IDR Updates
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...
Boeing-built GPS Operational Control Segment Enters Service with US Air Force
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 26 Apr , 2011
Boeing today announced that its GPS Operational Control Segment (OCS) has gained full operational status with the U.S. Air Force 50th Space Wing, Schriever Air Force Base, Colo. OCS keeps the...
Pak gimmicks deprive Baloch of a real solution
By: Nidhi Bhardwaj | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 26 Apr , 2011
In what is being portrayed as yet another attempt by the Pakistani government to appease Balochistan, Pakistan’s Chief of Army Staff General Parvez Ashfaq Kayani has announced to replace...
Suppression of monks in Sichuan
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 25 Apr , 2011
Reports received from the Sichuan province of China speak of the arrest of about 300 Buddhist monks belonging to the Kirti monastery in the Ngaba Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of the province...
DCNS begins sea trials of first-of-class FREMM frigate Aquitaine
By: IDR News Network | Date: 25 Apr , 2011
One month early, DCNS begins the sea trials of the Aquitaine, the first ship built under the FREMM multimission frigate programme. The campaign takes place off the Brittany peninsula and is...
US and Indian Law Enforcement officials build partnership
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 25 Apr , 2011
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), in partnership with the Indian Ministry of Home Affairs, on April 22 concluded a five-day Law Enforcement Executive Development Seminar focusing...
Pakistan Armed Forces: The Other Pillar
By: Anand K Verma | Issue: Book Excerpt: Reassessing Pakistan | Date: 25 Apr , 2011
The Muslim League whose campaign led to the birth of Pakistan could hardly be called a grass roots party until after 1940 when the Pakistan Resolution was adopted. The League might have operated...
Worsening Violence in Syria
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 23 Apr , 2011
” Good Friday” on April 22,2011, saw violent protests against the rule of President Bashar al-Assad all over Syria. For the first time since the protest movement started in the southern city...
‘Pak army wants Imran as next PM’
By: Tejas Patel | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 22 Apr , 2011
The man who led the 1992 World Cup winning Pakistan cricket team, Imran Khan, is the choice of the Pakistan military establishment to take over as the next prime minister of the country. ...
China uses bloggers to announce J-20 Stealth progress
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 22 Apr , 2011
China has once again used its bloggers—possibly belonging to the People’s Liberation Army (PLA)—to indicate to the world in general and to the US in particular that it successfully carried out...
Boeing, US Navy mark delivery of 500th Super Hornet
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 22 Apr , 2011
All aircraft delivered on budget and ahead of schedule F/A-18E/F and EA-18G will operate through 2035 and beyond Boeing and the U.S. Navy celebrated a milestone delivery on April 20 in St....
Waziristan: Fedayeen-e-Islam Training 1000 suicide bombers
By: Nidhi Bhardwaj | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 22 Apr , 2011
A fourteen year old boy, a suicide bomber in the making was captured after he failed to detonate his vest in an attack at the Sakhi Sarwar shrine in the district of Dera Ghazi Khan in Punjab...
Was INSAT-4B victim of malicious malware Stuxnet?
By: Tejas Patel | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 21 Apr , 2011
The Ministry of Communications & Information Technology recently said that all the ministries/departments of the Union and state governments are implementing a crisis management plan to counter...
Sympathy grows for LTTE internationally
By: Nidhi Bhardwaj | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 21 Apr , 2011
A United Nations report leaked recently, estimates thousands of civilians were killed during the fighting between Sri Lankan forces and the LTTE – known as the Tamil Tigers in 2009. The...
ISI’s Strategic Blackmail
By: Nidhi Bhardwaj | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 20 Apr , 2011
Taking advantage of the political controversy in Pakistan over the Raymond Allen Davis case, the ISI has strategically capped intelligence cooperation with and operations by the CIA. Davis, a...
An Ocean of Instability
By: Tejas Patel | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 20 Apr , 2011
The recent reports of the presence of Chinese troops in the Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (PoK) have set the alarm bells ringing in New Delhi. Despite its neutrality on the Kashmir issue, Beijing is...
China leads Great Game in Afghanistan
By: Tejas Patel | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 19 Apr , 2011
Almost 10 years back, Taliban destroyed statues of Buddha in Afghanistan’s Bamyan province and now around 1000 workers are working hard to excavate artifacts at another Buddhist site in the...
Boeing Ready to Deliver 787 Pilot Training on Global Scale
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 19 Apr , 2011
Boeing has achieved multiple qualifications for its worldwide network of 787 training campuses. The qualifications mean Boeing Flight Services has training devices that are ready to be used with...
EADS conducts flight demonstrations of its Armed Aerial Scout 72X
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 19 Apr , 2011
EADS North America is conducting flight demonstrations of its company-funded Armed Aerial Scout 72X (AAS-72X) helicopter at the Nashville International Airport this week to coincide with a...
DCNS begins sea trials of first-of-class FREMM frigate Aquitaine
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 19 Apr , 2011
One month early, DCNS begins the sea trials of the Aquitaine, the first ship built under the FREMM multimission frigate programme. The campaign takes place off the Brittany peninsula and is...