NEW DELHI — India is likely to buy two additional Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) aircraft to strengthen its air defense, according to Defense Minister A.K. Antony.

Vijay Mallya, chairman and founder of grounded Kingfisher Airlines, is ready to inject about 4.25 billion rupees ($775,000 million) into the carrier to restart operations if and when India's aviation regulator gives the go-ahead, one of the members of the airline’s lenders committee says.

NEW DELHI — The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) plans to undertake 10 space missions in 2013, including its first Mars orbiter. “Of these, eight missions will be launched by September 2013 and the remaining by year-end,” says V. Narayanasamy, a junior minister in the prime minister’s office, which is in charge of space administration.