It would be fair to say that the Defence Research & Development Organization (DRDO) has contributed to substantively augmenting the technological capabilities of Indian industry through various policy initiatives and technology transfer. At the moment, DRDO is taking things...
The Defence Acquisition Council (DAC) headed by Indian Defence Minister Rajnath Singh met earlier today, for the first time in 2020, to consider a number of new and ongoing proposals for procuring critically needed platforms and equipment for the...
The Kalyani Group has been steadily raising its profile in India’s military-industrial landscape over the years. Under the leadership of Baba Kalyani, its Founder and Chairman, the Kalyani Group has graduated from being a key supplier of components...
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...
K. Vijay Kumar (IPS retd), is a former Director General of India's Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) and was Chief of the Special Task Force that brought down the notorious sandalwood smuggler Veerappan in difficult jungle terrain during Operation...
The manner in which the Nagas organized themselves for mass repatriation from big cities like Delhi, Chennai, Pune etc. during the COVID lockdown bears testament to a deep sense of societal obligation, which is ingrained in their psyche. However,...
Whether one likes it or not , in this new era of protectionism and domestic value capture, India needs a smart Industrial Policy to grow its manufacturing sector and exports. Exports have fallen since 2013, and our manufacturing sector...
Whichever way one looks at it, May 2020 appears to be a prelude to a 21st century Chinese invasion of India. To my weary eyes, the situation seems akin to what Nehru and his ‘courtier soldiers’ faced and experienced,...
India began its super-computing journey with the Param in the 1980s after the United States (US) banned the export of Cray supercomputers and in 2008, ‘EKA’, from Tata’s Computational Research Laboratories, was ranked 9th among global high-power computing (HPC)...
In recent times, an interesting proposal related to design selection for Project 75I (P-75I), which is the Indian Navy's (IN's) latest programme to acquire six diesel-electric submarines (SSKs) of imported design via license manufacture at a domestic shipyard under...
