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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...
Tibet: why is China so nervous?
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Courtesy: http://claudearpi.blogspot.in/ | Date: 09 Oct , 2014
China is slowly but surely tightening its grip on Tibet. The latest sign is the ‘upgradation’ of the status of the Tibet Armed Police’s Political Commissar. The Global Times yesterday announced...
Glimpses of Indian Air Force Day 2014 Parade at Air Force Station Hindan
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 09 Oct , 2014
But for China!
By: RSN Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 08 Oct , 2014
The decade of 50s was characterized by romanticisation of communism in India. Such was the romance that many leaders of the post-Independence dispensation, most of who claimed to have made huge...
Rear Admiral Ajendra Bahadur Singh takes over as Eastern Fleet Commander
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 08 Oct , 2014
Rear Admiral Atul Kumar Jain, VSM, Flag Officer Commanding Eastern Fleet, handed over the command of the Eastern Fleet to Rear Admiral Ajendra Bahadur Singh, VSM. The change of guard took place...
The Indian Atom Bomb
By: Air Marshal RK Nehra | Issue: Book Excerpt: Hinduism & its Military Ethos | Date: 08 Oct , 2014
On 11 and 13 May 1998, India crashed into the exclusive and elitist club of the ‘Nuclear Haves’, with five nuclear blasts; the whole country was euphoric. Pakistan responded on 28 and 30 May...
Slump in Maoists’ War: An Opportunity to Reap
By: Shashank Ranjan | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 07 Oct , 2014
On 20 September 2014, The Indian Express carried a report, captioned, “Ahead of Global Meet, Maoists Admit to Setbacks”. The report mentions about a letter uploaded on CPI (Maoist)...
It is time to wrest the initiative from Pakistan
By: Col Jaibans Singh | Issue: Courtesy: www.defenceinfo.com | Date: 06 Oct , 2014
There seems to be no stopping Pakistan from digging its own gave on the Kashmir issue. Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif faced considerable embarrassment for his unfortunate address to the...
Sardar Patel’s Foreign Policy
By: Prakash Nanda | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 06 Oct , 2014
Now that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has ensured that the country “acknowledges” the contributions of India’s first Deputy Prime Minister and Home Minister Sardar Vallabhai Patel towards...
Sikorsky Unveils S-97 RAIDER Helicopter
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 06 Oct , 2014
Sikorsky Aircraft, a subsidiary of United Technologies Corp., today unveiled the first of two S-97 RAIDER(TM) helicopter prototypes, signaling the start of activities in the program’s test flight...
Dealing with the US always tests our diplomacy
By: Kanwal Sibal | Date: 06 Oct , 2014
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s US visit presented him with a difficult challenge. At the rhetorical level, projecting the India-US relationship as between two democracies is easy. The US calls...
Modernisation of India’s Military Aviation
By: Air Commodore KB Menon | Issue: Vol 26.1 Jan-Mar 2011 | Date: 06 Oct , 2014
Indian military aviation went through its first phase of modernisation during the mid sixties and the second phase was in the late seventies to early eighties. Today India’s military aviation...
The forgotten hero of Punjab – Jassa Singh Ahluwalia
By: Sumant Dhamija | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 06 Oct , 2014
The year was 1762. In a forgotten corner of the world, Punjab was fighting for her freedom. Ahmad Shah Abdali (Durrani), lord of Punjab whose vassal included the Mughal emperor in Delhi and the...
How much will the ISIS and Al Qaeda impact Indians?
By: Ganapathy Vanchinathan | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 01 Oct , 2014
Recently, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in his first interview as Prime Minister of India to a TV channel, responding to a question on the formation of AQIS, said it would be delusional to think...
Strengthen India’s Aerospace Power
By: Air Chief Marshal SP Tyagi | Issue: Vol 22.1 Jan - Mar 2007 | Date: 01 Oct , 2014
India missed out on the first industrial revolution and as a result, for centuries, we remained an agrarian society. A large part of our population continued to languish in poverty. Today, India...
Thales & Bharat Electronics form a joint venture in India
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 30 Sep , 2014
Navratna Defence Public Sector Undertaking Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL) and Thales announce that the Ministry of Corporate Affairs, Government of India, has approved the incorporation of their...
Indo-US relations: Not natural partners at all
By: Kanwal Sibal | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 30 Sep , 2014
If the media coverage in India of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s US visit and the adulation with which the Indian-American community greeted him in New York were any yardstick, it can already be...
The Arc of the India-US Partnership
By: Kanwal Sibal | Issue: Vol. 27.2 Apr-Jun 2012 | Date: 29 Sep , 2014
Today, the India-US relationship is a transformed one with the change in Indian thinking about America being the most important element. Being ‘pro-American’ is not a stigma any longer...
Reinvention of Jihadi Terror from Pakistan
By: Vikram Sood | Date: 27 Sep , 2014
The Islamic State of Iraq and Shams (ISIS) is neither a magical nor a mythical creation but the creation of vested interests. The Afghan Mujahedeen, followed by al-Qaeda and...
Xi in India: a thorny route at home?
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Courtesy: http://claudearpi.blogspot.in/ | Date: 27 Sep , 2014
There are two ways to look at an event, especially a State visit by a foreign dignitary: it can be described as a resounding success, a game-changer, or it can be seen as a missed opportunity, a...