Ajey Lele
A major flaw in India’s anti-terror mechanism is the lack of intelligent investments in counter-terror technology.
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
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
In the ’50s, Chairman Mao Zedong complained that China could not even shoot a potato into space. Hu Jintao’s China...
India and China demonstrated extraordinary cooperation at the recently concluded Bali...
Lunar expeditions have now become high-stake missions and India is limbering up to join in.
The earth’s first artificial satellite, Sputnik, was launched by the Soviet Union on October 4, 1957. Over the last 50 years...
The ISRO has had it share of failed programmes. But what is important to note is that the organisation is a quick learner...
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 northw
21st-century threats are essentially non-military. National security can be challenged by global warming
When the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam launched an air assault on a Sri Lankan military base close to Colombo on March 26
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 ce
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.
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.
For India, navigating with the Russians pays dividends
