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India need not choose between US, China: Hagel
11 Aug 2014 4:25 AM ISTAs the Americans would say, they are ‘sizing up’ Narendra Modi and his Cabinet members. That is the impression that the US secretary of defence,...
Hagel discusses Indo-US defence ties in Delhi
10 Aug 2014 5:16 AM ISTUS secretary of defence, Charles Hagel had told the international media before arriving here for his round of meetings that he was visiting India to...
Uncertainty prevails over PM Modi’s Siachen visit
8 Aug 2014 6:01 AM ISTPrime minister, Narendra Modi may not visit Siachen glacier just yet, as talks about it were wafting in and out in the defence circles for the past...
Modi and the working class
5 Aug 2014 2:52 AM ISTThe western ‘developed’ – the parenthesis of developed is on account of their increasing poverty of these nations – watched India at a moment of truth...
10 DRDO projects get delayed, defence minister explains why
28 July 2014 6:12 AM ISTThe list includes the two light combat aircraft (LCA) – the air force and the naval variants – the aero engine Kaveri, Airborne Early Warning System...
Kargil war hero says he was relieved after ‘court of inquiry’ which was never constituted
27 July 2014 5:07 AM ISTRetired brigadier, Surinder Singh, who commanded the Kargil Brigade (121 Brigade), is the latest addition to the pantheon of mid-rung army officers,...
India first in Modi parlance
22 July 2014 2:33 AM ISTJawaharlal Nehru wrote Discovery of India over four years – 1942 to 1946 – while being interred at the Ahmednagar Fort jail, after the launch of the...
Govt brings in pvt sector in defence production
21 July 2014 5:09 AM ISTIf the early signs of a regime give a measure of its thinking, then Narendra Modi’s defence ministry has clearly laid down a path for the country to...
Navy, DRDO headed for a tug of war over Kaveri engine
19 July 2014 3:15 AM ISTThe Navy wants a few of these engines to be provided to them to power some of their smaller ships. The engine – primarily an aeronautical one — has...
Indian Navy ships weather typhoon, reach Russia
17 July 2014 5:36 AM ISTShips of the Russian Pacific Fleet will also be exercising with the Indian ships The flotilla is being led by Rear Admiral Atul Kumar Jain, Flag...
Long delay, high cost mar IAF’s fascination with Rafale
11 July 2014 3:35 AM ISTThe price negotiations for the 126 medium, multirole combat aircraft (MMRCA) – Rafale in this case of IAF – will begin sometime this month itself. But...
Father, State and unholy ghosts
8 July 2014 2:29 AM ISTThat a large part of the USA is suffused with Christian fundamentalism, is no longer an idea that is such a hard sell anymore. In any case for decades...