GOVERNANCE – The IAS and India’s Security
Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism, operated by pygmies - Honore de Balzac
What has the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) to do with India's security ?...
Editorial: Towards a Comprehensive Indo-US Strategic Partnership
In recent years, especially since 2014, with the Narendra Modi government coming to office in India one can notice that the relationship between New...
MILITARY LOGISTICS: Atal Rohtang Tunnel Completed
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...
Education and History Shape the Nation’s Future
Most effective way of destroying people is to deny and obliterate their understanding of their history. ...
FLIGHT SAFETY: Pilot Experience is No Guarantee of Safety
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 is Commandant Indian Naval Academy
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 Marshal VR Chaudhari, chief of Western Air Command
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...
HUMAN RESOURCES: 3-Year ‘Tour of Duty’ Under Consideration
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,...
INDIA-CHINA: India’s Historical Blunders
China's Membership of UN Security Council
India rejected the permanent membership of the United Nations Security Council – not once but twice – and today...
Ignorance and Mental Slavery Impedes National Security (Part 2)
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Who is responsible? Clearly, it is the sedimentation of 900 years of Muslim and British rule, compounded by the apologetic lack...