Why Khalistani Separatists Cannot Be Separated from Totality of Friendly India-UK Ties

Why Khalistani Separatists Cannot Be Separated from Totality of Friendly India-UK Ties

The latest incident of pro-Khalistan activists demonstrating in front of our mission in London, climbing to the balcony on the frontage of the building and removing the national flag, and breaking some windows as well, has happened because the UK authorities have not taken seriously our long-standing protests about...

Chipping the Chip Industry

Chipping the Chip Industry

US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo’s four-day trip to India beginning March 7, 2023 was to participate in the US-India Commercial Dialogue and the US-India CEO Forum. She called on Prime Minister Narendra Modi and held bilateral meetings with several leaders including External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar, Finance...

Are Servicemen, soft targets for all and sundry?

Are Servicemen, soft targets for all and sundry?

There must be something radically wrong with a society that prides itself on being one of the most robust and resilient democracies of the world, but virtually tramples on the rights of Indian soldiery with such insensitivity and disdain. Reports of the constant attacks on serving or retired Army men, their...

Why Khalistani Separatists Cannot Be Separated from Totality of Friendly India-UK Ties

Why Khalistani Separatists Cannot Be Separated from Totality of Friendly India-UK Ties

The latest incident of pro-Khalistan activists demonstrating in front of our mission in London, climbing to the balcony on the frontage of the building and removing the national flag, and breaking some windows as well, has happened because the UK authorities have not taken seriously our long-standing protests about...

Chipping the Chip Industry

Chipping the Chip Industry

US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo’s four-day trip to India beginning March 7, 2023 was to participate in the US-India Commercial Dialogue and the US-India CEO Forum. She called on Prime Minister Narendra Modi and held bilateral meetings with several leaders including External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar, Finance...

Will F-16s follow President Biden to Ukraine?

Will F-16s follow President Biden to Ukraine?

While US President Joe Biden’s historic surprise visit to Ukraine on the eve of the first anniversary of the Russian invasion of that country and his fresh offer of $460 million of military to boost the country’s defense have raised spirit of the Ukrainians enormously,  Kyiv’s request to get F-16 fighter aircraft...

Are Servicemen, soft targets for all and sundry?

Are Servicemen, soft targets for all and sundry?

There must be something radically wrong with a society that prides itself on being one of the most robust and resilient democracies of the world, but virtually tramples on the rights of Indian soldiery with such insensitivity and disdain. Reports of the constant attacks on serving or retired Army men, their...

The Big Takeaways from India’s Post-Independence Wars

The Big Takeaways from India’s Post-Independence Wars

A wise soldier learns from the past, both the successes and failures. Background Wars shape the destinies of nations and are characterised by tales of courage, resilience, and bravery. Military history or the study of past wars is thus, a fascinating subject. It has the added advantage of highlighting lessons for...

IAF will get 70 HTT-40 Basic Trainer Aircraft from HAL

IAF will get 70 HTT-40 Basic Trainer Aircraft from HAL

The Union Cabinet has approved procurement of 70 HTT-40 Basic Trainer Aircraft from Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) for the Indian Air Force at a cost of Rs 6,828.36 crore. The aircraft will be supplied over a period of six years. The HTT-40 is a turbo prop aircraft and is designed to have good low speed handling...

Indian Vision-2047 for Cyber Defence Security: Needs and Importance

Indian Vision-2047 for Cyber Defence Security: Needs and Importance

  In order to make the military into the “Aatmanirbhar” force that Prime Minister  Narendra Modi had envisioned, the Ministry of Defence undertook ground-breaking reforms in 2022, led by Raksha Mantri Rajnath Singh. The Ministry of Defence’s inaugural “AI in Defence” symposium and exhibition in New Delhi saw the...

Decoding Targeted Killings in Kashmir

Decoding Targeted Killings in Kashmir

The cold-blooded murder of 45-year-old Sanjay Sharma in Achan village of South Kashmir’s Pulwama district on Sunday serves as a grim warning that there’s no let-up in the despicable trend of terrorists targeting minority community members in Kashmir Valley. What’s really disturbing is that despite being a Kashmiri,...

The Kashmir ‘Solidarity Day’ Charade

The Kashmir ‘Solidarity Day’ Charade

While flaunting it as a solemn occasion called ‘Kashmir Solidarity Day’, Islamabad organises a comical extravaganza of sorts with emotional [as well as menacing] speeches and contrived protests [which includes the indispensable burning of the Indian national flag] on February 5 every year. However, despite all...

Future of Attack Helicopters: The Million Dollar Question?

Future of Attack Helicopters: The Million Dollar Question?

Background Third of October 2022, was a memorable day for Indian Aviation as the defence minister presided over the formal handing over of the Light Combat Helicopter (LCH) to the Indian Air Force.[1] Designed, developed and manufactured by HAL, the induction of LCH aka Prachanda, was a momentous occasion signalling a...

Lethal Autonomous Weapon Systems: Existential Threat to Humanity?

Lethal Autonomous Weapon Systems: Existential Threat to Humanity?

Early in January 1942, Project X-Ray of the United States of America (USA) envisaged using the Mexican Bat, endemic to South Western USA, as a retaliatory weapon against the Japanese for the attack on Pearl Harbour. The plan envisaged attaching incendiary bombs to the bats and releasing them from cluster containers,...

Defense Allocation, Reforms, Reality & The Way Forward

Defense Allocation, Reforms, Reality & The Way Forward

The Indian economy has been an outlier in terms of growth, clocking a 7.1% increase in GDP during 2022-23, and is expected to achieve 6.5% growth in 2023-24. Agriculture has proved to be a robust sector, registering an average growth rate of 3.5%, and most importantly provided much-needed food security when nearly 50...

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Pakistan Army’s Undeclared War in Balochistan

Pakistan Army’s Undeclared War in Balochistan

Being mandated to ensure territorial integrity of their country, the armed forces of every nation are both...

India-Egyptian relations are now Strategic: Indian Envoy

India-Egyptian relations are now Strategic: Indian Envoy

Ambassador Ajit Gupte a senior diplomat from Indian Foreign Service (IFS) is currently serving as the Indian...

Westphalia in the Modern Context

Westphalia in the Modern Context

Significance of the Treaty of Westphalia For many years Germany became the principal theatre of European diplomacy and war, and consequently,the development of German national unity was delayed. But the Treaty of Westphalia pronounced the dissolution of the old order in the empire andit facilitated the growth of new powers in its component parts, especially Austria, Bavaria, and Brandenburg....

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Khalistan Movement: Rising from the Ashes?

In the backdrop of Punjab’s political instability, owing to inner-fighting in the then ruling Congress party, that catapulted a comparatively new and inexperienced government of ‘Aam Aadmi Party’, Pakistan’s State and non-State actors, in collaboration with West-based extremist elements, have been desperately making attempts, to revive militancy in Punjab. It was manifested on February 23, when, hundreds of followers of a radical...

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Commissioning Ceremony of INS Mormugao

The Union Minister for Defence Rajnath Singh inaugurates of commissioning ceremony of INS Mormugao,...

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Vijay Diwas

The Union Minister for Defence Rajnath Singh paying homage to the fallen heroes at National War Memorial...

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‘Artificial Intelligence in Defence’ exhibition

The Union Minister for Defence Rajnath Singh visits the ‘Artificial Intelligence in Defence’...

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High-speed Expendable Aerial Target (HEAT) ABHYAS

Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) successfully conducted the flight test of...

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INS Khanderi

The Union Minister for Defence Rajnath Singh at the ‘INS Khanderi’ during his visit to Karwar Naval...

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