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Is India Scared of China?
By: Prakash Nanda | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 14 May , 2014
Ms Annette Lu, the Vice President of the Republic of China, better known as Taiwan, is still finding it hard to believe that the Vajpayee government did not allow her to visit the earthquake...
Non Implementation of One Rank One Pension
By: Maj Gen Satbir Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 13 May , 2014
The UPA Govt announced the grant of One Rank One Pension (OROP) to all defence personnel with lot of fan fare and earned lot of gratitude and accolades from the defence fraternity. During the...
Election Commission and Defence Services voters
By: Lt Gen Harwant Singh | Issue: Courtesy: HT (Chd edition) | Date: 12 May , 2014
Just and fair elections are the very bed rock of democracy, where no group or groups of people are disadvantaged in any manner or denied this basic right, by subterfuge or through coercion or any...
Pakistan: The Art of Lying
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 12 May , 2014
John F Kennedy had said, “No matter how big the lie; repeat it often and the masses will regard it as truth”. However, wisdom speaks that quotes more often are like guidelines that cannot be...
Immediate East
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Date: 12 May , 2014
The over 56 million population of Myanmar (68 percent Burman, 9 percent Shan, 7percent Karen, 4 percent Rakhine, 3 percent Chinese, 2 percent each Indian and Mon, and 5 percent others) has never...
BrahMos Supersonic Cruise Missile : Cementing Deterrence
By: Dr Monika Chansoria | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 10 May , 2014
With the Indian Army successfully test firing an advanced version of the 290 km-range supersonic cruise missile BrahMos in April 2014, India has displayed its continuing advancement towards...
Northeast: the Role of Narcotics and Arms Trafficking
By: Brig (Dr) SP Sinha | Issue: Book Excerpt: Lost Opportunities | Date: 10 May , 2014
The illegal narcotics trade is one of the major reasons for the continuance of insurgencies in the North-east. The consequences of trafficking in narcotics are many; for one, it is a major source...
Containing Maoist Insurgency: An Organisational Approach
By: S V Raghavan and V Balasubramaniyan | Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 08 May , 2014
India has been suffering from armed internal violence for the past four decades. Terrorists and insurgent groups have created havoc in various parts of India, targeting combatants and...
India to Provide Helicopters to Afghanistan
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 08 May , 2014
As per the Indian Minister of External Affairs, Salman Khurshid, India as agreed to provide helicopters to war-torn Afghanistan in the near future. Apparently, this decision of the Government of...
Airbus A-330 Multi Role Tanker Transport (MRTT) for Singapore
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 08 May , 2014
The Republic of Singapore Air Force has opted to acquire six Airbus A-330 MRTT flight refuelling aircraft under a new contract with the European aerospace major Airbus Defence and Space. The...
F-35 Lightning II for South Korea
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 08 May , 2014
As part of its F-X fighter jet acquisition programme, South Korea has taken a decision to procure the F-35 Lightning II fifth generation combat aircraft built by Lockheed Martin...
Withdrawal from Siachen – a manifestation of Prithviraj Chauhan syndrome!
By: Maj Gen Mrinal Suman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 08 May , 2014
Siachen is in the news again.Having served at the glacier, one is aware of the ground realities. It is being suggested that ‘demilitarization’ of the glacier will act as a catalyst to foster...
Indian Foreign Policy under Modi
By: Prakash Nanda | Date: 07 May , 2014
Speech by Prakash Nanda at Australia-India Institute, University of Melbourne, on May 6, 2013 First of all, I am grateful to the Australia -India Institute for inviting me and providing a great...
The Subverted Indo-Bangladesh Border : I
By: VK Shashikumar | Issue: Vol 24.2 Apr-Jun 2009 | Date: 07 May , 2014
Operation Zero Line Investigates the gateway of terror in the East – the 4,095 km (2,979 km land border and 1,116 km riverine border) long India-Bangladesh border, half of which is along West...
SonAir takes delivery of a new EC225 from Airbus Helicopters
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 06 May , 2014
Airbus Helicopters’ EC225 presence in the African oil and gas heli-lift market will expand following delivery of an additional workhorse rotorcraft to SonAir, which is to deploy this long-range...
Royal Brunei Airlines selects the A320neo
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 06 May , 2014
Royal Brunei Airlines (RB) has signed a contract with Airbus covering the firm order of seven A320neo aircraft plus three options, under the latest phase of its fleet modernisation programme....
Boeing Delivers 100th EA-18G Growler to US Navy
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 06 May , 2014
Boeing delivered the 100th EA-18G Growler to the U.S. Navy, marking a major milestone in the program that has transformed airborne electronic warfare capability for the U.S. and its allies. A...
A Modi government must project a more robust foreign policy
By: Kanwal Sibal | Date: 06 May , 2014
Now that it appears that the next government in New Delhi could well be Modi-led, questions about the possible changes in India’s foreign policy are being raised inside and outside the...
Creation of Bangladesh: Shining Moment or Strategic Blunder
By: Maj Gen Sheru Thapliyal, PhD | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 06 May , 2014
“DURGA ASTRIDE A TIGER”. This is how Atal Behari Vajpayee described Indira Gandhi immediately after India’s lightening victory in the 1971 war, which resulted in creation of Bangladesh. ...
Taking on the Dragon
By: Maj Gen Sheru Thapliyal, PhD | Issue: Vol. 27.4 Oct-Dec 2012 | Date: 06 May , 2014
A defeat in a future conflict with China will be a disaster for India. Apart from the economic ruin, it will substantially damage India’s standing in the comity of nations and degrade her...