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India, China Set Eyes on Joint Satellite Constellation for BRICS
India's GSLV & PSLV Launch Vehicles & China's CZ-2F Man-Rated Rocketby Pallava BaglaNEW DELHI: Space really knows no national boundaries, yet some of the most bitter earthly battles are fought...
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Maintaining Air Superiority
Formation flying of India's most formidable warplane the Sukhoi Su-30MKIIndia is one of the two major powers in Asian Continent. In population and size she is only next to China. In terms of military...
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Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar and US Defence Secretary Ashton Carter...
Defence Minister with Ashton Carter during his last visit to the United StatesKARWAR: Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar and US Defence Secretary Ashton Carter arrived at the Karwar Naval Base in...
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Top IAF Commanders Meeting for 3 Days
New Delhi: Top commanders of the Indian Air Force (IAF) are meeting here in a three-day conference that started on Monday.Inaugurated by Minister of State for Defence Rao Inderjit Singh, the...
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US Navy Officer Charged with Spying, Possibly for China, Taiwan
National flags of the US and China are seen in front of an international hotel in BeijingThe official identified the suspect as Lieutenant Commander Edward Lin, who was born in Taiwan and later became...
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IDN TAKE: Litvinenko Death Inquiry: Key Findings & Ambiguity
Alexander Litvinenko is flanked by two investigative books written about his assasinationby Dibyendu Sekhar KumarBackground: The story would be fit for a spy novel if it weren't so implausible. A...
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IDN TAKE: The Mosul Dam on the Tigris River in on the Verge of Collapse
The Mosul Dam, the largest in Iraq, holds back billions of cubic metres of waterby Dibyendu Sekhar KumarThe MOSUL DAM of Iraq has been called the most dangerous in the world for the past decade. But...
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Ashton Carter Visits India's Mighty Aircraft Carrier INS Vikramaditya
Ashton Carter begins business leg of India tripGoa, April 11: Visiting US Defence Secretary Ashton Carter kicked off his business leg of India trip with a visit to India's mighty aircraft carrier INS...
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IDN TAKE: India Likely to Go Ahead With F-16/F/A-18 Fighter Jets Production...
USAF F/A-18 "Super Hornet"& F-16 "Fighting Falcons" flying together in a SortieIn preparation for Carter’s trip, Pentagon officials visited India and met with Indian officials to discuss Lockheed...
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Creating Frankenstein: The Saudi Export Of Wahhabism
by James M DorseyThere has long been debate about the longevity of the Saudi ruling family. My initial conclusion when I first visited Saudi Arabia exactly 40 years ago was: this can’t last. I would...
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Russian Aerospace Forces To Get New Set Of S-400 Triumph Air Defense Systems...
Russia’s Aerospace Forces will receive the sixth set of S-400 Triumph air defense missile systems by this year end, the Russian Defense Ministry press service said Sunday."Within the framework of the...
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India’s Pakistan Foreign Policy Conundrum 2016: Dr Subhash Kapila
by Dr Subhash KapilaIndia’s foreign policy on Pakistan in 2016 stands bedevilled by the conundrum arising from “Legacy Policy Issues” of “Pakistan-Appeasement” and “Peace with Pakistan at any Cost”...
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India, Maldives Resolve to Expand Defence Cooperation
Prime Minister Narendra Modi with President of Maldives Abdulla Yameen Abdul GayoomNEW DELHI: A defence cooperation pact and five other agreements to expand bilateral ties were inked between India and...
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Pakistan is not the Core of India's Foreign Policy
by Ashok MalikInstead of getting all worked up over loose allegations that opposition parties are levelling against the Modi Government on engaging with Pakistan, it makes sense to understand India’s...
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The General, the "Spy" and No Talks with India
by G ParthasarathyNawaz Sharif may have permitted the trial of Jaish-e-Mohammed terrorists for the Pathankot attack. But this fell apart because of General Raheel Shareef"s keenness to make Kulbhushan...
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US Ready to Share Know-How for Aircraft Carrier with India: Dr. Ashton Carter
PANAJI: US Defence Secretary Ashton Carter today said his country was willing to share the technology for the next generation aircraft carrier of Indian Navy. He was speaking to reporters on-board USS...
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Akash Missile Successfully Test Fired from ITR at Chandipur
BALASORE: India today test fired its indigenously developed surface-to-air Akash missile from the Integrated Test Range (ITR) at Chandipur near here. The missile targeted an unmanned air vehicle (UAV)...
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Pakistan Plans to Produce 24 JF-17 Thunder Fighter Aircraft this Year
The CAC FC-1 "Xiaolong" Fighter named as JF-17 "Thunder" by PakistanKARACHI: A fresh batch of 16 upgraded JF-17 Thunder aircraft, jointly developed by China and Pakistan, were today inducted into the...
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Cartosat-2C To Boost Military Surveillance Capabilities
by Avinash NairISRO’s earth observation satellite Cartosat-2C will be launched in May using a PSLV rocket. It will prove to be a shot-in-the arm for India’s military surveillance and reconnaissance...
View ArticleISIS Joins Hands with Canada-Based Sikh Terror Outfits for Major Attack in...
In a major development, terror outfit ISIS has joined hands with Canada-based Sikh militant outfits for a major terror attack in Delhi, sources said. Reportedly, these Sikh militant outfits are hiding...
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