Articles in Net Edition
Oslo: China coming to terms with reality
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 10 Dec , 2010
After having waged a high-pressure campaign to enforce a boycott of the Oslo function on December 10 to honour in absentia Liu Xiaobo, the Chinese human rights activist who has been awarded the...
An emotional farewel to INS Vagli
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 10 Dec , 2010
The Indian Navy decommissioned one of her oldest units, INS Vagli in a solemn ceremony at the Naval Dockyard today, 09 Dec 10. The Commissioning Commanding Officer of INS Vagli, Captain (Retd)...
More C-130Js for India
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 10 Dec , 2010
India’s next three C-130Js have now reached the final production positions at the Lockheed Martin Marietta facility. These aircraft will join the previous three, which are already in flight...
Navy Officers Cadets complete training
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 10 Dec , 2010
169 Officer Cadets of the Indian Navy including 32 Assistant Commandants of Indian Coast Guard successfully completed their afloat training onboard the First Training Squadron today, at Kochi....
IM warns attacks on Hindu holy places
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 09 Dec , 2010
The message dated December 6, 2010, purporting to be from the Indian Mujahideen (IM) indirectly claiming responsibility for the explosion in Varanasi on December 7, 2010, was received by the...
New Delhi must regularly interact with Dalai Lama
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 09 Dec , 2010
The Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh, needs to be complimented for standing firm to China and refusing to be bullied by it into not attending the Oslo function on December 10, 2010, in honour...
A major milestone for Eurocopter's X3 hybrid helicopter
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 09 Dec , 2010
Step 1 speed objective of 180 kts is attained ahead of schedule for this innovative rotary-wing aircraft. Eurocopter’s X3 high-speed hybrid helicopter demonstrator, which performed its maiden...
DCNS Chairman visits Mazagon Docks
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 08 Dec , 2010
The visit of President Sarkozy gives an opportunity to reaffirm the close and dynamic ties existing between the Indian industries and the DCNS Group. The visit of President Sarkozy gives an...
Boeing team begins building Indian Navy's 1st P-8I aircraft
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 08 Dec , 2010
The Boeing P-8I team began fabricating the first part for the Indian navy’s first long-range maritime reconnaissance and anti-submarine warfare aircraft on Dec. 6 in Wichita. The P-8I, based on...
DST-Lockheed Martin India Innovation Growth Programme crosses 100-deal mark
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 08 Dec , 2010
The DST-Lockheed Martin India Innovation Growth Programme achieved a major milestone today by crossing the 100-deal mark of commercialization agreements signed by the winners of this unique...
The myths exposed by Wikileaks
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 07 Dec , 2010
The confidential cables exchanged between the US State Department and the US diplomatic missions abroad, which have been released by WikiLeaks, expose the following five myths: Firstly, the myth...
WikiLeaks and Indian secrets
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 07 Dec , 2010
We live in the WikiLeaks era when no official document is considered too secret to be put out in the public domain by whistleblowers. It’s only a matter of time before India’s archive of...
PUMA-infantry fighting vehicle: sets the new standard
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 07 Dec , 2010
Krauss-Maffei Wegmann (KMW) and Rheinmetall handed over on December 6th in time the first two PUMA infantry fighting vehicles to the Federal Office of Defense Technology and Procurement (BWB) in...
Boeing Receives US Army Contract for Tactical Intelligence Aircraft
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 07 Dec , 2010
Boeing announced that it has received a two-year engineering and manufacturing development contract for the Enhanced Medium Altitude Reconnaissance and Surveillance System (EMARSS) from the U.S....
MBDA delivers 600th Taurus KEPD 350 to German Luftwaffe
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 07 Dec , 2010
TAURUS System GmbH (TSG), a subsidiary of LFK-Lenkflugkörpersysteme GmbH (MBDA Deutschland) and Saab Dynamics, has delivered the 600th missile to the German Federal Office of Defence Technology...
AgustaWestland Holds the First AW109 LUH/LOH Operators Conference
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 07 Dec , 2010
AgustaWestland, a Finmeccanica company, is pleased to announce that over 40 delegates attended the first AgustaWestland AW109 LUH/LOH Operators Conference recently held at AgustaWestland’s...
Zardari in Sri Lanka: Counter-Balancing India
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 06 Dec , 2010
President Asif Ali Zardari of Pakistan visited Sri Lanka from November 27 to 30, 2010, at the invitation of President Mahinda Rajapaksa. Among those who accompanied him were Shah Mehmood...
Time to stop appeasing China
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 05 Dec , 2010
The Government of India has not yet indicated its response to the reported pressure from the Chinese Government to boycott the Nobel Peace Prize Award function proposed to be held at Oslo on...
The internal political situation in China
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 04 Dec , 2010
An editorial published on October 15, 2010, by the Communist Party controlled “Global Times” said:“China has changed a lot. In the future it will continue to adopt gradualism to bring about...
WikiLeaks and India
By: Prakash Nanda | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 Dec , 2010
WikiLeaks has done it again. The whistle-blowing website has just published hundreds of thousands of confidential State Department cables. These communications apparently reveal the details of...