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Prime minister Narendra Modi addressing IAS proba oners

GOVERNANCE – The IAS and India’s Security

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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism, operated by pygmies - Honore de Balzac What has the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) to do with India's security ?...
India-US flags at the delegation table

Editorial: Towards a Comprehensive Indo-US Strategic Partnership

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In recent years, especially since 2014, with the Narendra Modi government coming to office in India one can notice that the relationship between New...
Rohtang Tunnel at 10,075 ft altitude

MILITARY LOGISTICS: Atal Rohtang Tunnel Completed

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All-Weather Route to Leh Opened The Atal Rohtang tunnel, named after former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, has been completed. To be opened on 3...
The BJP government in Maharashtra announced in 2015 that madrassas which taught only Islam and no modern subjects would be derecognised

Education and History Shape the Nation’s Future

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Most effective way of destroying people is to deny and obliterate their understanding of their history. ...
Google satellite map image of Calicut airport and )inset) the broken fuselage of the ill-fated aircraft.

FLIGHT SAFETY: Pilot Experience is No Guarantee of Safety

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The Air-India Express crash at Karipur International Airport, Kozhikode, on 7 August 2020 and the role played by flying-experience of the pilots involved necessitates...
Vice Adm MA Hampiholi, Commandant Indian Naval Academy

Vice Adm MA Hampiholi is Commandant Indian Naval Academy

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Vice Adm MA Hampiholi, AVSM, NM took over as the Commandant, Indian Naval Academy (INA) on 27 July 2020. Vice Admiral MA Hampiholi is an...
Air Mshl VR Chaudhary AOC-in-C WAC

Air Marshal VR Chaudhari, chief of Western Air Command

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Air Marshal Vivek Ram Chaudhari, AVSM, VM, took over as commander-in-chief of the Indian Air Force’s Western Air Command (WAC) which looks after the...
Indian-Army recruits undergoing obstacle course training

HUMAN RESOURCES: 3-Year ‘Tour of Duty’ Under Consideration

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Making Up Shortages Through Short-Term Schemes The Indian Army is considering a radical new proposal to take in officers for just three years of service,...
The Dalai Lama was received by the Assam Rifles at Chutangmu_Khenzimani in NEFA on March 31, 1959.

INDIA-CHINA: India’s Historical Blunders

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China's Membership of UN Security Council India rejected the permanent membership of the United Nations Security Council – not once but twice – and today...
Jawaharlal Nehru in Mussoorie, 28 April 1958

Ignorance and Mental Slavery Impedes National Security (Part 2)

Read Part 1 here Who is responsible? Clearly, it is the sedimentation of 900 years of Muslim and British rule, compounded by the apologetic lack...

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