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India needs about 200-250 Rafales for edge: Raha
29 Dec 2016 12:16 AM GMTIn his farewell press conference Air Chief Marshall (ACM) Arup Raha said that the IAF will need 200 more aircrafts in the medium category, besides the...
Making a capricious decision?
22 Dec 2016 9:32 PM GMTThe announcement of the new Chief of Army Staff (1.3 million strong – the world’s third largest army) is crying shame. It also shows how much of an...
Still a long shot away
9 Dec 2016 8:58 PM GMTWe all know now that Prime Minister Narendra Modi is merely is just another reformer, not a revolutionary. But one should keep in mind that his...
Navy’s main concern is Indian Ocean Region: Lanba
3 Dec 2016 10:49 PM GMTIndo-Pacific is not region of top priority to the Indian Navy. Its main concern is the Indian Ocean Region. Admiral Sunil Lanba, the chief of naval...
Is it truly a path breaker?
25 Nov 2016 9:55 PM GMTIndian opposition parties are really shooting the breeze. They did not expect that Prime Minister Narendra Modi would go against his party’s core...
Shifting the paradigm
10 Nov 2016 10:10 PM GMTWe all know Narendra Modi as a man driven by ambition. He has a fire burning in his stomach – who gets incinerated in that fire, but that is a...
Nepal to host Int’l Military Helicopter Conference in Jan
1 Nov 2016 12:27 AM GMTNepal will be hosting an International Military Helicopter Conference, come January next. Rather tellingly, Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL) will not...
Flogging a dead horse?
27 Oct 2016 7:37 PM GMTSpin, counter-spin, and shaping the news environment are not necessarily the hallmark of excellent diplomatic skills. For State-to-State interactions...
Beijing looks forward to mutually beneficial relationship with India
21 Oct 2016 11:11 PM GMTIn a bilateral meeting –on the sidelines of the BRICS summit –between China’s president Xi Jinping and Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the former told...
Is there a sense of finality that after the military and diplomatic setbacks, the Kashmir issue will be resolved?
13 Oct 2016 10:07 PM GMTEven as a full-blown war of words has begun between the opposition parties - the Congress and the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) - about the nature of the...
India’s strategic paradigm shift
30 Sep 2016 12:58 AM GMTThe DGMO Lt Gen Ranbir Singh, was laconic like a good prosecutor in a court of law. In a 6-point statement – neither he nor the ministry of external...
What pins India down?
28 Sep 2016 10:25 PM GMTDuring the Vietnam War, the analysts of the US department of defence had come up with a concept that was clearly off the wall. In that asymmetric war,...