Articles in Net Edition
Kashmir Under Spotlight and Our Response
By: Danvir Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 Dec , 2014
Kashmir has come under focus for all the reasons that should worry India. The LOC has recently become active, as there have been a large number of cease fire violations and hostile actions by our...
Airbus delivers more naval radars to US Navy under contract to Lockheed Martin
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 26 Nov , 2014
Airbus Defense and Space has installed and put into operation the third TRS-3D naval radar for the U.S. Navy’s Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) program through its agreement with LCS prime contractor,...
Five Indian university teams accept Lockheed Martin challenge to design C-130J
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 26 Nov , 2014
Teams from five leading Indian universities presented their conceptual designs to Lockheed Martin officials in New Delhi last week, launching the C-130J Roll-On/Roll-Off University Design...
Boeing Delivers Sixth P-8I Maritime Patrol Aircraft to India
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 26 Nov , 2014
Boeing delivered the sixth P-8I maritime patrol aircraft to India, on schedule, on Nov. 24, arriving at Naval Air Station Rajali to join five others being used by the Indian Navy. The P-8I is part...
PM Narendra Modi hands over HAL Dhruv to Nepal
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 26 Nov , 2014
The Prime Minister Mr. Narendra Modi today handed over an indigenous Advanced Light Helicopter (ALH) – Dhruv – built by Hindustan Aeronautics Limited to the Prime Minister of Nepal Mr. Sushil...
Nehru’s Pacifism had nearly cost us Tawang
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 25 Nov , 2014
It is entirely due to Major Bob Khathing’s courage and swift action, backed by the Assam Governor, that Tawang is part of India. Had Jawaharlal Nehru had his way, it would have been Chinese...
SAARC without Pakistan
By: Danvir Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 25 Nov , 2014
Prime Minister of India Mr Narendra Modi had described his first major foreign policy initiative of inviting South Asian Association Regional Cooperation (SAARC) leaders for his swearing-in on...
Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar Inaugurates IMAC, a Navy-CG Joint...
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 24 Nov , 2014
The Defence Minister Shri Manohar Parrikar inaugurated the Indian Navy and Coast Guard’s joint operations facility, called the Information Management and Analysis Centre (IMAC), at Gurgaon on 23...
Indo-Israel Relations
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 23 Nov , 2014
A significant boos to Indo-Israeli ties, the recent government clearance of Rupees 80,000 crore worth defence projects included Import of 8,356 anti-tank guided missile from Israel worth Rs 3,200...
ASEAN’s Answer to the Coup d’état in Thailand
By: Anant Mishra | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 22 Nov , 2014
The Thai national security situation has been shaky at best in the aftermath of a series of political problems in the last couple of years. A sustained period of political turmoil has...
President Awards Standards to 115 Helicopter Unit and 26 Sqn of IAF
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 21 Nov , 2014
The Hon’ble President of India and Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces, Shri Pranab Mukherjee, awarded the prestigious President’s Standard to 115 Helicopter Unit and 26 Squadron in a grand...
Airbus awarded 13 million Euro periscope maintenance facility for India
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 18 Nov , 2014
Maintenance facility enhances operational readiness of Indian fleet Airbus Defence and Space’s Optronics business unit and the Indian Ministry of Defence have signed a 13 million Euro contract...
Al-Qaeda set to burn the Ganga Post 2014
By: Danvir Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 16 Nov , 2014
The year 2014 is very important to many of us, in the Indian sub-continent for some reason or other. The importance of which is being discussed on the television, the radio and in the print media...
Bangladesh Military's Political Retreat: Sheikh Hasina's War on Yunus & the US
By: B.Z. Khasru | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 15 Nov , 2014
When seemingly unending political street-battles gripped Bangladesh in late 2006, the United Nations pushed the country’s military in a circuitous way to take over the administration, brazenly...
Israel: The Legitimacy of Occupation
By: Brig Deepak Sinha | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 15 Nov , 2014
In an earlier article Gaza and the Israeli Intervention, I had written on the savage and brutal retaliation by Israel against the Palestinians in Gaza for the unfortunate and revolting murder of...
The Issue of Religious Extremism
By: Anant Mishra | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 14 Nov , 2014
Religion is an organized collection of beliefs, cultural systems and worldviews that relate mankind to the supernatural and spirituality. Most religions have numerous signs and symbols as well as...
Tackling the LWE Menace in India
By: Lt Gen Kamal Davar (Retd) | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 12 Nov , 2014
“Of all kinds of dangers, internal dangers should be got rid of first, for it is internal troubles, like the fear from a lurking snake, that are more serious than external troubles.” —...
Myanmar: India’s security takes another knock
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 11 Nov , 2014
Former Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar said that food worth Rupees 44,000 crores was wasted last year for lack of storage space in India including vegetables and fruits worth Rupees 13,000...
The Chinese Twin Silk Roads – Can India shake off its lethargy?
By: Navneet Bhushan | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 10 Nov , 2014
If you have to see the future, look at the map of the future. Or better why not draw the map yourself. If you are the most populous, recently turned the largest economy and the emerging new type...
Boeing Completes Testing on New Anti-Jamming Technology
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 05 Nov , 2014
Boeing has proven its new anti-jamming communications technology is capable of operating as either a ground-based user terminal or satellite-based networking hub, enabling the military to send and...