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Is West Bengal becoming a new jihadi terror hub?
By: Saikat Datta | Issue: Courtesy: www.hindustantimes.com | Date: 17 Oct , 2014
For several months, senior operatives of Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) quietly slipped into India to visit seven madrasas across three West Bengal border districts to build a robust...
Road Parallel to the LAC in Arunachal Pradesh
By: Lt Gen (Dr) JS Bajwa | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 17 Oct , 2014
The announcement by the Government to construct an 1800 km long road running parallel to the LAC in Arunachal Pradesh (AP) is a purposive step but specious at best and is likely to remain a...
When Modi made his moves in the US
By: Vikram Sood | Date: 17 Oct , 2014
There was more to Narendra Modi’s visit to the US than the razzmatazz of Madison Square Garden and Central Park. He had gone to the US after three basic foreign policy initiatives, and was...
Geopolitics of falling Oil Prices
By: Akhil Handa | Issue: Courtesy: www.theindianrepublic.com | Date: 17 Oct , 2014
Reputations are made and destroyed in the oil industry for those hazarding educated estimates of where the oil price is headed. Remember the prediction that oil price is headed to $200 per...
Boeing Delivers 18th P-8A Poseidon to the US Navy
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 17 Oct , 2014
Boeing delivered the 18th P-8A Poseidon aircraft to the U.S. Navy ahead of schedule October 14, where it joined other Poseidon aircraft being used to train Navy crews. The P-8A departed Boeing...
Rolls-Royce advance and Ultrafan CTi Fan Blade flies for the first time
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 17 Oct , 2014
The Rolls-Royce composite carbon/titanium (CTi) fan blade for the Advance and UltraFan™ engine designs has taken to the skies for the first time, marking another milestone for the programme. A...
Successful implementation of the new redesigned shaft on first EC225s/EC725s
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 17 Oct , 2014
Airbus Helicopters is working alongside operators of its EC225 and EC725 aircraft to implement the final step of its proven solution: the retrofit of the worldwide EC225/EC725 fleet with the...
ISIS Flags in Kashmir: Dangers ensconced in mass appeal
By: Danvir Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 16 Oct , 2014
On Oct 14, Indians were shocked by the visuals on their television sets of a stone pelting ritual in Srinagar. An event generally played out after the Friday prayers, however this time occurring...
The Rajapaksa Model of Combating Terror
By: VK Shashikumar | Issue: Vol 24.4 Oct-Dec 2009 | Date: 16 Oct , 2014
Mahinda Rajapaksa, President, Sri Lanka spoke to VK Shashikumar of the Indian Defence Review on a range of issues on August 7, 2009, in an exclusive interview. The Rajapaksa Model of combating...
Why ISIS should torment Omar Abdullah?
By: RSN Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 16 Oct , 2014
On October 10, masked men hoisted the ISIS flag in Srinagar’s Jamia Masjid. This incident followed the Friday prayers. A similar incident had taken place on October 6, wherein some youth waved...
Gaza and the Israeli Intervention
By: Brig Deepak Sinha | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 16 Oct , 2014
In recent days we have been witness to live television coverage that made us all unwilling, but nonetheless, active participants in what could only be called mass murder of innocents in that...
Indian Warships Visit – Mombasa
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 15 Oct , 2014
Indian Naval Ships Mumbai, Talwar, Teg and Deepak under the Command of Rear Admiral R Hari Kumar, VSM, the Flag Officer Commanding Western Fleet, are on a two-month long Overseas Deployment to...
Al Qaeda’s India Threat
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 15 Oct , 2014
Immediately post Ayman al-Zawahiri announcing establishment of an India Wing of Al Qaeda, prompt came a US media report quoting US counter-terrorism expert Bergen that there is no evidence of Al...
India’s Strategic Missiles
By: Arun S Vishwakarma | Issue: Vol 22.1 Jan - Mar 2007 | Date: 15 Oct , 2014
The Agni series of strategic missiles were developed as part of Integrated Guided Missile Programme (IGDMP). The IGDMP was launched in 1983 to achieve self-sufficiency in missile capability, with...
Indo-China relations: Some Plain Speaking by the Indian PM
By: Brig. Gurmeet Kanwal | Date: 13 Oct , 2014
Even as President Xi Jinping was being entertained by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the bank of the Sabarmati River in Ahmedabad, Chinese and Indian troops were once again engaged in a tense...
Nuclear Non-Proliferation in Iran
By: Anant Mishra | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 13 Oct , 2014
With the advent of the Cold War, states’ possession of nuclear weapons and the capacity of these weapons to inflict catastrophic damage on enemies became a primary concern for the maintenance...
Pakistan was designed for proxy war
By: RSN Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 13 Oct , 2014
…Jawaharlal Nehru had referred to a pamphlet written by the former Chief of General Staff of Pakistani Army in his address to the Cabinet’s Defence Committee meeting on the issue of the...
Ceasefire Violations: Cut the Melodrama Please
By: Dr Simrit Kahlon | Issue: Courtesy: www.defenceinfo.com | Date: 13 Oct , 2014
Within a day of the much touted lull in ceasefire violations, Pakistan has stuck again; this has put paid to the hype created by the Indian media about the Pakistan army retracting, tail between...
Making up Asymmetric Deficit vis-à-vis China
By: Special Correspondent | Issue: Vol. 29.3 Jul-Sep 2014 | Date: 13 Oct , 2014
China’s surging economic power has been matched by increasing military might including investments in an aircraft carrier, anti-ship ballistic missiles, satellites, modern weapon systems and...
Ceasefire Violations: Has the time come to call the Pakistan’s bluff
By: Danvir Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 10 Oct , 2014
Heavy firing by Pakistani troops from across the International Border in RS Pura sector in Jammu region began on the night of Oct 5th. Since then it has been “continuing intermittently” as I...