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Cycling 25,000 Kilometers Showcases Women Safety and Empowerment in India
By: Nilesh Kunwar | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 07 Aug , 2023
What would you do if you didn’t agree with the perception that India’s not a safe place for women? Perhaps you would simply dismiss this sweeping observation being motivated or an...
BRICS and De-dollarization
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 05 Aug , 2023
There is perceptible glee in the US over Russian President Vladimir Putin physically not attending the upcoming 15th BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) Summit scheduled in...
SAM Manekshaw on Leadership and Discipline
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 04 Aug , 2023
Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw’s Lecture at Defence Services College, Wellington on Leadership and Discipline 11th November, 1998. Commandant, Ladies and Gentlemen, I am fully conscious of the...
Chandrayaan-3: What would landing on the lunar South Pole mean for India and...
By: Neeraj Mahajan | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 Aug , 2023
On 14 July 2023, Chandrayaan-3 India’s third spacecraft began its 384,400-kilometre journey towards the Moon atop the medium-lift Launch Vehicle Mark-III (LVM3) rocket, positioning India as a...
Muharram Procession in Srinagar: a ‘Win-Win’ Situation for All
By: Nilesh Kunwar | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 31 Jul , 2023
It’s after more than three decade hiatus that Srinagar once again witnessed the traditional Alam Sharief procession that marks the occasion of 8th Muharram and the fact that this major event in...
DRDO Chairman lauds GRSE’s initiatives on Autonomous Vessels in the...
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 31 Jul , 2023
Kolkata-based Defence PSU Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers (GRSE) Ltd, launched an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) on Friday (July 28, 2023). In a pioneering move towards the...
Manipur: Into the Abyss
By: Brig Deepak Sinha | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 28 Jul , 2023
Common sense tells us that all successful businesses are primarily driven by the profits they hope to earn. A possibility only in a peaceful and stable environment where law and order are not an...
The India-China Relationship: The Way Forward
By: Sumant Dhamija and Neelotpal Mishra | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 27 Jul , 2023
In a desert region deep in the northern heart of China, in the town of Huangyangatan, is a 1:500 scale model reflecting 157,000 sqaure kilometres of Aksai Chin and Eastern Ladakh. This model,...
Son, roll down this nalla
By: Claude Arpi | Date: 26 Jul , 2023
On the occasion of the Kargil Vijay Day, Claude Arpi’s interview with Param Vir Chakra, Yogender Singh Yadav. Yogender Singh Yadav survived 15 bullets while capturing Tiger Hill in the Kargil War...
Air Power in decisive role in Kargil War
By: Gp Capt (Dr) DK Pandey (Retd.) | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 26 Jul , 2023
To cut off the link between Kashmir Valley and Ladakh in April 1999, around 1500 Pakistani army personnel and Mujahedeen invaded Indian territory in Kargil sector of Jammu, and Kashmir. The...
Book review of the Book “Nation First”
By: Lt Gen (Dr) JS Bajwa | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 26 Jul , 2023
Publisher: Hachette India | ISBN: 9789357311663 | B Format Paperback | Pages: 240 | Price: INR 399 This Book is not a historical record recounting the details of the Kargil War of 1999. Nor is it...
Lessons in Missile Warfare: Russia–Ukraine Conflict
By: Col Deepak Kumar | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 25 Jul , 2023
Introduction While there is mention of use of missiles at numerous places in the Vedic literature and other prehistoric epics of India, the modern use of missiles is attributed to the Germans who...
In praise of folly: How lifting the ban on Islamic radical organizations can...
By: Dr Punsara Amarasinghe | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 24 Jul , 2023
Sri Lanka witnessed its first brutal experience from the Islamic fundamentalism in 2019 April, which was known as “Easter attacks” resulted in more than 250 civilians’deaths including...
Kargil Controversy: Army trashes IAF perspective
By: Lt Gen (Dr) Mohan Bhandari, (Retd.) | Issue: Vol 25.2 Apr-Jun 2010 | Date: 24 Jul , 2023
While Air Marshal Bedi in his article ‘KARGIL-AN IAF PERSPECTIVE’ has tried his best to educate readers, in his words, “inadequate understanding of fundamental percepts of air power… and...
Theatre Commands: Apprehensions, Challenges and Alternatives
By: Gp Capt PK Mulay | Issue: Vol. 38.2, Apr-Jun 2023 | Date: 23 Jul , 2023
Soldiers hate two things; change and the way things are — Anon The National Defence Academy (NDA) was established with the lofty ideal of inculcating a sense of camaraderie among the cadets....
SOS from North East India
By: Col Anil Athale | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 22 Jul , 2023
The violence that began in May 2023 and seems to continue to date, has the potential to unravel peace in the entire North Eastern region. Peace in the North East has been brought about after...
Maritime Cyber Security Concerns
By: Vice Admiral MP Muralidharan | Issue: Vol. 38.2, Apr-Jun 2023 | Date: 21 Jul , 2023
The globalisation of trade and commerce as well as increasing liberalisation has resulted in interlinking of economies of nations towards the end of the last century. Development of newer...
J&K: Pakistan’s Proxy War and India’s Response
By: Nilesh Kunwar | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 20 Jul , 2023
Pakistan’s Lament Islamabad has a perpetual grudge that it isn’t taken seriously by the global community. While this observation is undeniably true, international apathy towards Pakistan is...
Argentinian Defence Minister Visits HAL. LoI Signed on Co-operation for...
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 20 Jul , 2023
HAL and the Ministry of Defence of The Republic of Argentina have signed a Letter of Intent (LoI) on productive cooperation and acquisition of Light and Medium Utility Helicopters for the armed...
Does the SCO 2023 Summit Hint at the Organisation’s Dilution?
By: Neelapu Shanti | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 19 Jul , 2023
In pursuit of its vision for peace, prosperity and development in the Asian region, the 23rd Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit under India’s first ever presidency chaired by Prime...