Pathankot Attackers Non-state Actors with Establishment Support: Parrikar

SOURCE IANS Non-state actors were involved in the Pathankot terror attack but they cannot function smoothly without support from the state, Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar said on Tuesday in the Rajya Sabha. Replying to supplementary questions in the upper house, the minister was asked by Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut whether the Pathankot attack was […]

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Goa CM Launches FPV Built for Mauritius Coast Guard

SOURCE : PTI In a new chapter in Indo-Mauritian Defence co-operation, Goa government launched a Fast Patrol Vessel (FPV), ‘MCGS Victory’, designed and built in-house by Goa Shipyard Limited for Mauritius Coast Guard. Chief Minister Laxmikant Parsekar, while addressing a gathering at the launch here yesterday, lauded the work being done in the shipyard. He […]

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IAF Strengthening Ground Infrastructure in North/North-East

SOURCE: India Strategic The Indian Air Force (IAF) is expediting the upgradation programmes of its various ALGs (Advance Landing Grounds) especially the ones located in the northern regions in Ladakh and India’s north-eastern region in and around Arunachal Pradesh taking into account massive Chinese infrastructural development opposite these areas in the Chinese occupied Tibet. This […]

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India in the Indian Ocean

SOURCE: Air Marshal D Kukreja (Retd)/India Strategic During the Mauryan Empire, from the time of Chandragupta Maurya to Ashoka, some 2,400 years ago, India’s Navy was the dominant power in the Indian Ocean. The medieval Chola dynasty was India’s only true maritime empire, with a sphere of influence extending from the Indian coast, through the […]

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Why Did the British Keep India and Australia as Colonies?

SOURCE: SLATE This question originally appeared on Quora, the knowledge-sharing network where compelling questions are answered by people with unique insights. You can follow Quora on Twitter, Facebook, and Google Plus. Answer by Balaji Viswanathan, history buff: Indian colonization provided the key ingredients for the textile revolution (also called the Industrial Revolution) in Britain. The two […]

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A new wave for India and Australia

SOURCE: POLICYFORUM Australia’s defence white paper and India’s maritime strategy plot a course for the two countries to help bring stability to the region, writes Darshana M Baruah.  India has long considered Australia a distant continent with no immediate effects on its security or strategic interests. Canberra too didn’t see much in its engagements with […]

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Why Tail Numbers of India’s Sukhoi-30s are misleading

SOURCE: IDRW NEWS NETWORK Plane spotters in India are having difficult times when it comes to following tail numbers on HAL manufactured Sukhoi-30 MKI lately. Tail numbers are grossly misleading due to production phases which have been mixed up leading to leapfrogging from Phase to Phases. The original order for 140 Sukhoi-30MKI’s to be built […]

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