DG Natarajan PTM,TM,Director General of Indian Coast Guard, in a candid interview with Ms Arti Bali from Strategic Affairs, spoke in detail about ICG’s vision, cooperation, challenges and future role As you have completed over one year as the Director General of the Indian Coast Guard, Could you please enumerate the major accomplishments which were envisaged by you […]
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North Korea to attack Japan more accurately Although North Korea has last week launched its first ICBM test since mid-September, prompting concerned world leaders to prepare for another or more, the real target seems to be Japan than US going by recent trajectory tracking of missiles. After conducting several monitoring of missile course till now, […]
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China keen to deploy submarines in Pakistan permanently China is looking for a permanent submarine and warship berthing facility in the newly created Gwadar Port of Pakistan and four submarines are likely to be parked in the territorial waters of Pakistan which is a key ally of China. All this means China is going to […]
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Is China helping Pakistani terrorists to contain India? China is pursuing a different state policy under the visionary leadership of Xi Jinping which is not very much known till date to contain some of its adversaries. The new smart policy is pretty similar to what United States and Soviet Union pursued during the Cold War […]
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INS Vikramaditya repair work may suffer hurdles India is planning to upgrade INS Vikramaditya aircraft carrier to give it a special capability to hit the targets with more accurately and high level of lethality but the whole plan may suffer hurdles due to internal problems of Russia. Russian companies are keen to undertake the contract […]
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China bargained for border concession to give entry into NSG As the post-NSG meeting in Seoul has erupted with spat between India and China as the latter was asking for clearing procedural hurdles to secure membership, it is coming out that China had demanded India to normalize relations by solving border issues as soon as […]
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Agusta deal payment was cleared hurriedly The probe into Agusta chopper deal may have brought out some new facts into the public domain about the involvement of top ranking officials in India but the deal was cleared in a record short period as former Defence Minister A K Antony’s office had put tremendous pressure on […]
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ISIS is using internet as prime source for recruitment in South Asia The Islamic State is using Internet as prime source of reaching out to carders among South Asian origin people and find new recruits in the region who are net savvy and can be trapped easily through various social networking sites. In 2015, the […]
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Russia-India payment dispute on several defence deals Although India and Russia are traditional friends and have a strong defence ties for decades, now both sides are feeling disenchantment over payment dues and Liquidity Damage (LD) claims which can hold several defence deals into ransom. Russia has demanded that India should urgently clear payment worth USD […]
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Foreign arms manufacturers disappointed: No policy clarity Most Indian private and foreign defence manufacturers are apprehensive that whether Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s vision about ‘Make in India’ initiative in defence sector will succeed as policy ambiguity still persists in some form or the other. Although the NDA government is trying to attract investment into defence […]
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