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Role of the Armed Forces in Preserving the Nation
By: Col Anil Athale |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 15 August 2022
As India completes 75 years of independence, it also creates a new landmark in 5000-year-old history of India. If we count the period under British imperial rule (1857 to 1947), then India (most...
China in Turmoil
By: Gp Capt TP Srivastava |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 14 August 2022
World is witnessing the fifth Taiwan Straits crisis. First being in 1955 when China forcibly occupied Yijiangshan island. Second in 1958 when China used artillery firing on Matsu island. In 1995...
Ukrainian army endangers civilians
By: Slavisha Batko Milacic |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 12 August 2022
Ukrainian forces have threatened civilians by setting up bases and operating weapons systems in populated areas, including schools and hospitals, as they battled the Russian intervention that...
An Ode to the Defence Forces and Families
By: Aman Talwar |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 12 August 2022
The glory of the defence forces is second to none. The pride and valour associated with wearing the uniform is an emotion that could never be expressed in words. We are in awe of the defence...
Yasin Malik: Kashmir’s Most ‘Artful Dodger’
By: Nilesh Kunwar |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 11 August 2022
From an ordinary public event disruptor to waging Pakistan sponsored armed insurrection in J&K [in the course of which he was actively involved in killing security forces personnel and innocent...
Teledyne FLIR Announces the Neutrino LC CZ 15-300 Demonstrating Rapid MWIR...
By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 10 August 2022
Teledyne FLIR, part of Teledyne Technologies Incorporated, announced the release of the Neutrino LC CZ 15-300, the latest Neutrino IS series model of mid-wavelength infrared (MWIR) camera modules...
Revision of OROP and related aspects
By: Air Marshal SY Savur, PVSM, AVSM (Retd) |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 10 August 2022
The honourable Supreme Court has awarded the petitioners a revision of One Rank One Pension (OROP) with effect from July 2019. This is in consonance with the Cabinet decision of 2015 submitted to...
Mounting Demoralisation could become a major problem for Putin
By: Col (Dr) PK Vasudeva |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 10 August 2022
Moscow indicates that Russian public support for the country’s invasion of Ukraine is growing. However, with the war now in its sixth month, there is little sign of similar enthusiasm within...
Restructuring the Indian Military in the 21st century
By: Purushendra Singh |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 09 August 2022
Defence modernisation has a major chunk of share in the rhetoric “Atmanirbharta”. With offence becoming the best form of defence and traditional soft power diplomacy giving way to the hard...
Dark Clouds went away with 370
By: RSN Singh |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 09 August 2022
Three weeks back this author was invited to Akhnoor to deliver a talk on “National Security Challenges”. This kind of an invitation in a small town of J&K was unthinkable before the arrival...
12th DefExpo to be held in Gandhinagar between October 18-22, 2022
By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 09 August 2022
The 12th edition of DefExpo – India’s flagship exhibition on Land, Naval and Homeland Security systems – will be held in Gandhinagar, Gujarat between October 18-22, 2022. The five-day event...
Economic Crisis in Nations on Indian Periphery: A Sub Nationality Syndrome...
By: Lt Gen Rameshwar Yadav |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 09 August 2022
It is not a coincidence that all the nations on the Indian periphery have been showing signs of economic down fall and political instability in recent times. Two years of Wuhan virus is surely...
Killing of Ayman al-Zawahiri
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 08 August 2022
The killing of Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri in Sherpur, Kabul’s neighbourhood, by a US drone strike on July 31 using a Hellfire R9X missile made headline news. The Hellfire R9X has no...
Perpetual turmoil till November
By: Harsh Behere |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 06 August 2022
In the ancient Chinese game of Weiqi, better known in the West as Go, the objective is not to knock out your opponent but to weaken and stifle the enemy with more space. Players seek to build...
DRDO successfully test fires indigenously developed laser-guided ATGMs
By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 05 August 2022
Indigenously developed Laser-Guided Anti-Tank Guided Missiles (ATGM) were successfully test-fired from Main Battle Tank (MBT) Arjun by Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) and...
Advanced Maritime Technology Partnership with Thales Group
By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 05 August 2022
British maritime technology company Kraken Technology Group (KTG) today announced that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Thales for the ongoing development and provision of...
Article 370 Abrogation: An Appraisal
By: Nilesh Kunwar |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 05 August 2022
August 5 marks the third anniversary of the center’s decision to abrogate Articles 370 and 35[A] of the Indian Constitution, and though it’s still too early to comprehensively comment on the...
Air Works delivers Sixth P-8I to the Indian Navy after successful completion...
By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 04 August 2022
India’s largest independent MRO and aviation services and solutions major – Air Works – has handed over the last of the six P-8I maritime patrol aircraft after completing Phase 32 maintenance...
MBDA and India, longstanding partners
By: Ludovic Dumont |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 04 August 2022
MBDA is proud to celebrate the 75th anniversary of India’s Independence Day. India and MBDA share a long history of partnership in equipping the Indian Armed Forces going back to the early days...
Fifth Joe Biden-Xi Jinping Video Chat
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 August 2022
The fifth video chat between the POTUS Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping lasting two hours and 20 minutes was held on July 28 – as always at the behest of Joe Biden. In a press...