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MOD gets 22 choppers, doesn’t explain purpose
18 Sept 2012 7:07 AM ISTMinistry of Defence has not even begun the process of acquiring 22 Apache Longbow helicopters from the US transnational, Boeing. However,...
India, China ‘peace’ deal belongs to future
5 Sept 2012 6:53 AM ISTIndia and China decided on Tuesday to 'work together to maintain peace and stability in the Asia-Pacific region'. Srikant Kondapalli, one of the few...
A prime minister in purdah
4 Sept 2012 3:34 AM ISTThe pusillanimity of the current political leadership was much in evidence this fortnight. First, let’s take on the Bharatiya Janata Party [BJP]. They...
How Air Force covered Su-30 crash spots
3 Sept 2012 6:32 AM ISTFor those who have been shedding copious tears about the apparent misfortune to befall the Indian Air Force because of their frontline heavy fighter...
Advanced aircraft gives HAL a reason to party
25 Aug 2012 8:03 AM ISTA party broke out on Tuesday evening yesterday at about 10:10 PM at the Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd airport in Bangalore. The first indigenous Advanced...
What ails Indian army?
22 Aug 2012 7:21 AM ISTGet this. There is very little inherited, economic class division in the Indian Army between the officers and the men. But there is a scholastic class...
Democracy in deep crisis
20 Aug 2012 6:24 AM ISTThis is a party adrift, and has been for the whole first decade of the new millennium. The party does not have any single face that could be...
Incompetence and howlers
9 Aug 2012 9:27 AM ISTThe Naresh Chandra-led ‘Task Force’ on National Security’s report on the strategic review of the Indian defence posture could have been written by an...
Remembering a war that's best forgotten
7 Aug 2012 8:08 AM ISTAt a time when the Indian Air Force is in a swirl of activity with ongoing upgrades of old aircrafts or closing towards the induction of the...
Is Taliban enjoying Indian-made Afghan road?
30 July 2012 4:58 PM ISTThe strategic intent with which India had sought to build the Zaranj-Delaram road in Afghanistan, connecting with Herat-Kandahar highway has been...
US to reorient arms sales policy by the DPP
24 July 2012 6:52 AM ISTNot many in the ministry of defence know who had thought up the idea how a defence commercial relationship between India and any other entity would be...
India commissions third stealth frigate
23 July 2012 6:55 AM ISTThe country’s third stealth frigate was commissioned to the Indian Navy on Saturday. As the commissioning captain of the INS Sahyadri Sanjay Vatsyayan...