India must build defences so none dares cast \\\'evil eye\\\': Modi

MUMBAI, Aug 16 (agencies): Prime Minister Narendra Modi Saturday said India must build up its military might to the point that no other country "dare cast an evil eye" on the South Asian nation.
Modi made the statement at a ceremony in Mumbai for the commissioning of the country's biggest locally built warship.
"Our aim is to achieve such prowess in our defence capabilities that no country dare cast an evil eye on India," Modi told naval officers and other dignitaries.
India, the second most populous nation in the world, is in the midst of a $100-billion defence upgrade programme.
Modi's new government has raised the foreign investment cap on India's defence industries to speed up modernisation of the military.
India has fought three wars with nuclear-armed rival Pakistan, two of them over the disputed Himalayan territory of Kashmir.
The country has also been seeking to shore up its defence capabilities to counter a military build-up by an increasingly assertive China.
Meanwhile: Suspected rebels shot dead two paramilitary troopers in Indian Kashmir in the third militant assault on government forces in a week in the restive Himalayan region, police said.
Gunmen attacked a vehicle carrying Border Security Force (BSF) troops near a military airport just south of Srinagar, the main city in Muslim-majority Indian Kashmir.
"Two BSF personnel got martyred (killed) and two were injured in the attack," police inspector general Abdul Gani Mir told AFP, adding the gunmen fled immediately afterwards.