Defence general

15 Jul 2011

15 Jul 2011

The Pentagon yesterday revealed that a cyber attack launched by an unnamed foreign government earlier this year had caused the largest ever loss of sensitive data

14 Jul 2011

• The government has not ruled out the possibility of the involvement of a suicide bomber in the Mumbai serial blasts, Home Secretary RK Singh has said. According to Singh, the director general of the NSG has said that a body with circuitry embedded in it has been found from near an explosion site.
• PM Manmohan Singh on Thursday announced ex-gratia assistance of Rs2 lakh each for the kin of the deceased in Wednesday's terror attack and also Rs1 lakh each for the seriously injured.

13 Jul 2011

A quick intelligence assessment of the Wednesday bomb blasts in Mumbai by global intelligence analysis group Stratfor

13 Jul 2011

11 Jul 2011

Controversial space-services related firm, Devas Multimedia, has approached the International Court of Arbitration seeking restoration of its contract with ISRO’s commercial arm Antrix.

11 Jul 2011

India has begun construction of its second nuclear submarine at a new shipyard in Vishakhapatnam, especially configured for the indigenous nuclear submarine construction programme.

11 Jul 2011

Tightening the screws further, the United States of America has said it intends to suspend $800 million, or more than one-third, of the $2 billion in annual aid it provides to Pakistan's military services.

07 Jul 2011

By Rajiv Singh | 07 Jul 2011

Observers in Pakistan say India may have stolen a decisive march in the battle for “priority rights” of the Kishanganga-Neelam waters even before commencement of international arbitration proceedings, according to Rajiv Singh.

06 Jul 2011

France has again underlined its support for the ‘clean exemption’ granted India by the 46-nation NSG in September 2008, immediately after Delhi dropped loud hints it would retaliate in kind should the NSG amend any aspect of the exemption granted to it.

06 Jul 2011

Mumbai-based Varun Group said Tuesday it had discovered rare earth critical to the technology industry and titanium minerals in its ten exploratory and mining lease blocks in Madagascar.

05 Jul 2011

05 Jul 2011

As the non-proliferation lobbies of the West fume about India’s ‘clean waiver’ and try and subvert the agreement, the NSG has cleared a deal struck by arch-proliferators China and Pakistan for two additional nuclear reactors.

04 Jul 2011

Iran backed off Sunday from a threat issued earlier to Indian refiners to block crude oil exports from August, and said it would continue supplies to the country. India is one of the top buyers of Iranian crude.

04 Jul 2011

India finally appears to have made a clear response to the NSG threat to ban export of ENR technologies to India with the foreign secretary stating that Delhi will not oblige countries with purchase of nuclear reactors in such an eventuality.

02 Jul 2011

Setting to rest an unpleasant controversy, the Government of India has cleared the appointment of defence secretary, Pradeep Kumar, as the country’s next chief vigilance commissioner with a three member panel consisting of the prime minister, the home minister and leader of the opposition approving the appointment.

01 Jul 2011

 France has reiterated that the recent decision of the NSG to strengthen guidelines on transfer of enrichment and reprocessing technology would in no way “undermine the principles of this exemption (given to India)."

01 Jul 2011

01 Jul 2011

By By Rajiv Singh | 30 Jun 2011

Russia sent out conflicting signals over its support for India over recently amended NSG guidelines for export of ENR technologies. With the Russian foreign ministry hedging its responses in Moscow, Russian embassy officials in Delhi were more forthcoming in their support, reports Rajiv Singh. 

By By Rajiv Singh | 28 Jun 2011

After days of behind-the-scenes posturing, the Government of India said Monday that any "unilateral" decision by the Nuclear Suppliers Group cannot supersede the ‘clean waiver’ granted to India by the group in 2008, reports Rajiv Singh.

28 Jun 2011

By By Rajiv Singh | 25 Jun 2011

Is India bound any longer by commitments made to the US and the NSG to ease export regulations regarding nuclear equipment and material, as the “clean” waiver it got from them has now been rolled back, asks Rajiv Singh? As of Friday, the cartel barred its members from supplying ENR equipment and technologies to NPT non-signatories.

23 Jun 2011

Reports in Australia now suggest that the Labour government in power may mend fences with India and review its controversial ban on uranium exports to this rising Asian power.