Russia falters, Indian navy might turn to US
14 Dec 2012 6:26 AM ISTIn the wake of the last delay report about completion of work on the Russian aircraft cruiser-turned-carrier Admiral Gorshkov or INS Vikramaditya,...
Retail therapy won’t work for them
10 Dec 2012 9:05 AM ISTThanksgiving is a typically American tradition. Ostensibly, the day is celebrated as a day of feasting. As the lore goes, the original inhabitants...
IAF reduces demand for two-seater FGFAs
27 Nov 2012 6:17 AM ISTIndian Air Force (IAF) may have brought down the number of two-seater fifth generation fighter aircraft (FGFA) to be built jointly with Russia....
Primer for a new political party
27 Nov 2012 3:36 AM ISTArvind Kejriwal, Prashant Bhushan and co. now have a name for their political party. They also have a platform: anti-corruption. This piece of writing...
Life in pakistan
24 Nov 2012 5:30 AM ISTLt Col Anil Bhat is a prolific writer on military and strategic affairs. He is also an itinerant seminarian, who stays acutely in touch with all the...
China pins hope on Jinping
17 Nov 2012 8:07 AM ISTThe Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) 18th Congress ended on Thursday as the new general secretary, Xi Jinping, walked into the Great Hall of the People...
Do it like the Chinese!
12 Nov 2012 7:44 AM ISTA key element of the ongoing 18th Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Congress is the onus put on financial corruption at the five-yearly apex...
Tejas still under fire, DRDO in the dock
10 Nov 2012 8:52 AM ISTIndian Air Force (IAF) is still grimly determined not to accept the indigenous light combat aircraft, Tejas, in the current shape it is in. A senior...
Game, set, play!
10 Nov 2012 5:30 AM ISTIn the past three-odd decades, Bertil Lintner has dominated the discourse in south east Asian nations, besides of course, Burma, his home base....
‘VVIP helicopter specs changed by then Def Min’
2 Nov 2012 5:36 AM ISTOnly the defence minister in 2006 could have changed the air staff qualitative requirement (ASQR) of the 12 VVIP helicopters, after it was found that...
Data leakage and stocks
30 Oct 2012 4:06 AM ISTThis Diwali, Mukesh Ambani will like you to be in mourning. Why, you may ask? This is not a season of Dhirubhai’s departure to the happy hunting...
Selling lemon to the people
16 Oct 2012 3:21 AM ISTThis is the story of an American giant corporate that is in the insurance business. In 2008, one day in September, the bond s and other credit...
