Articles in Issues

Dangerous Islamisation of Kashmir

Dangerous Islamisation of Kashmir

By: Prakash Nanda | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 22 Oct , 2010

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has just returned from Kashmir. He appealed for peace and requested the “separatists” to return to the negotiating table. He held a series of conferences with...

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Why Pak Army reacted strongly to copter strike in Kurram?

Why Pak Army reacted strongly to copter strike in Kurram?

By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 22 Oct , 2010

“The US, while targeting the Haqqanis, is pursuing the ‘hammer and anvil approach’. Alongside the spike in the drone attacks, US Special Forces have launched an intense operation against the...

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India Goes Airborne : C130J Super Hercules for India

India Goes Airborne : C130J Super Hercules for India

By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 22 Oct , 2010

The first three of the six C130J Super Hercules aircraft for India have taken the final positions on Lockheed Martin’s assembly line in Marietta, Georgia. Equipped with Infra-red Detection Set...

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EADS to Focus on India

EADS to Focus on India

By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 22 Oct , 2010

As per EADS Chief Executive (Defence & Security) Stefan Zoller, European aerospace consortium, Eurofighter, is set to transfer some development work of its fourth generation Eurofighter Typhoon...

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Will Pakistan's queer diplomacy work?

Will Pakistan's queer diplomacy work?

By: Dr Uddipan Mukherjee, PhD | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 21 Oct , 2010

It shall not be an overstatement that India is at the focal point of Pakistan’s foreign policy. And it shall remain so unless the chassis of theocratic-jihadi complex which propels the...

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Need to act swiftly and decisively on J&K

Need to act swiftly and decisively on J&K

By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 21 Oct , 2010

The situation in Jammu & Kashmir is going from bad to worse. The widespread acts of violence on the Eid day and the outburst on September 13, 2010, in the wake of baseless rumours of insult to...

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AgustaWestland awarded contract by the Maryland State Police Aviation Command

AgustaWestland awarded contract by the Maryland State Police Aviation Command

By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 21 Oct , 2010

AgustaWestland, a Finmeccanica company, is pleased to announce today that it has been awarded a contract by the Maryland State Police Aviation Command to provide six AW139 helicopters for their...

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Myanmar going Nuclear

Myanmar going Nuclear

By: RSN Singh | Issue: Vol 24.4 Oct-Dec 2009 | Date: 20 Oct , 2010

There has been an unmistakable spurt in the development and acquisition of nuclear weapon capabilities by the Military Junta regime in Myanmar. Given the level of progress in this regard, it is...

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Agenda for Obama's Visit : Counter - Terrorism

Agenda for Obama's Visit : Counter - Terrorism

By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 20 Oct , 2010

Indo-US co-operation in counter-terrorism has the following components: Assistance in capacity building in traditional counter-terrorism: Started in the early 1980s during the administration of...

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Eurocopter inaugurates its new Eurocopter India subsidiary

Eurocopter inaugurates its new Eurocopter India subsidiary

By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 20 Oct , 2010

Eurocopter today inaugurated its new Indian subsidiary, which has been given the goals of expanding the world’s largest helicopter manufacturer’s commercial presence in this highly-promising...

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BEL Manufactured Equipment for Boeing P-8I

BEL Manufactured Equipment for Boeing P-8I

By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 20 Oct , 2010

Boeing received the first Indian manufactured item the Data Link II a month ahead of schedule, to be installed during the final assembly of the P-8I at its facility in Renton, Washington. Data...

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France pitches for India to join military operations overseas

France pitches for India to join military operations overseas

By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Vol 25.4 Oct-Dec 2010 | Date: 20 Oct , 2010

“I earnestly hope that the modernisation of India’s Mirage 2000 fleet will be executed by Dassault, Thales and MBDA.” Mr. Hervé Morin was born on 17 August 1961 in Pont-Audemer, Eure...

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Transformation of The Chinese Military

Transformation of The Chinese Military

By: Alexandre Sheldon-Duplaix | Issue: Vol 21.1 Jan-Mar 2006 | Date: 19 Oct , 2010

China’s fifth white paper, published in December 2004, outlines the objectives of a military policy focused on Taiwan1. Weaponry and equipment are identified as “the crucial material and...

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Future Trends in Aviation

Future Trends in Aviation

By: Air Marshal BK Pandey | Issue: Vol 25.1 Jan-Mar 2010 | Date: 19 Oct , 2010

Birth and Growth of Aviation Since the Wright Brothers took their first hesitant hop just over a century ago, aeronautical science has advanced at a phenomenal pace seemingly defying all limits of...

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Combating 'Red Terror'

Combating 'Red Terror'

By: Col Rajinder Singh | Issue: Vol 25.1 Jan-Mar 2010 | Date: 19 Oct , 2010

The Indian ‘Red Brigade’ is the Indian brand of Taliban. It assumes different aliases, the current favourite being ‘Maoists’. In the modern context, they stand for ‘insurgency,...

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DCNS wins EU funding for maritime safety R&D

DCNS wins EU funding for maritime safety R&D

By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 19 Oct , 2010

Improved maritime surveillance is a major challenge for European Union member states. In support of research in this important area, the European Commission has selected the I2C project led by...

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India and France share common objectives in Indian Ocean and Afghanistan

India and France share common objectives in Indian Ocean and Afghanistan

By: Admiral Edouard Guillaud | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 19 Oct , 2010

Admiral Edouard Guillaud, Chief of Defence Staff, France in a press conference at New Delhi said that his first assessment is that the world is currently undergoing a tremendous change, at a fast...

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Facing the Dragon : is India prepared?

Facing the Dragon : is India prepared?

By: Maj Gen Dhruv C Katoch | Issue: Vol 25.1 Jan-Mar 2010 | Date: 18 Oct , 2010

The contours of India’s relationship with China have been tumultuous over the last six decades. From periods of great bonhomie in the mid fifties – the ‘Hindi-Chini Bhai Bhai’ years to...

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Defence Procurements : Time for Radical Reforms

Defence Procurements : Time for Radical Reforms

By: Maj Gen Mrinal Suman | Issue: Vol 25.3 Jul-Sep 2010 | Date: 18 Oct , 2010

Defence Procurement Procedure – 2008 (DPP-2008) came into effect on 01 September 2008 and is due for biennial review in Sep 2010, under the aegis of the Defence Procurement Board. DPP has...

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'Mission Action 2010' Commencing

'Mission Action 2010' Commencing

By: PLA Daily | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 18 Oct , 2010

Exercise participating troops of Beijing MAC unfolds three-dimensional transportation (Source: PLA Daily) 2010-10-15 Since October 12, a group army of the Beijing Military Area Command (MAC) of...

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