Archives
Archives
Boeing Delivers UAE Air Force and Air Defence's 1st C-17
By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 11 May 2011
Boeing delivered the first of six C-17 Globemaster III airlifters to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) Air Force and Air Defence during a ceremony at the company’s final assembly facility in Long...
Netizen support for Osama bin Laden in China
By: B Raman |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 11 May 2011
The Chinese authorities seem to be concerned over the admiration for Osama bin Laden as an “anti-US warrior” that seems to prevail among some sections of its growing community of netizens...
SELEX Galileo foresees strategic opportunities within the Turkish market
By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 11 May 2011
SELEX Galileo, a Finmeccanica Company, has been working with Turkey for decades, establishing strong industrial links with a number of local industries. SELEX Galileo is primarily working with...
Can Pakistan unilaterally renounce US assistance?
By: B Raman |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 11 May 2011
Can Pakistan unilaterally renounce US assistance in protest against the violation of its sovereignty by the US naval commandos who raided Osama bin Laden’s house at Abbottabad on the night of...
Ten thousand Chinese teachers for India from Taiwan?
By: Claude Arpi |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 11 May 2011
Ten thousand Chinese teachers for India: that’s good news. In the years to come, it will be more and more important to know Chinese, whether the rise of China is peaceful or not. The initiative...
Nagaland: The Beginning of Insurgency - II
By: Brig (Dr) SP Sinha |Issue: Book Excerpt: Lost Opportunities | Date: 10 May 2011
The Shillong Accord The defeat of Pakistan in the 1971 Indo-Pak war was a grievous blow to Naga insurgency. The insurgents lost their bases in East Pakistan. During the war self-styled General...
Al Queda intends to nuke heart of Christianity - The Vatican?
By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 10 May 2011
In the aftermath of operation Geronimo , that killed Osama Bin Laden, leaders around the world are expecting some kind of retaliation from Al Queda. In the last week on April ‘ 2011, Wikileaks...
Nagaland: The Beginning of Insurgency - I
By: Brig (Dr) SP Sinha |Issue: Book Excerpt: Lost Opportunities | Date: 09 May 2011
The origin of the word ‘Naga’ is shrouded in mystery. It is however clear that the appellation “Nagas” was quite foreign to Nagas themselves. It is only after the advent of the British...
Did General Kayani and Pasha give shelter to Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad?
By: B Raman |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 08 May 2011
Gen.Ashfaq Pervez Kayani, the present Chief of the Army Staff (COAS), Gen.Nadeem Taj, who retired recently, and Lt.Gen. Ahmed ShujaPasha, who is on an year’s extension after having...
1971: The Gradual Escalation - IV
By: Maj Gen Sukhwant Singh |Issue: Book Excerpt: India's War since Independence | Date: 08 May 2011
Kashmir defied a political decision despite prolonged negotiations between representatives of India and Pakistan countries. Frustrated by its inabiltiy to find a solution of the problem to its...
1971: The Gradual Escalation - III
By: Maj Gen Sukhwant Singh |Issue: Book Excerpt: India's War since Independence | Date: 07 May 2011
Yahya Khan asserted that the genuine refugees from East Pakistan numbered only 2 million, and he was prepared to accept back only this number and no more. This would have left about 8 million as...
Pakistan: The cost of two-nation theory
By: Anand K Verma |Issue: Book Excerpt: Reassessing Pakistan | Date: 06 May 2011
Mohammed Ali Jinnah is on record, claiming that he brought about Pakistan single-handedly. Had he not been born would Pakistan exist today? Historians have always found the ‘Ifs’ of history...
Indian Navy Rescues Chinese Merchant Ship from Pirates
By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 06 May 2011
On the morning of 05 May an Indian Navy’s TU 142 aircraft’s persistant efforts lead to pirates evacuating a Chinese merchant vessel MV Full City. At about 0845 hrs on 05 May 11, the Indian Navy...
1971: The Gradual Escalation - II
By: Maj Gen Sukhwant Singh |Issue: Book Excerpt: India's War since Independence | Date: 06 May 2011
When news trickled in of the revolt of the Bengali elements in units of the Pakistani Army stationed in East Pakistan and of Tikka Khan’s crackdown on the nationalistic civil population, voices...
Sikorsky recognizes Indian sub continent as a potential aerospace market
By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 05 May 2011
Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation, a United Technologies company and the largest helicopter manufacturer of the world reiterates its commitment to the Indian market and recognizes the aerospace...
Laden and Ladenism
By: Prakash Nanda |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 05 May 2011
Osama Bin Laden has been killed by the Americans, though many Pakistanis and Arabs do not believe so in the absence of such “hard evidence” as displaying his dead body or the burying ritual....
Successful firing test of AASM with laser terminal guidance
By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 04 May 2011
French defense procurement agency DGA successfully performed a demonstration firing test of the AASM modular air-to-ground weapon against a land target moving at high speed. The test was carried...
Aegis Combat Systems Installed on Two New US Navy Destroyers
By: IDR News Network | Date: 04 May 2011
The U.S. Navy, supported by Lockheed Martin, has installed the Aegis Combat System aboard two new Navy destroyers, USS Gravely (DDG 107) and USS Jason Dunham (DDG 109). The Aegis Combat Systems...
1971: The Gradual Escalation - I
By: Maj Gen Sukhwant Singh |Issue: Book Excerpt: India's War since Independence | Date: 04 May 2011
When news trickled in of the revolt of the Bengali elements in units of the Pakistani Army stationed in East Pakistan and of Tikka Khan’s crackdown on the nationalistic civil population, voices...
Bin Laden's reported death in Islamabad
By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 02 May 2011
In connection with news that Osama bin Laden has been killed in a missile strike—possibly in or near Islamabad— I am reproducing below an article written on June 28, 2010, on the hunt for...