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The Henderson-Brooks Report is out by Neville Maxwell

The Henderson-Brooks Report is out by Neville Maxwell

By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 11 Jul , 2014

The Henderson-Brooks/Bhagat Report of the 1962 is out! Neville Maxwell, the author of  India’s China War has posted the famous Report on his website. Here are his explanations. Click to download...

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Defence Budget 2014: Allocation Raised to Rs 2,29,000 crore

Defence Budget 2014: Allocation Raised to Rs 2,29,000 crore

By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 10 Jul , 2014

Allocation for defence in this year’s General Budget has been raised to Rs 2,29,000 crore. Presenting the Union Budget in Lok Sabha today, the Union Finance Minister Shri Arun Jaitley also...

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Article-370: Why not discuss and not simply debate abrogation?

Article-370: Why not discuss and not simply debate abrogation?

By: Daya Sagar | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 08 Jul , 2014

The subjects and jurisdictions of the Center (Union) and States have been classified under Article 246 of Indian Constitution (1950) as (1) UNION list, (2) State list and (3) Concurrent List...

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DRDO Chief Calls for Indigenous Defence Production, Capability Development Plan

DRDO Chief Calls for Indigenous Defence Production, Capability Development Plan

By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 08 Jul , 2014

Commitment to Indigenous defence production and creation of a Capability Development Plan, are the major prerequisite for creating Indigenous defence manufacturing capability in the country,...

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Lenco announces successful Blast Test of BEAR Troop Transport Armored Vehicle

Lenco announces successful Blast Test of BEAR Troop Transport Armored Vehicle

By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 08 Jul , 2014

Lenco Industries, Inc., the global leader in the design and manufacture of armored police vehicles, announces successful underbody and side blast testing of the BEAR® 17-man Troop Transport...

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Pakistan must not be India’s neighbor

Pakistan must not be India’s neighbor

By: Dr Amarjit Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 08 Jul , 2014

Does India want good neighborly relations with its neighbors?  Yes, but not with Pakistan.  Does India love its neighbors?  Yes, but not Pakistan.  Should India live on good terms with its...

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Tawang is not part of China!

Tawang is not part of China!

By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 05 Jul , 2014

The Dalai Lama took refuge in India on March 31, 1959. He crossed the Indian border at Khenzimane at the bottom of the famous Thagla ridge in West Kameng Frontier Division of the North-East...

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KMW and Nexter Systems plan alliance

KMW and Nexter Systems plan alliance

By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 02 Jul , 2014

Krauss-Maffei Wegmann (KMW) and Nexter Systems (Nexter), two leading European providers of land defence systems, intend to share their future road ahead. On 01. July 2014 in Paris, the owners of...

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Indigenously Built Stealth Frigate Ship INS Sahyadri reached USA to...

Indigenously Built Stealth Frigate Ship INS Sahyadri reached USA to...

By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 02 Jul , 2014

Covering a distance of over 5000 nautical miles (9000 Km), Indian Naval Ship Sahyadri, an indigenously built guided missile stealth Frigate arrived today at Pearl Harbour, USA to participate in...

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Siachen Unmasked

Siachen Unmasked

By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 Jul , 2014

Much water has flown under the bridge since 2nd October 2012 when Atlantic Council of Ottawa put out the news bulletin titled “India-Pakistan experts agree on confidence-building measures at...

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Continuous Substantive Procurement for Indian Defense

Continuous Substantive Procurement for Indian Defense

By: Dr Amarjit Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 30 Jun , 2014

India is a unique country for many reasons. But one possibly under-looked factor is that it faces security or destabilizing threats from every neighbor.  This is even worse than Israel, which is...

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Dauntless and Born Leader of Men in Crisis - L/Nk Karam Singh

Dauntless and Born Leader of Men in Crisis - L/Nk Karam Singh

By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 28 Jun , 2014

Lance Naik Karam Singh was born on 15 September 1915, in Barnala, Punjab. He was enrolled in 1 SIKH on 15 September 1941. During the Jammu & Kashmir operations in the summer of 1948 the Indian...

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PSLV-C23 Launch Scheduled on June 30, 2014

PSLV-C23 Launch Scheduled on June 30, 2014

By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 24 Jun , 2014

The launch of ISRO’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle, PSLV-C23, is scheduled on June 30, 2014 (Monday) from Satish Dhawan Space Centre SHAR, Sriharikota. The vehicle lift-off time is scheduled at...

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HAL Inducts Over 400 Young Officers

HAL Inducts Over 400 Young Officers

By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 24 Jun , 2014

Over 400 management and design trainees – selected through stringent procedures amid lakhs of applicants – have formally been inducted in Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) as officers at a...

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Unraveling the direction of India’s China policy

Unraveling the direction of India’s China policy

By: Col R Hariharan | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 24 Jun , 2014

Since then Prime Minister Modi has returned home after his maiden foreign visit to Bhutan. Modi’s as a relationship building exercise it may be called a moderately successful visit, considering...

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Infrastructure, energy, defence key sectors for India-Japan cooperation

Infrastructure, energy, defence key sectors for India-Japan cooperation

By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 24 Jun , 2014

Pushing for greater multi-sector cooperation between New Delhi and Tokyo, senior political representatives identified infrastructure, energy and defence as key areas for partnership between the...

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Strategic Depth – Not Mere Military Term

Strategic Depth – Not Mere Military Term

By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 23 Jun , 2014

Strategic Depth is a term generally related to military operations. It has been  described as the distances between the front-lines or battle sectors and the combatant’s capital cities,...

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IAF welcomes 193 Flying Officers

IAF welcomes 193 Flying Officers

By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 21 Jun , 2014

The morning of 21 Jun 2014 saw the officer who graduated thirty nine years ago, come back as Chief Guest to review the Combined Graduation Parade at Air Force Academy, Dundigal.  Air Chief...

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Armed Force Transformation and the National Security Problems

Armed Force Transformation and the National Security Problems

By: Brig Deepak Sinha | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 21 Jun , 2014

With issues of getting India back on track economically and serious problems in keeping the navy afloat, India’s policy makers probably have little time to worry about the recent events that...

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Nexter, L&T and Ashok Leyland signed agreement for MGS programme of the...

Nexter, L&T and Ashok Leyland signed agreement for MGS programme of the...

By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 21 Jun , 2014

Nexter Systems, Larsen & Toubro Limited (L&T) and Ashok Leyland Defence Systems have signed a consortium agreement to collaborate for the Mounted Gun System (MGS) artillery programme of the Indian...

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