‘DRDO has ready and deployable ballistic missile defence system’
9 May 2014 12:05 AMDefence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has a ready and deployable ballistic missile defence (BMD) system, sources in the organisation...
‘INS Vikramaditya is operationally deployed’
8 May 2014 11:39 PMIndia’s largest warship – aircraft carrier INS Vikramaditya, is ‘operationally deployed, along with its fleet of MiG 29K combat aircraft, Navy chief...
Aide You Like It
4 May 2014 8:14 PMThe reviewers (the ones I have read!) of Sanjaya Baru’s offering The Accidental Prime Minister: The Making and Unmaking of Manmohan Singh have made,...
Shrill showstoppers of BJP
28 April 2014 12:14 AMThe screeching has become shriller. The subtle communications of coded anti-Muslim rhetoric yielding space to blatant raging against the minorities –...
Shrill showstoppers of BJP
27 April 2014 6:06 PMThe screeching has become shriller. The subtle communications of coded anti-Muslim rhetoric yielding space to blatant raging against the minorities –...
MiG-29 engines: HAL blames Russian company for delay in handing over R&D technology
23 April 2014 12:16 AMIn obvious exchanges with Russia’s giant aerospace conglomerate, United Aircrafts Corporation (UAC), Hindustan Aeronautics (HAL) had been expressing...
Army chief’s appointment issue stirs the pot again
21 April 2014 12:30 AMSuccession struggles for who will become a head of the 1.3 million-strong Indian Army is becoming as vicious as that of the Indo-Pak tussle on the...
Design work of Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicle ‘Aura’ accomplished
15 April 2014 12:27 AMOne of the early tasks of a new government that would be formed in the second half of next May will be to give a ‘go-ahead’ to India’s own Unmanned...
Fictions of foregone conclusions
14 April 2014 12:25 AMFiction 1: The prime minister of the country has been chosen.The ministerial portfolios have been allocated, with one mass circulated ‘national’ daily...
HAL report finds sporadic ‘blank-outs’ of avionics gear in Su-30 fighter planes
14 April 2014 12:21 AMHindustan Aeronautics (HAL) says that the reports about sporadic ‘blank-outs’ of avionics gear including head-up displays (HUD) of Su-30 MKI...
Russia gives ‘documentations’ for Sukhoi-30 overhaul
12 April 2014 12:03 AMRussian manufacturers of Sukhoi-30 MKI, Indian Air Force’s top line heavy fighter, have finally handed over the ‘documentations’ for repair and...
All eyes on Afghan prez polls
2 April 2014 12:58 AMEven though the former Ahmad Shah Massoud protégé, Abdullah Abdullah, of mixed Tajik and Pushtun descent looms large over the presidential ballot in...
