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L'Affaire Salman Rushdie
By: B Raman |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 21 January 2012
The situation became sensitive and complex. One would have expected the Government of India to stop this intimidatory campaign initiated by the Deobandis in the bud and make it clear to them that...
1st Inshore Patrol Vessel Commissioned into Coast Guard
By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 21 January 2012
The Indian Coast Guard Ship Rani Abbakka, the 1st of a series of five Inshore Patrol Vessel (IPV) built at M/s HSL, was commissioned at Visakhapatnam byMinister of State for Defence Dr. MM...
Shaping of the Indian Military
By: Air Chief Marshal S Krishnaswamy |Issue: Vol 22.2 Apr-Jun 2007 | Date: 21 January 2012
On 3 Apr, 1989 Ross Munro published an article on India – as the Superpower Rising, primarily focusing on its military might. It talked about India quietly transforming itself into regional...
Lockheed Martin F-35A Performs First Night Flight
By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 20 January 2012
The first night flight in the history of the Lockheed Martin F-35 Program was completed Wednesday at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. Piloted by Lockheed Martin Test Pilot Mark Ward, AF-6, an...
Boeing to Build More Wideband Global SATCOM Satellites for US Air Force
By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 19 January 2012
Boeing has received authorization from the U.S. Air Force to produce and launch the eighth and ninth Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS) satellites. The WGS-9 authorization and the WGS-8 production...
Sagem to modernize M270 Multiple Launch Rocket Systems
By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 19 January 2012
Sagem (Safran group) has won a contract from Cassidian (an EADS company) to supply Sigma 30 navigation and pointing systems to modernize the self-propelled M270 Mars MLRS (Multiple Launch Rocket...
Future of Kashmiri Pandits?
By: B Raman |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 19 January 2012
It is 23 years today since Jammu & Kashmir saw the beginning of the ethnic-cleansing of the Kashmiri Pandits, the original inhabitants of Jammu & Kashmir (J&K), from their homeland at the...
Can Pakistan's Army be Restrained?
By: Bhaskar Roy |Issue: Courtesy: Uday India | Date: 18 January 2012
In an interview with the BBC last December, Pakistan’s Foreign Minister, Ms Hina Rabbani Khar admitted that the Pakistan army’s overwhelming power and influence over the civilian government...
Time for Solidarity with Balochs
By: B Raman |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 18 January 2012
The Killing Fields of Balochistan have started shocking the conscience of the international community. Not only non-governmental human rights organisations, but even Governmental spokesmen of...
Assertive Dragon
By: Dr Pushpa Adhikari |Issue: Book Excerpt: China Threat in South Asia | Date: 16 January 2012
Ahead of offering an Indian perspective on rising China, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh (in Washington) said lately, “there is but a certain amount of assertiveness on the Chinese part”...
Is Memogate Scandal planted by ISI?
By: Bharat Verma |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 16 January 2012
Pakistan is known NATO ally of United States. The Ambassador of Pakistan therefore is a very important player in Washington. He has full access to the top people both in the State Department and...
Indian Air Force Airlift Capability
By: Air Marshal BK Pandey |Issue: Vol. 26.3 July - Sept 2011 | Date: 15 January 2012
Since the nation gained independence on August 15, 1947, combat elements of the Indian Air Force (IAF) have been involved in three conflicts, two major and one minor – and all of them have been...
The India factor in Afghanistan
By: VK Shashikumar |Issue: Vol 23.3 Jul-Sep 2008 | Date: 14 January 2012
In 2001 US and its allies launch the war against terrorism after the world is stunned by the horrific terror on the WTC twin towers in New York. Seven years later Osama bin Laden and Mullah Omar...
Pakistan's export of fake currency via Nepal
By: VK Shashikumar |Issue: Vol. 23.4 Oct-Dec 2008 | Date: 13 January 2012
At most places along the 751 km Bihar-Terai contiguous no-man’s land on the India-Nepal border are dirt tracks. Solitary signpost marks the international boundary here. On one side is Bihar, on...
Game Plan for Return of Musharraf
By: Bharat Verma |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 11 January 2012
< !DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> There is a clear link between Musharraf’s announcements to fight elections in 2012 and lead his party, propping up of Imran Khan, and Pakistan Army and the ISI. In a pre-planned move Musharraf...
Will China threat last beyond two years?
By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 11 January 2012
A strange and amazing question to stall military expansion programme has been raised by the Finance Ministry to the Defence Ministry today: Will China threat last beyond two years? What it...
Unfolding US foreign policy attempts to contain China
By: B Raman |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 09 January 2012
As President Obama nears the end of his first term and gets ready to seek a second term, he has sought to give a new focus to the US foreign policy towards Asia. This new focus is marked by two...
Future of Asian Air Power-2030
By: Air Commodore Ramesh Phadke |Issue: Book Excerpt: Asia 2030 - The Unfolding Future | Date: 08 January 2012
Air power has been with us for nearly a century. Within less than a decade of the historic first flight of a ‘heavier than air machine’ at Kitty Hawk in the US on 17 December 1903, the...
China bolsters Pak Army's image
By: B Raman |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 06 January 2012
As the Pakistan Army confronts the US on the one hand and the civilian leadership headed by President Asif Ali Zardari on the other in a triangular re-assertion of its primacy in strategic...
Navy needs more Aircraft Carrier Battle Groups
By: Dr Amarjit Singh |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 04 January 2012
Since a few years now, India has been working towards procuring three aircraft carriers, commensurate with the mission and request of the Indian Navy to defend India’s sea coast and sea...