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Airline Lunches I put my carry-on in the luggage compartment and sat down in my assigned seat. It was going to be a long flight from Gatwick. ‘I’m glad I have a good book to read Perhaps I will...

Uncertain months ahead for Chinese Leadership

By: B Raman |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 13 April 2012

Wang Lijun was the Deputy Director of the Public Security Bureau in Tiefa in the Liaoning province from 1992 to 1995. From 1995 to 2000, he held the same position in Tieling city, also inthe...

One India & One China

By: B Raman |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 12 April 2012

The strong economic relations between India and China and their co-operation in multilateral for a such as the recent Copenhagen summit on climate change should not blind one to the fact that the...

Pallam Raju Inaugurates BRO's longest bridge in Arunachal

By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 11 April 2012

The Border Roads Organisation (BRO) has built a 720-meters-long bridge in Arunachal Pradesh. The Digaru bridge, linking Lohit and Dibang valley, was inaugurated by Minister of State for Defence...

Nuke attack submarine Chakra inducted

By: IDR News Network | Date: 11 April 2012

INS Chakra, a nuclear powered attack submarine of the Akula class was formally inducted into the Indian Navy by Defence Minister AK Antony on 4 Apr 12, at Visakhapatnam, in the presence of MoS MM...

Design and Construction of Warships

By: Cmde KN Vaidyanathan |Issue: Vol 22.1 Jan - Mar 2007 | Date: 11 April 2012

The issues discussed in this article are globally relevant: they are more specific to the Indian Navy and warship design and building in India. The tides of change that are sweeping India and the...

Wanted Dead or Alive - Well, Not Quite

By: Vikram Sood |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 10 April 2012

Once again, Pakistan’s most treasured jehadi jewel, Hafiz Saeed the leader of the Jamat ut Dawa, listed by the US as a Foreign Terrorist Organisation, and the ideological patron of the rabidly...

Iran's NBC and Missile Programme

By: RSN Singh |Issue: Book Excerpt: Asian Strategy and Military Perspective | Date: 09 April 2012

Iran embarked on a comprehensive missile programme during the Iran-Iraq War. During the post war period, it has made a determined bid to enhance its missile arsenal and capabilities by reaching...

Preserving the Military Institution

By: Lt Gen Gautam Banerjee |Issue: Vol. 27.1 -Mar 2012 | Date: 06 April 2012

Military leaders at all levels have to girdle up to protect the exclusivity of the military establishment from attempts of misguided, even if unintentional, dilutions from within the fraternity...

Shia massacre in Gilgit-Baltistan

By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 06 April 2012

The phone lines are down and wireless connections are jammed since last three days. It is very difficult to get the right information about how many people have died in recent target killing...

Subterranean threats to India-Sri Lanka relations

By: Col R Hariharan |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 05 April 2012

According to a news item in the Colombo daily “The Island,” Sri Lanka intelligence services have received information that around 150 terrorists who returned to Sri Lanka from India were now...

Boeing Successfully Completes Parachute Drop Test of Crew Space...

By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 05 April 2012

Boeing successfully completed a parachute drop test of the company’s Crew Space Transportation (CST)-100 spacecraft today at the Delmar Dry Lake Bed near Alamo, Nev. CST-100 is part of the Boeing...

Difa-e-Pakistan: The New Kid on the Block

By: Vikram Sood |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 04 April 2012

They are there on web pages, on FaceBook and Twitter and, using the latest technology, wish to push their society back to the Dark Ages. This is the creed of the newly formed Difa-e-Pakistan...

Suu Kyi: What Next? Co-option or Independence?

By: B Raman |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 April 2012

Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy (NLD) has won a landslide victory in bye-elections to the Parliament.It is reported to have won at least 40 of the 45 seats for which the...

Why the Henderson-Brooks report has never been released! - II

By: Claude Arpi |Issue: Vol. 27.2 Apr-Jun 2012 | Date: 03 April 2012

The September 08 Incident: The situation was getting hotter by the day. In Beijing, Mao Zedong had begun his comeback to the political stage in Beijing. In the morning of September 08, 1962, the...

Why the Henderson-Brooks report has never been released! - I

By: Claude Arpi |Issue: Vol. 27.2 Apr-Jun 2012 | Date: 02 April 2012

Sir Henry McMahon never envisaged that the hurriedly conducted survey and his drawing of a thick red line on a map could trigger a war. The ‘massive attack’ supposedly planned by India cannot...

Thales: First successes with SDR Networking Lab

By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 30 March 2012

A first version based on FlexNet-One delivered to an international customer Thales, a key player in software-defined radio (SDR), has announced the first deliveries of its SDR Networking Lab...

Defence Minister inaugurates DefExpo-2012

By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 29 March 2012

Defence Minister Shri AK Antony declared open the Defexpo India-2012, the 7th Land, Naval and Internal Security Systems Exhibition, here this morning. Following is the full text of his Inaugural...

EADS receives award for innovative CPRF testing technology

By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 29 March 2012

EADS rewarded for laser based composite inspection technology Cost and time savings with ultrasonic technology Paris, March 28 – EADS won the JEC Innovation Award in the aeronautic category,...

From an Islamic Bomb to a Jihadi Bomb

By: B Raman |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 27 March 2012

The second Nuclear Security Summit currently being held in Seoul, South Korea, would make a fresh evaluation , inter alia, of the security of nuclear materials in the possession of many...