J&K: Indian Army's civilian outreach to fight Corona Virus emulates national spirit
Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh are facing their own set of challenges while combating the COVID 19 (Corona/Chinese) Virus. While there was worry about Ladakh earlier, now Kashmir is emerging as a cause of concern. Ladakh, of course, is not completely out of the danger zone, one infection case has come up in district...
China-Pakistan: Doggy Tail Syndrome
There is an old adage that if a doggy’s tail is straight-jacketed in a bamboo pipe and taken out after 20 years, it will be as curved as before. This simile applies to both China and Pakistan. No matter how many overtures India made to Pakistan, extending a hand of friendship, it has stabbed India repeatedly in the...
India is indeed their Motherland
This 25th March a Gurdwara in Kabul was bathed in blood. Twenty five devotees were felled by their burst of bullets or blown up with explosives by Jihadis. Their undoing was their faith. It is not that Afghanistan’s history has not been embellished by Hindus and Sikhs, all through there has been a deep connect. There...
China-Pakistan: Doggy Tail Syndrome
There is an old adage that if a doggy’s tail is straight-jacketed in a bamboo pipe and taken out after 20 years, it will be as curved as before. This simile applies to both China and Pakistan. No matter how many overtures India made to Pakistan, extending a hand of friendship, it has stabbed India repeatedly in the...
India is indeed their Motherland
This 25th March a Gurdwara in Kabul was bathed in blood. Twenty five devotees were felled by their burst of bullets or blown up with explosives by Jihadis. Their undoing was their faith. It is not that Afghanistan’s history has not been embellished by Hindus and Sikhs, all through there has been a deep connect. There...
Limping from a Failing BRI to Health Silk Route
The beginning of 2020 brought a wild card entry into global strategic equations in the form of Novel Coronavirus (which causes the disease officially named by WHO as COVID-19), with Wuhan being the initial epicentre in December 2019. China will continue to be accused to have done unimaginable global damage by hiding...
J&K: Indian Army's civilian outreach to fight Corona Virus emulates national spirit
Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh are facing their own set of challenges while combating the COVID 19 (Corona/Chinese) Virus. While there was worry about Ladakh earlier, now Kashmir is emerging as a cause of concern. Ladakh, of course, is not completely out of the danger zone, one infection case has come up in district...
Drone Swarms as Air Defence Systems
In a major instance of failure of air defence systems, the Saudi Arabia failed to protect its Abqaiq and Khurais oil facilities when Houthi rebels launched 18 drones and seven cruise missiles against the two facilities on 14 September 2019. While the drones struck Abqaiq, the cruise missiles fell short and did not hit...
Innovator and Startup Woes which Government Must Address
On March 15, 2020, a firm in Turkey unveiled its ES-60 Electromagnetic Anti Drone Gun, designed to inflict high-speed electromagnetic interference to disrupt communications between drones and their control units and cause enemy devices to malfunction. Weighing just 2.5 kg, its effective range to combat rogue drones is...
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The Sirens Must Wail Again
The sound of sirens last heard in 1971 have been conspicuous by their silence. Thank God! But then again, was it not the sound of sirens which sent everyone scrambling, running to shelters, switching lights off for black outs and alerts! A practice tried and tested in the Country but not heard for long. Emergencies &...
Maoists Raise Stakes
Starting with the then Union Home Minister in 2010 stating that the Maoists insurgency will be over in next 3-4 years, which his successors too echoed, it appears that we continue to deliberately ignore ground realities instead of recognizing the signals and evolving effective responses conforming to the changing...
Kashmir Summer 2020
The nation waits with bated breath the summer of 2020 in Kashmir. This summer is going to be different from the past summers in many ways. It would be the first summer after the epoch making decision of the Modi government on 05 August, 2019 to abrogate Articles 370 and 35A and subsequent reorganisation of the state. It...
India-US Space Cooperation Envisaged on Trump visit
The United States and India, both major space powers, have long worked together on civil space efforts but have not done much with regards to security-space-cooperation. According to Victoria Samson, Washington Office Director, Secure World Foundation, “This is a real missed opportunity, as each country has a lot to...
Marginal Increase in Defence Budget Could Mar Modernisation
The disappointing part is that there has been a very marginal increase in the capital outlay for defence for 2020-21 as compared to the budget estimates and revised estimates of 2019-20, which will affect several big-ticket projects of the defence forces that are being done for building capabilities against our two...
Drones: A Game Changer in Future Conflict
Drones have been called “the ultimate military growth industry”. Air, naval and land forces everywhere are striving to acquire these platforms. Herein lies the danger; thanks to advanced armed drones, aggression is becoming pain-free. Practically every military that has inducted UCAVs has sought to purchase even...
Interviews / Spotlight
On Kabul Gurudwara Carnage and Media Insensitivity
Wednesday’s carnage at Gurudwara Har Rai Sahib in Kabul that left 25 Sikh worshippers dead was a despicable act...
Beijing’s Bio Bomb
If China’s conscience was clear, it would not have blocked discussion on COVID-19 in the United Nations. Even its...
Indian Army's quiet, efficient, disciplined response to Corona Virus sets an example for the nation
COVID-19, more popularly known as Corona Virus has posed the biggest challenge in centuries upon the human population of the earth. Its rapid spread from China to the rest of the world is leading to a breakdown of health infrastructures of entire Nations while others like India are grappling with the challenge of containing its spread. The Indian Army has always stood as a sentinel of the...
Understanding the Political Perspectives of the Jammu and Kashmir War (1947-48)
“On 12th and 13th December 1948, the Indian Air Force bombed a Pakistani military stores and ammunition dump at Palak, situated between Kotli and Mirpur. These activities appeared to have added a new dimension of reality to the already existing Pakistani fears of a major Indian offensive…… A counter-offensive to disrupt the Indian line if communication had now become an active option. Operation Venus was conceived and designed to...
The Prime Minister Narendra Modi visiting the Pavilions of the 11th edition of DefExpo2020, at Lucknow, in...
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The Prime Minister Narendra Modi meeting the invitees, at the ‘At Home Reception’, on the occasion of...
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The Union Minister for Defence Rajnath Singh flagging off 51st K9 VAJRA-T Gun from L&T Armoured System...
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The Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), General Bipin Rawat along with the Chief of the Army Staff, General...
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The Union Minister for Defence Rajnath Singh at the Piskarevsky Memorial Cemetery in St Petersburg, Russia...
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