Articles in Net Edition
Senior leadership and ‘any peg in any hole’ syndrome
By: Maj Gen Mrinal Suman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 29 May , 2013
The news of the posting of General David Petraeus as Commander of the US and NATO forces in Afghanistan must have been received with a certain degree of disbelief by the status-conscious Indian...
Maoists ambush Congress Leaders Convoy
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 27 May , 2013
The last Saturday (25th May) Maoist ambush of the convoy of Congressmen in Chhattisgarh is being described as a wakeup call in view of forthcoming elections, the term of the present State...
Cassidian launches Claricor 3: A new secure communications solution
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 21 May , 2013
Cassidian has introduced a new version of its professional radio system solution for small to medium-sized networks, called Claricor. Made for up to 5,000 users, it offers a cost-effective set-up...
Honeywell’s new HTF7350 engine to power Bombardier Challenger 350
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 21 May , 2013
Honeywell has announced that its HTF7350, the latest engine to join its successful HTF7000 series, will power Bombardier’s new Challenger 350* supermidsize business jet. In addition to the...
Solution to J & K problem lies in New Delhi...
By: Lt Gen NS Malik | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 18 May , 2013
J&K is an integral part of India. The only problem that can be called J&K Problem is the non- comprehension by India, its people and the government to this ultimate truth of its being the...
China’s Foreign Policy: Biang Biang Noodles!
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 17 May , 2013
Tavleen Singh narrates in her book ‘Durbar’ that having personally witnessed grisly scenes of children dying of starvation in presence of their hapless parents themselves surviving on grass...
India-China: Border Defence Cooperation Agreement
By: Brig Pillalmarri Subramanyam | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 16 May , 2013
The events of the past week and half are gradually clearing the fog over why China did what she did at DBO on 15th April 2013. Though a surfeit of motives were assigned, a careful review of the...
Aggressive Chinese designs and India's utter timidity...
By: Maj Gen Mrinal Suman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 14 May , 2013
External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid, after holding talks with his counterpart Wang Yi in Beijing on 09 May 2013, told reporters that there was still no clarity on the reasons behind the...
New Jihadi Magazine in English focuses on South Asia, Including Afghanistan...
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 07 May , 2013
SITE, an Internet monitoring group, has drawn attention to a new web-based jihadi magazine in English called “Azan”. According to SITE, the magazine is believed to have been started by...
Gilgit Baltistan National Congress held event in Baltimore, Maryland
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 06 May , 2013
Gilgit Baltistan National Congress held an event in Baltimore, Maryland. Senge Sering, Director of Gilgit Baltistan National Congress, moderated the event. Abdul Hamid Khan, Chairperson of...
DBO: India’s Response and Defence Preparedness
By: Brig Pillalmarri Subramanyam | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 04 May , 2013
The Chinese intrusion into the area of Daulat Beg Oldi (DBO) on 15th April 2013, reportedly about 15 to 18 KMs South of the Line of Actual Control (LAC), once again brought into public debate the...
Illiteracy of War Drums
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 02 May , 2013
In a recent TV debate on the Chinese intrusion in Ladakh, to a suggestion by a veteran Army General that India should be resolute in response, a Member Parliament from the ruling party said,...
Indian Prisoner in Pakistan discovered in Oman Jail
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 02 May , 2013
An eyewitness Sukhdev Singh claims Prisoner of 1971 War Sep Jaspal Singh of Punjab Regiment is still alive in OMAN (Masira Island, jail). It appears that Pakistan had shifted all POWs to...
China pre-empts India’s possible use of the Gilgit-Baltistan card
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 May , 2013
In an article in rediff.com of December 20, 2010, I had stated as follows: “China, which had never openly questioned the Indian estimate of the length of the common border before, is now...
AW169 Helicopter assembly aine to be established at Philadelphia
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 May , 2013
AgustaWestland, a Finmeccanica company, is pleased to announce that a final assembly line for the new generation AW169 helicopter will be established at its AgustaWestland Philadelphia facility...
India-China stand-off: Sun Tzu in action
By: Col R Hariharan | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 30 Apr , 2013
Merely by sending a platoon of their troops to camp 19 km (upgraded after 10 days from 10 km reported earlier) inside our territory on February 15 near Daulat Beg Oldi (DBO) along the Line of...
China Mocking Pussy Footers
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 29 Apr , 2013
In law, treason is the crime that covers some of the more extreme acts against one’s sovereignty or nation. A person who commits treason is known in law as a traitor. By another...
Russia ready to negotiate with India on MiG-35 fighters
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 25 Apr , 2013
Russia is keen that India buys its MiG-35 fighter aircraft, a top Russian official said. The Russian Aircraft Corporation MiG (RAC MiG) has proposed to India to consider the possibility of...
Chinese Incursion in Ladakh exposes Indian Army war machinery's (Un)...
By: Col (Dr) PK Vasudeva | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 24 Apr , 2013
Surprisingly, in a deep incursion, Chinese troops have entered the Indian Territory in Daulat Beg Oldi (DBO) sector in eastern Ladakh and erected a tented post without digging any trenches,...
China: Hum Dekh Rahe Hain – We Are Watching!
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 24 Apr , 2013
Commenting on the latest Chinese intrusion in Ladakh, Foreign Minister Salman Khurshid echoed former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi’s famous cliché “Hum Dekh Rahen Hain, Hamen Dekhna Hoga, Hum...