The Department Defence Production (DDP), under India’s Ministry of Defence (MOD), oversees defence manufacturing in India and has direct control over nine defence public sector undertakings (DPSUs) and the Ordnance Factory Board (OFB) besides some other entities. In recent...
The Indian Army (IA) in an official statement has confirmed that it has undertaken punitive strikes against Pakistani Army (PA) posts along the Line of Control (LoC) in the Naushera sector of the Indian state of Jammu & Kashmir (J&K)....
Dr G. Satheesh Reddy is a distinguished scientist with numerous awards and honours to his credit. Besides serving as Director General (Missiles & Strategic Systems) for the Defence Research and Development Organization (DRDO), Dr Reddy is also the Scientific Adviser...
Editor's Note: The United States State Department has of late been making a lot of noise about 'health attacks' of a potentially acoustic nature on 16 of its diplomats in Havana, Cuba. These attacks have apparently taken place over...
“Nothing should be as favourably regarded as intelligence;
Nothing should be as generously rewarded as intelligence;
Nothing should be confidential as the work of intelligence,”
– Sun Tzu
A great book is one that prompts the reader to contemplate its content even after...
Early 2017 witnessed a slew of video messages from Indian Army soldiers, Border Security Force troopers and Central Reserve Police Force personnel expressing grievances at service conditions, food, etc.
In no time these videos went viral, and snowballed into a controversy...
The Dalai Lama’s recent weeklong visit to the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh has had a rather adverse impact on the flow of diplomatic engagement between India and China. The primary casualty of the visit seems to be the...
As part of the World Trade Organization (WTO), India signed the Information Technology Agreement (ITA) in 1996. The ITA requires each participant to eliminate customs duties and bind them at zero levels for all products specified in the Agreement....
‘The moment that justice must be paid for by the victim of injustice it becomes itself injustice’, said Benjamin R Tucker.
No contemporary published work elucidates this quote more than the book, Maimed By The System, a book that needed,...
Over the past decade, India has been steadily purchasing military platforms from the United States that typically come with secure communication systems of US-origin. However, since India has thus far refused to sign the so-called Communications Compatibility and Security...
