“Prachi” Looks Up
It is almost official. India’s integrated ballistic missile defence ensemble will be called either Prachi or Pratchi — it is learnt that both these names […]
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IAF Completes Exercise Dakshik Prahar
Will write more in detail about this exercise later. But for now, here’s the IAF’s official press release on the just concluded exercise. And take
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Tejas Flies with Litening
Another update from ADA today (quoted): The Tejas LCA programme received a major fillip with the first successful flight test using the Litening pod which
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Admiral Prakash’s 2005 Resignation Letter!
I’m posting these documents because I bet there’s a measure of curiosity and interest in the whole War Room Leak case and the investigation that
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Admiral Overboard?
Chief of Naval Staff Admiral Sureesh Mehta is not known to be a forthright officer who “tells it like it is”, and is usually supremely
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Arun Prakash Protests Award for Outlook
Some of us defence correspondents received a very aggrieved e-mail from former Chief of Naval Staff Admiral Arun Prakash a few days ago. Few would
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The Final Trial for Akash
Sorry for the absence. Back today with a special report from the new newspaper of the India Today group, Mail Today. Here’s an interesting report
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Govt admits to Gorshkov nonsense
The government has finally come on the record about the INS Vikramaditya (formerly Admiral Gorshkov) refurbishment programme at the Sevmash shipyard in North-Western Russia. A
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From Nandigram with blood..
Not that I'm trying to bring Nandigram onto this blog, but Mail Today, the new newspaper from the Indian Today Group was launched yesterday, and
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Back from Nandigram
Sorry for no posts for a few days. I’m in Kolkata — spent the last few days covering the stuff happening in Nandigram. Back in
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