Ready for lift-off

Friday 30 October '09

India should catch up in providing satellites to ASEAN countries

Turning success into failure

Tuesday 1 September '09

India’s much-publicised moon mission came to an abrupt end on August 29 when we lost radio contact with Chandrayaan-1.

The hacker state

Tuesday 14 July '09

Defiant North Korea appears to feel like demonstrating its military wherewithal. After successfully...

The other great game

Friday 19 June '09

There has been much debate in the past regarding India’s unwillingness to use air power when it fought its war with China in 1962.

Separate and equal

Tuesday 21 April '09

What lies behind official evasions over India’s satellite launch

Waiting, watching Kim

Tuesday 7 April '09

The North Korean missile test reveals India’s diplomatic compulsions

The Gaza lab

Thursday 22 January '09

Israel’s Gaza strategy was old, but its weapons are new

Terror 2.0

Thursday 4 December '08

A major flaw in India’s anti-terror mechanism is the lack of intelligent investments in counter-terror technology.

Moon’s pull

Wednesday 19 November '08

ISRO spends only 15 per cent on missions such as Chandrayaan. Given that, criticism that it is wasting money on such projects is hard to justify

After Karwa Chauth

Wednesday 22 October '08

The state is now looking beyond Sarabhai’s plan. Exploring planets needs to be viewed not as a policy shift, but as a natural progression

The final McMahon Line

Tuesday 30 September '08

In the ’50s, Chairman Mao Zedong complained that China could not even shoot a potato into space. Hu Jintao’s China...

The weather god across the border

Friday 21 December '07

India and China demonstrated extraordinary cooperation at the recently concluded Bali...

A piece of the moon

Saturday 24 November '07

Lunar expeditions have now become high-stake missions and India is limbering up to join in.

Remember the Sputnik?

Thursday 4 October '07

The earth’s first artificial satellite, Sputnik, was launched by the Soviet Union on October 4, 1957. Over the last 50 years...

Watch this space. A boom is on

Saturday 1 September '07

The ISRO has had it share of failed programmes. But what is important to note is that the organisation is a quick learner...

Nuclear fall-out of natural disasters

Thursday 19 July '07

Whereas the loss of human life has not been significant in the recent earthquake in Japan, which was centred off the coast of Niigata 160 miles northwest of Tokyo...

Future shock: the environment

Wednesday 13 June '07

21st-century threats are essentially non-military. National security can be challenged by global warming

Is LTTE thinking of an aerospace force?

Monday 14 May '07

When the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam launched an air assault on a Sri Lankan military base close to Colombo on March 26

Defence budget: untouched by reforms

Friday 2 March '07

India has the fourth largest military in the world. Yet despite this, Indian defence spending over the years has been in the the region of 2.5 per cent of GDP; and this year was no different.

Watch this Indo-Russia space

Tuesday 30 January '07

It was the issue of Indo-Russian collaboration on nuclear energy that got most of the news attention during Russian President Putin’s visit last week.

Over the moon

Thursday 11 May '06

While some uncertainty continues to dog the future of the Indo-US nuclear deal, the Indo-US space agreement does not suffer from similar constraints.

Eyes in the skies

Tuesday 21 March '06

For India, navigating with the Russians pays dividends