Saturday 20 January '07
With the country’s military space programme still squarely on the drawing board and plans for a dedicated Aerospace Command in limboSaturday 20 January '07
Building weapons for India cannot be the preserve of a Cold War era state industrial complex. DRDO must institutionalise more transparency. The new monitoring committee promises long overdue changeFriday
19 January '07Rejecting the Defence Research & Development Organisation’s assertion that its internal workings are adequately monitoredThursday
18 January '07Defence Minister A K Antony, who insisted that he wanted Siachen to be his first destination after taking office last October, will get his chance in May.Saturday
13 January '07Although two Army brigades were ordered to mount an all-out offensive against the ULFA in Upper Assam, Army Chief General JJ Singh emphasised on Friday that there can never be a time when the force can task itself with finishing off the ULFA entirely.Thursday
11 January '07“The Earth is a beautiful planet. It’s hard to imagine anyone’s arguing down there. It really is.”Thursday
11 January '07Multirole Transport Aircraft pact, the second big military joint development programme since BrahMos, ready to be signedWednesday
10 January '07National security is no longer the only reason why the Army wants to remain outside the purview of Right to Information Act.Saturday
6 January '07In the next three months, the Navy will ask the Cabinet to clear the second phase of construction of its most ambitious military base—Karwar.Saturday
6 January '07On the day Defence Minister AK Antony spent a day and night out at sea with the Navy on board its flagship INS Viraat, its sole aircraft carrierWednesday
3 January '07As Legal rights of the army personnel remained in debate — are they answerable to civilian or military law?Sunday
31 December '06When we arrived in Iraq, it was the day he took over as President. We saw 16 people being hanged on that day in the Central Square.Friday
29 December '06The director of the Defence Research & Development Organisation wears too many hats, DRDO should focus on fundamental research...Friday
29 December '06A few days after ace pilots Wing Commander Dheeraj “Dicky” Bhatia, 35, and Squadron Leader Shailendra Singh...Thursday
28 December '06Faced with a pronounced increase in threat from regrouping Taliban forces, the Border Roads Organisation (BRO) today briefed Defence MinisterThursday
28 December '06The Defence Ministry strongly resisted it. The Scientific Advisor to the Defence Minister discarded it as unnecessary. But the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Defence has now categorically rejected both views and recommended ...Wednesday
27 December '06Defence Minister AK Antony, who took office shortly after the Barak missile controversy broke, is scheduled to take a cruise with the Navy on January 4 off the West coast, where he will be given a live demonstration of the Israeli system’s anti-missile capability.Tuesday
26 December '06Eight specially-equipped ships of the National Hydrographic Office have surveyed the changes wrought to seabed and coast by the December 26, 2004Saturday
23 December '06If there's one thing that will separate Aero India 2007 in February from its past five avatars, quite apart from the obvious expansion in size...Sunday
24 December '06Alexandria unfolds layer by layer, from its ancient library to underwater expeditions to its pastThursday
21 December '06Unlike the Americans and the Russians, who’ve mounted a blitzkrieg pitch of their fighters for New Delhi’s upcoming contract for 126 new jets, its largest ever, Sweden’s contender has remained well behind the scenes over the last two years.Thursday
21 December '06The plan to convert the military airfield in Halwara into an international civilian airport for nearby Ludhiana, despite the UPA Government’s politically effervescent push, is back to square one.Wednesday
20 December '06The rumblings in the Army over suicides and fratricidal killings, some of them of officers as senior as Lt-Colonels, have reached right up to the Defence MinisterSunday
17 December '06ON August 28, 1990, Shahid Malik, then political counsellor at the Embassy of Pakistan in Washington wrote to The New York Times, protesting one of its editorials on his country.Thursday
14 December '06With both India and Pakistan gearing up to receive advanced airborne warning and control (AWACS) aircraft respectively from Israel and Sweden, priority purchases to keep track of each other's air and ground movements from well behind their border, Washington has geared up to get a foothold.
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