Articles in Issues
The Ships are not Built for the Harbours
By: Danvir Singh | Issue: Courtesy: The New Indian Express | Date: 20 Sep , 2016
On September 18, Home Minister Rajnath Singh cancelled his overseas visit after hearing of the attack on an army camp in Uri. Back in 2014 on December 05, six terrorists had attacked the Indian...
Not all Goliaths are Bullies
By: Brig Deepak Sinha | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 20 Sep , 2016
A recent issue of weekly magazine, Outlook, carried an article on Kashmir by Dr. Ashish Nandy, whom the magazine refers to as “India’s foremost public intellectual and renowned political...
Intelligence Key to Fighting Terrorism
By: Brig NK Bhatia, SM (Retd) | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 19 Sep , 2016
In a very significant statement in Parliament on 16 March 2016, Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar stated that “intelligence build-up cannot take place overnight”. Referring to the setting up...
Uri Attack: Government Must Act and Act Fast
By: Col Jaibans Singh | Issue: Courtesy: www.defenceinfo.com | Date: 19 Sep , 2016
The terror attack in Uri is part of a well calibrated game plan designed by Pakistan to escalate the threshold of violence in Jammu and Kashmir. Fidayeen (Suicide) squads of terrorists have been...
Kashmir Valley Troubles: Has the Penny Dropped?
By: Col Anil Athale | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 19 Sep , 2016
The recent events in Kashmir and robust Indian response does seem to indicate that Indian approach to trouble in Kashmir valley has finally come to terms with changed global scenario. Unmindful...
Time to hit and hurt the Pakistan Army!
By: Brig. Gurmeet Kanwal | Issue: Courtesy: Rediff.com | Date: 19 Sep , 2016
The Pakistan-sponsored fidayeen attack on an army camp in Uri on September 18, that resulted in the martyrdom of 17 soldiers, is the worst since 2002. Though all four fidayeenwere killed, that...
Uri Terror Attack: Statement by DGMO to Media
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 18 Sep , 2016
A group of heavily armed terrorists opened fire on an administrative base of one of the units of Indian Army at Uri in Kashmir at approximately 0530 hours this morning. The firefight between the...
Terror Attack in Uri: Defence Minister and Army Chief visit Kashmir
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 18 Sep , 2016
On the day of a terror attack in Uri when four terrorists were killed and 17 soldiers martyred, the Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar and Army Chief General Dalbir Singh visited Kashmir to take...
Bangladesh, China, India and Myanmar-Economic Corridor: Ushering a New Era...
By: Dr Rupak Bhattacharjee | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Monitor | Date: 18 Sep , 2016
Bangladesh, China, India and Myanmar-Economic Corridor (BCIM-EC) seeks to deepen friendly cooperation among the four member nations and connect South Asia with South East and East Asia by...
Kill islamization to defeat Pakistan
By: RSN Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 18 Sep , 2016
India has unremittingly been attacked from Pakistan because it cannot get over the identity insecurity vis-à-vis the mother country. It relied on Islam for creation of its identity but even...
India-Vietnam Relations Elevated to Comprehensive Strategic Partnership
By: Sumit Kumar | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 18 Sep , 2016
India’s foreign policy towards East Asia has witnessed a marked shift over the last two years, with the government intent on transforming India’s relations with this part of the world under...
Kashmir and Balochistan
By: Prof MK Bhat | Issue: Courtesy: www.dailyexcelsior.com | Date: 17 Sep , 2016
Two areas that grabbed maximum headlines in the News papers/TV channels in the last month were Kashmir and Balochistan. Any problem in the former gets exaggerated sometimes more than the actual...
Winning the Asymmetric Wars – A need for Rapid Strategic Switching
By: Navneet Bhushan | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 17 Sep , 2016
Of the 43 asymmetric wars in the period 1950-1999, 51.2% wars have been won by the weaker actor. That the powerful will lose sometimes is in the nature of warfare, in general. However, they will...
Guided Missile Destroyer, Mormugao: Second Ship of Project 15B Launched at...
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 17 Sep , 2016
Another significant milestone in the annals of the Indigenous Warship design and construction programme of India was achieved with the launch of Guided Missile Destroyer, Mormugao, second ship of...
Can Prachanda use his India visit to resolve the Madhes issue at home?
By: Umesh K. Bhattarai, PhD | Issue: Courtesy: IDSA | Date: 16 Sep , 2016
Puspa Kamal Dahal “Prachanda” is on an official visit to India as prime minister of Nepal for the second time. Eight years ago, in October 2008, he had visited India for the first time as...
HAL Joins International Aerospace Quality Group (IAQG)
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 16 Sep , 2016
The Asia-Pacific Aerospace Quality Group (APAQG) has conferred its prestigious membership on HAL under the category ‘Full Member with voting rights’ making India as the seventh nation to join the...
China will fight India to the last Pakistani!
By: Bharat Verma | Issue: Vol 15.4 Oct-Dec 2000 | Date: 16 Sep , 2016
The strategic triangle in Southern Asia is unique. Pitted against two closely aligned nuclear neighbors, China and Pakistan, puts India in an extremely hostile two-front security environment....
BrahMos Missile in North-Eastern State: Is Dragon Nervous?
By: Sumit Walia | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 16 Sep , 2016
In August 2016, Government of India decided to deploy 4th regiment of BrahMos Missile in our North-Eastern state – Arunachal Pradesh. CCS’s (Cabinet Committee on Security) approved the...
AFSPA in Manipur: Securing India’s Northeast
By: Surbhi Moudgil | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 15 Sep , 2016
The 8 July 2016 verdict by Supreme Court on the Extra-Judicial Execution Victim Families Association versus Union of India, Writ Petition (Criminal) No. 129 of 2012, turned the spotlight back onto...
Central-South Asian Connectivity: New Security Panorama
By: KN Pandita | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 15 Sep , 2016
Long before the partition of India, famous Urdu poet Iqbal praised the Himalayas in glowing words and called it “our sentry and our protector”. Much water has gone down the river. The mighty...