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Listen to this article: Chandigarh: No detailed analysis or elaborate think-tank evaluation is needed to see that the Indian Air Force (IAF) presently...
Listen to this article: Chandigarh: A policeman’s uniform and deportment are the ultimate badges of his office: the former identifies the wearer and...
Listen to this article: Chandigarh: One of the enduring curiosities of Indian officialdom is how readily senior officials have ready answers to...
Listen to this article: Chandigarh: Few Indian motor vehicles have acquired quite the awesome baggage of the four-wheel-drive Mahindra Thar jeep. Once...
Listen to this article: Chandigarh: The Indian Air Force (IAF) faces a serious operational dilemma as it fast-tracks the acquisition of 114 additional...
Listen to this article: Seemingly oblivious to the massive financial commitments involved, the Indian Air Force (IAF) is currently considering an...
Listen to this article: Chandigarh: The impending discussions between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Vladimir Putin on Friday (September...
Listen to this article: Chandigarh: Three US-origin General Electric (GE) combat aircraft engines were finally delivered to Hindustan Aeronautics...
Listen to this article: Sixteen years after the Indian Army first sought the US-origin Javelin anti-tank guided missile (ATGM) in 2010, with...
Listen to this article: Sixteen years after the Indian Army first sought the US-origin Javelin anti-tank guided missile (ATGM) in 2010, with...
Listen to this article: Chandigarh: Undoubtedly, one of the most glaring and enduring failures of India’s defence industry has been its inability to...
Listen to this article: Chandigarh: In what can only be described as a client-patron arrangement in the stark calculus of defence procurement, India...
Listen to this article: Chandigarh: Amid the usual torrent of recycled anecdotes, dubious quotations and mangled history was a brief video clip about...
Listen to this article: Chandigarh: The Indian Air Force (IAF) will, no doubt, be closely evaluating China’s J-16 fighters going up against the...
Chandigarh: Over the weekend, India once again demonstrated its ability to turn an imported weapon into an “indigenous” one, with the...
Listen to this article: There is something increasingly disturbing about how the Indian media, with rare exceptions, has covered defence issues in...
Listen to this article: Chandigarh: Some 109 years before Flight Lieutenant Arshdeep Singh Dang was commissioned into the Royal Air Force (RAF),...
Listen to this article: Chandigarh: The US Navy (USN) has devised an unconventional response to the psychological strain imposed on sailors, Marines...
Listen to this article: Chandigarh: For decades, India’s military aviation establishment has been burdened by a critical and enduring existential...
Listen to this article: Chandigarh: For most Punjabis born after Independence – and certainly for anyone under the age of 60 today – Partition is...
Listen to this article: The Indian Air Force (IAF)’s Request for Proposal (RfP) for 60 Medium Transport Aircraft (MTA), estimated at around Rs 1...
Listen to this article: Chandigarh: Being an Assistant Master in my early twenties at Mayo College, Ajmer, was both a privilege and an adventure. Few...
Listen to this article: Chandigarh: There is growing speculation in military and strategic circles that the government may use Independence Day, or...
Listen to this article: Chandigarh: India seems to have arrived at the rather remarkable conclusion that the answer to its enduring combat aircraft...
Listen to this article: Chandigarh: Remarkably, the Indian Air Force’s (IAF’s) proposed Rs 3.25 lakh crore acquisition of 114 Dassault Rafale...
Listen to this article: India’s long-pending quest for self-reliance in the military sector remains trapped in a stubborn intellectual property...
Listen to this article: Chandigarh: The recent Cockroach Janata Party (CJP) campaign appears to have emboldened the silent majority among the malai...
Listen to this article: Long before social media, anonymous trolls and WhatsApp ‘forwards’ reduced irreverence and lampooning to little more than...
Listen to this article: Chandigarh: For over two decades, successive governments in New Delhi have proclaimed the United States as India’s “major...
Listen to this article: New Delhi: They are fast disappearing – one Gymkhana Club, one race course and one polo ground at a time, each a lingering...
Listen to this article: New Delhi: Few defence exports have attracted as much attention at home and abroad – or embodied as many geopolitical...
Listen to this article: New Delhi: Having recently assumed office as India’s third Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), recommissioned General N.S. Raja...
Listen to this article: New Delhi: Like his predecessors, India’s newly appointed Chief of Army Staff (COAS), General Dhiraj Seth, has sought to...
Listen to this article: New Delhi: Mounting uncertainty over India’s negotiations with the United States and General Electric (GE) over the F414...
Listen to this article: New Delhi: For more than a decade, successive BJP-led governments have championed Aatmanirbhar Bharat (self-reliant) in the...
Listen to this article: New Delhi: Away from the headlines surrounding aero engines, fighter aircraft, advanced unmanned aerial vehicles, missile...
Listen to this article: Chandigarh: What was once hailed as one of the most consequential defence technology agreements between India and the United...
Listen to this article: Chandigarh: India’s bureaucracy has long been a global leader in administrative innovation, as nowhere else can a government...
Listen to this article: Chandigarh: The Indian Air Force’s (IAF) recent tender issued to France’s Dassault Aviation and Safran Aircraft Engines...
Listen to this article: Chandigarh: The disappearance of the Jaipur Polo Ground from New Delhi’s public life marks more than just the loss of a...
Listen to this article: Chandigarh: On June 23, when President Droupadi Murmu confers the Padma Shri for social service upon 88-year-old Inderjit...
Listen to this article: Chandigarh: Amid endless plans and discussions to modernise India’s military, one issue that receives far less attention...
Listen to this article: Chandigarh: Few countries have done more to unsettle successive US presidents than Iran. Remarkably, it achieved this...
Listen to this article: Chandigarh: In a move aimed at sustaining the operational capability of the Indian Air Force’s (IAF) legacy Anglo-French...
Listen to this article: The government’s recent takeover of the historic nearly century-old Jaipur Polo Ground in New Delhi passed off with...
Listen to this article: Chandigarh: The Indian Army’s recently introduced uniform regulations, widely understood to have been undertaken at the...
Listen to this article: Chandigarh: The recent dedication of a classroom at Aitchison College in Lahore to former alumnus Harcharan Singh Brar, the...
Listen to this article: Chandigarh: The latest addition to the ever-expanding catalogue of India-US defence cooperation initiatives – the Underwater...
Listen to this article: Chandigarh: If there is one enduring feature of India’s defence procurement, it is the tendency of the Ministry of Defence...
Listen to this article: Chandigarh: World Bicycle Day is a reminder of a simple truth: the cycle remains one of the most efficient, affordable and...