Articles in Courtesy: HT (Chd edition)
Speeding up DRDO output
By: Lt Gen Harwant Singh | Issue: Courtesy: HT (Chd edition) | Date: 30 Aug , 2014
The Prime Minister Narendra Modi has called upon Defence Research and Development Organization (DRDO) to speed up projects and advance delivery schedules. He has opined that India can be world...
Government should give due consideration to selection of defence minister
By: Lt Gen Harwant Singh | Issue: Courtesy: HT (Chd edition) | Date: 23 May , 2014
There are many contenders for ministerial berths in the new government at the centre. Prime minister has the onerous task of putting the right man in the right job. There will be pressure on him...
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...
New game plan to deny soldier’s right to cast the ballot
By: Lt Gen Harwant Singh | Issue: Courtesy: HT (Chd edition) | Date: 05 Mar , 2014
Earlier soldiers (which includes sailors and airmen too) were required to cast their vote by postal ballot. The procedure devised for this was so convoluted, that it was simply inoperative. Less...