IDR Updates
Mr. Li and the Three Idiots
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 30 May , 2013
Li came, Li saw (the Indian confusion) and Li won. It was not difficult. He spoke of the Three Idiots, a film that his daughter ‘forced’ him to see, and the Indian establishment (and media)...
India’s China Syndrome
By: Kanwal Sibal | Issue: Courtesy: Mail Today | Date: 29 May , 2013
India-China relations are complex enough not to be seen in black and white terms. Amidst all the good reasons for India to mistrust China and deal with it as an adversary, it makes sense to work...
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...
Police cannot take on Maoists
By: VK Shashikumar | Issue: Vol 25.4 Oct-Dec 2010 | Date: 25 May , 2013
The latest flash-point between The People’s Liberation Guerrilla Army or naxals in the Lakhisarai forests of Bihar is a tell-tale indicator of the state of preparedness of the Indian police...
Tackling Maoists : the Andhra paradigm
By: Col JK Achuthan (Retd.) | Issue: Vol 25.2 Apr-Jun 2010 | Date: 25 May , 2013
“The armed Threat from within is more dangerous than any external Threats.” -Leon Trotsky Introduction Today the greatest danger to India’s independence and flourishing democracy is the...
Spreading Naxalism – Napping Government
By: PV Ramana | Issue: Vol 22.1 Jan - Mar 2007 | Date: 24 May , 2013
Naxalites owing allegiance to the Communist Party of India (Maoist) have been waging a bloody insurrection against the Indian state with the ultimate objective of capturing political power...
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...
Bowing down to the dragon
By: Kanwal Sibal | Issue: Courtesy: Mail Today | Date: 14 May , 2013
Our statements on the recent India-China face-off in Ladakh continue to confound. One would have thought that we would have analysed the incident in depth, tried to figure out China’s...
Inter-Services Synergy: need of the hour
By: Cmde Ranjit B Rai | Issue: Vol. 28.1 Jan-Mar 2013 | Date: 11 May , 2013
The Indian Armed Forces have 13 geographically separated commands, five each for the Army and Air Force and three for the Navy and one joint command for the Andaman Nicobar Islands. The A&N, the...
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...
More intrusions in Indian Territory by China to follow…
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 03 May , 2013
The Defence Secretary has reportedly informed the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Defence that the Chinese intrusion at Daulat Beg Oldi (DBO) in Ladakh region is actually 19 kilometers deep...
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...