In Nov 1997, the Indian Navy had entered into a contract to acquire Two Kilo-class 877 EKM submarines, with the Russian federation. The first of the two, INS Sindhurakshak was to be delivered within four months and the second, INS Sindhushastra was to be delivered in 30 months with a capability to launch and equipped with Klub 3M-54 anti-ship...
The recent firecracker ban during the festival of Diwali by many states has brought out an unlikely debate over the origin of gun powder....
INS Vagir, the fifth of Scorpene-class submarine, was launched at Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders Ltd (MDL) on 12 November 2020. Constructed under Project 75 submarine...
The US election 2020 was widely followed by the Indian's and the results have enthused the liberal patriots and a blow to the right-wing...
All over the world, naval personnel have been and are found attractive to the fairer sex, (No wonder there is an adage that a...
I graduated from the National Defence Academy (NDA) in December of 1971. The war for the liberation of Bangladesh (East Pakistan) was on at...
It started with the usual acrimony just before the 2019 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election. The Bharatiya Janta Party's (BJP) perenially junior partner the Shiv...
The emerging theme of Bihar Assembly Election 2020 appears to be defeat Nitish Kumar at all cost. Nitish is the current Chief Minister of...
Against China, India’s liberal strategic and diplomatic fraternity support the US, whose flippant wars and unilateralism actually qualify as “thuggish” and “destabilising” more than...
A series of fall outs with all India’s smaller neighbours have characterised the diplomatic scenario under PM Narendra Modi. Institutionalised condescending diplomacy from Congress...
Tanishq ad on interfaith love controversy (one of the ads from the Tanishq's Ekavatam campaign) should not come as a surprise to us Indians...
The year 2020 is the birth century of one of the most popular Indian cartoonist and illustrator RK Laxman. Speaking in the 'Laxman Legacy'...
As a child, I was subject to a lot of talk about the Soviet Union from my father, a great scholar and an erudite...
Wearing a mask by common people has become mandatory during the current viral infection causing COVID-19. This is the first time in the history...
Chinese President Xi Jinping is playing a catch up with the US President Donald Trump to feature among leaders who are negatively viewed worldwide....
The transfer of INS Sindhuvir, a Kilo Class submarine which was commissioned in the Indian Navy in 1987, to the Myanmar Navy is a...
On 21 SEPTEMBER 2011, the then Prime Minister Manmohan Singh who was en route to the 66th Session of the United Nations General Assembly...
Iran has plans to link Chabahar and Gwadar ports as it feels that linking the two will strengthen bilateral trade and bring prosperity in...
Amnesty International India, the Indian chapter of the London based Non-governmental organisation (NGO) Amnesty International, has announced halting of its work in India citing...
Ram Madhav, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) pracharak and Bharatiya Janta Party's (BJP) key troubleshooter has been unceremoniously removed from the post of BJP's...
As the former Gujarat Chief Minister, Narendra Modi stormed into the Prime Minister's office with promises of a radical change which also involved better...
On March 22, the Prime Minister addressed the nation, announced the lockdown and laid down the social distancing norms due to Corona Pandemic. A...
Women have made great strides but are still considered to be a weaker gender. She has to still fight against all the prejudices, stereotypes,...
The tension at Line of Actual Control (LAC), which has been simmering in East Ladakh since May this year, is an attempt by the...
Fever is a prominent feature of the disease since antiquity and even considered as a mighty health engine. Fever is one of the oldest...
Soon after Prime Minister Modi took over the reins of the Government of India in May 2014, he announced from the ramparts of the...
Why not collect statistics of loss of jobs, starvation, domestic violence, mental depression, resultant deaths from slum dwellers and compare with these with statistics...
It is true that natural infection almost always causes better immunity than vaccines. Whereas immunity from the disease often follows a single natural infection,...
My association with naval airfields on the East Coast started in 1981 when I was commanding INS Katchall. One day, when my ship was...
The whole world is grappling with novel coronavirus since the beginning of this year, though India started reacting only by mid March 2020. Well...
Only a handful of COVID positive people among 10000 RT PCR positive have respiratory distress. Is it not confusing for a test which correlates...