Articles in Net Edition
Netizen support for Osama bin Laden in China
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 11 May , 2011
The Chinese authorities seem to be concerned over the admiration for Osama bin Laden as an “anti-US warrior” that seems to prevail among some sections of its growing community of netizens...
SELEX Galileo foresees strategic opportunities within the Turkish market
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 11 May , 2011
SELEX Galileo, a Finmeccanica Company, has been working with Turkey for decades, establishing strong industrial links with a number of local industries. SELEX Galileo is primarily working with...
Can Pakistan unilaterally renounce US assistance?
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 11 May , 2011
Can Pakistan unilaterally renounce US assistance in protest against the violation of its sovereignty by the US naval commandos who raided Osama bin Laden’s house at Abbottabad on the night of...
Ten thousand Chinese teachers for India from Taiwan?
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 11 May , 2011
Ten thousand Chinese teachers for India: that’s good news. In the years to come, it will be more and more important to know Chinese, whether the rise of China is peaceful or not. The initiative...
Al Queda intends to nuke heart of Christianity - The Vatican?
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 10 May , 2011
In the aftermath of operation Geronimo , that killed Osama Bin Laden, leaders around the world are expecting some kind of retaliation from Al Queda. In the last week on April ‘ 2011, Wikileaks...
Did General Kayani and Pasha give shelter to Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad?
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 08 May , 2011
Gen.Ashfaq Pervez Kayani, the present Chief of the Army Staff (COAS), Gen.Nadeem Taj, who retired recently, and Lt.Gen. Ahmed ShujaPasha, who is on an year’s extension after having...
Indian Navy Rescues Chinese Merchant Ship from Pirates
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 06 May , 2011
On the morning of 05 May an Indian Navy’s TU 142 aircraft’s persistant efforts lead to pirates evacuating a Chinese merchant vessel MV Full City. At about 0845 hrs on 05 May 11, the Indian Navy...
Sikorsky recognizes Indian sub continent as a potential aerospace market
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 05 May , 2011
Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation, a United Technologies company and the largest helicopter manufacturer of the world reiterates its commitment to the Indian market and recognizes the aerospace...
Laden and Ladenism
By: Prakash Nanda | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 05 May , 2011
Osama Bin Laden has been killed by the Americans, though many Pakistanis and Arabs do not believe so in the absence of such “hard evidence” as displaying his dead body or the burying ritual....
Successful firing test of AASM with laser terminal guidance
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 04 May , 2011
French defense procurement agency DGA successfully performed a demonstration firing test of the AASM modular air-to-ground weapon against a land target moving at high speed. The test was carried...
Bin Laden's reported death in Islamabad
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 02 May , 2011
In connection with news that Osama bin Laden has been killed in a missile strike—possibly in or near Islamabad— I am reproducing below an article written on June 28, 2010, on the hunt for...
President Obama declares Osama Bin Laden dead
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 02 May , 2011
President Obama: Good evening. Tonight, I can report to the American people and to the world that the United States has conducted an operation that killed Osama bin Laden, the leader of al...
Chinese media coverage of chopper in Arunachal
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 May , 2011
An M-17 helicopter of the Indian Air Force (IAF) crashed near Tawang in India’s Arunachal Pradesh on November 19,2010, killing all the 12 persons—11 from the Indian Air Force including the two...
Israel acquires additional Lockheed Martin C-130J Super Hercules
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 29 Apr , 2011
Lockheed Martin has received an Undefinitized Contract Action from the U.S. Government for the Foreign Military Sale of an additional C‑130J to Israel, with funding for advanced procurement...
US Ambassador: Our cooperation has taken off
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 29 Apr , 2011
Ambassador Timothy J. Roemer while addressing AMCHAM Annual General Meeting at New Delhi said: We have had many big events this year and it seemed that Amcham was involved in most of them. From...
AgustaWestland competes for US Air Force Programs
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 28 Apr , 2011
AW139M and HH-71 offers lowest cost and optimal performance for the missions AgustaWestland North America, an AgustaWestland company, is pleased that the U.S. Air Force has announced it is...
Incriminating spotlight on ISI in the US
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 28 Apr , 2011
Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) Directorate has come under incriminating spotlight in the US as a result of the ongoing judicial proceedings in a Chicago court against Tahawwur...
US Ambassador comments on Indian Defense Procurement
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 28 Apr , 2011
The U.S. Embassy in New Delhi was informed yesterday that two aircraft offered by the U.S. Government through the Foreign Military Sales process were not selected for procurement by the Indian...
Boeing Statement on India's MMRCA Decision
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 28 Apr , 2011
Boeing released the following statement on the government of India’s Medium Multi-Role Combat Aircraft (MMRCA) decision: “Boeing today was notified that our Super Hornet proposal for India’s...
Insurgencies & Terrorism in India
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 27 Apr , 2011
India has been confronted with periodic eruptions of insurgencies and terrorism in different parts of the country since it became independent. These have had different causes—- feelings of...