Articles in Courtesy: Uday India
The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria attacks in Paris: A shift in strategy?
By: EN Rammohan | Issue: Courtesy: Uday India | Date: 18 Dec , 2015
The massacre in Paris on November 13, following bombings in Beirut, Lebanon and the downing of a Russian passenger jet over Cairo all claimed by the ISIS reveals a terrorist organisation that has...
PoW in Tibet
By: Maj Gen KK Tewari | Issue: Courtesy: Uday India | Date: 31 Aug , 2015
In 1962, Maj. Gen. K.K. Tewari was Commander Signals of the 4 Infantry Division based in Tezpur, Assam. On October 20, 1962, as he was visiting his forward troops, the Chinese attacked India. He...
Crossing the Prohibited Line
By: Madhumanti Sen Gupta | Issue: Courtesy: Uday India | Date: 22 Jul , 2015
Four-time US president, Franklin Roosevelt could never forget his ancestral roots—in Denmark and in France. As I am putting down my thoughts on this topic, his famous words ring in my ears:...
Thinking Beyond Pakistan
By: Prakash Nanda | Issue: Courtesy: Uday India | Date: 17 Jul , 2015
Many friends and colleagues have wondered why I have not commented on the recent parleys between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif at Ufa in Russia last...
Terrorism: Emerging Patterns and Tentacles
By: A K Shrivastava | Issue: Courtesy: Uday India | Date: 15 Jul , 2015
What has raised its ugly head is the unfortunate occurrence of well co-ordinated and simultaneous strikes by the determined, indoctrinated ‘soldiers’ turned suicide bombers. If one has to...
India’s Defence Budget cast in the old mould
By: Col US Rathore | Issue: Courtesy: Uday India | Date: 16 Mar , 2015
Defence has got INR 2,46,727 crore (USD 40.07 billion), which is roughly 1.73 per cent of India’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and 13.88 per cent of the total Central expenditure. If this is...
As the Western Powers Withdraw: Afghanistan at a Crossroads
By: EN Rammohan | Issue: Courtesy: Uday India | Date: 24 Jan , 2015
The withdrawal of foreign forces from Afghanistan has left the troubled country in an undecided state. NATO alone had 1, 30,000 troops on the ground. By the year’s end this number will become...
Bengaluru’s Terror Horror
By: S A Hemantha Kumar | Issue: Courtesy: Uday India | Date: 23 Jan , 2015
By synchronising serial IED blasts IM had plans to draw North-South Blood Corridor on Republic Day Bengaluru-Hyderabad-Nagpur-Bhopal-New Delhi was the “bloody” route The success of...
Cyber Security: A Sine Qua Non
By: Sudhanshu Jain | Issue: Courtesy: Uday India | Date: 25 Nov , 2014
The recent cyber attack originating from Pakistan with regard to the exodus by the people of the northeast and the tepid response from the government are worrying causes for the people of the...
Chinese Nuclear Submarine Surfaces in Colombo
By: Bhaskar Roy | Issue: Courtesy: Uday India | Date: 22 Nov , 2014
India is being squeezed simultaneously from the land and the sea. We need to await the unveiling of the third dimension—air. Indian experts should be engaged in deciphering air. Would it be...
The 1962 lessons
By: Prakash Nanda | Issue: Courtesy: Uday India | Date: 20 Oct , 2014
China invaded India in 1962. Though there is a view that the exact date of invasion was October 10, the most acceptable one is October 20, 1962. The war ended on November 19, 1962, following the...
Research in China
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Courtesy: Uday India | Date: 24 Sep , 2014
It was recently reported that Prime Minister Narendra Modi was extremely unhappy about the state of affairs at the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO). According to the Times of...
The role of Pakistan in the Taliban insurgency
By: EN Rammohan | Issue: Courtesy: Uday India | Date: 09 Sep , 2014
The name Afghanistan means the land of the Afghans. The origins of the name Afghan remain unclear. Its use dates from the 18th century, when Pashtun tribes began to carve out a region of Central...
Unchecked Infiltration
By: Shib Shankar Chatterjee | Issue: Courtesy: Uday India | Date: 05 Mar , 2014
Muhammad Jamil Rehman, a trader, who had come to India to get his mother treated, was one of those, who preferred to stay back, for thorough health check-ups of his mother in India, where medical...
India’s First Supersonic Jet MiG-21
By: Joydeep Dasgupta | Issue: Courtesy: Uday India | Date: 27 Dec , 2013
Every one of us wants to fly high above the sky and therefore our fascination towards the sky always remains in our dreams and therefore we keep watching aircraft and feel envy of them. There...
Submarines: Pride of Oceanic Depths
By: Joydeep Dasgupta | Issue: Courtesy: Uday India | Date: 24 Dec , 2013
Aircraft carriers and other warships are all visible platforms on sea. However, navies worldwide operate vessels that are largely unseen, which lurk undetected beneath the sea but are capable of...
Is al-Qaeda Waning?
By: Col US Rathore | Issue: Courtesy: Uday India | Date: 01 Oct , 2013
Al-Qaeda came into being in 1988-89, in Peshawar, Pakistan. The nine-year-long Soviet occupation of Afghanistan had turned into an ignominious retreat at the hands of Mujahedeen and Taliban. These...
The Chinese Dream is Over: The Seven Perils
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Courtesy: Uday India | Date: 25 Sep , 2013
On August 19, an important meeting was held in Beijing during which President Xi Jinping called for a renewal of China’s focus on Marxist ideology. Xi was addressing a national conference on...
Reading China on Sino-Indian Border Issue
By: Bhaskar Roy | Issue: Courtesy: Uday India | Date: 06 Aug , 2013
The Chinese communist leadership has perfected the act of saying things and giving signals, leaving it to the other side to decipher and understand Their internal speeches and documents are...
Revoking AFSPA would be a folly
By: Sunita Vakil | Issue: Courtesy: Uday India | Date: 30 Mar , 2013
The new phase of violence that has swept Kashmir once again highlights the fact that the overall situation remains on knife’s edge. Militants disguised as cricketers killed five paramilitary...