India on defense imports in the past three years, followed by Russia with 30% and France with 14%. Israel, which used to be among the top two, has slipped to fourth place with 4%.