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Indian Air Force’s Russian-designed Su-30 MKi fighter jets fly over New Delhi

Indian Air Force's Russian-designed Su-30 MKi fighter jets fly over New Delhi

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With single-engine, Soviet-era combat aircraft being replaced by twin-engine, Western bloc aircraft, it remains to be seen whether IAF's aircraft, fighter pilots are spared erosion of men, materials

Cost of IAF's lesson: 50 squadrons lost

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indian military, indian army, military logistics

With the Indian Army placing orders for a fresh batch of Stallion trucks, there is an urgent need to simplify military logistics to reduce cost

Lessons from a load carrier

International relation

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Despite the bonhomie between the US and India, New Delhi's geopolitical constraints remain visible

India's strategic choices

self reliance, military, economy, defense

India's military can no longer afford to create a patchwork of small and relatively inconsequential systems purchased from here and there

Coordinating in the battlefield

Navy

India's historical focus on its continental borders has overshadowed its maritime ambitions, but that is changing quickly

Indo-Pacific naval strategy

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Defence cooperation is fizzling out with no big-ticket procurement driving forward the relationship

Defining India-US relations

The advantages India enjoys in dealing with the Chinese are heavily dependent on the 14th Dalai Lama and his inspirational leadership, but there is no long-term strategy

Prayer for policy

There is a need to streamline allocations and make the budgetary document less complicated to assess its true impact

Decluttering the defence budget

Illustration: Binay Sinha

India's military is unique in facing a multiple-front threat without a long-term security strategy

Time to take stock

navy

China's navy is the fastest-growing in the world, but a formidable adversary to rein in its might in the Indo-Pacific is taking shape

Fighting the naval battle

Airbus C295

military

Unanswered questions remain over India's readiness for such a contingency

Handling a high-tech Chinese military

Indian border

China is re-settling Tibetan graziers in villages along the border. India cannot afford to leave its border residents to their fate

Chinese chequers on the China border

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Agnipath pits batchmates against one another, creating incentives for each other's failure rather than success

One recruit, one salary

The army faces a shortage of the modern battlefield's most lethal killer

Evaluating the arsenal

The untimely demise of the first chief of defence staff has sent the issue of joint theatres back to the start line

The missing CDS

India's consideration of AI-based weapons systems, though right, would need to consider various legal and ethical conundrums

Thinking hard on AI

Given the economic and military-technical realities, India needs to jump-start indigenous aero engine programmes for combat aircraft without delay

An atmanirbhar flight plan for fighter jets

Defence, Indian Army,

Even as the total allocation has increased, it has fallen as a percentage of GDP

A bigger, not better, defence budget

army, indian army

The defence ministry's year-end review focuses exclusively on the achievements, but it does offer a glimpse into the challenges ahead

Looking ahead to 2022

In the new military architecture emerging in the Indo-Pacific, a third aircraft carrier will be needed to effectively counter the Chinese Navy

A big stick for the Indian Navy

defence sector

As the government restructures defence manufacturing, it must keep in mind that changing the functional model alone won't improve efficiency

Ordnance factories' moment in history

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It lies in the contentious battle for control over digital content, with publishers and creators denying AI players access to their work, and countries plugging regulatory gaps

artificial intelligence, Ai

Democracies are withering everywhere and require constant reform. In India, one-nation-one-poll is a good idea, but it cannot work as a standalone reform

one-nation-one-poll, election

This pace of deposit mobilisation is higher than that of the banking system's pace of 12.8 per cent Y-o-Y as of 8 September 2023

indusind bank

Robert Bosch Automotive Steering GmbH, a promoter of Z F Steering Gear (India) Ltd, has settled a case pertaining to alleged violation of disclosure norms with Sebi after paying Rs 10 lakh as the settlement charges.
The order came after the applicant had filed a suo motu settlement application proposed to "settle by neither admitting nor denying any conclusions of law or fact".
"It is hereby ordered that any proceedings that may be initiated for the violations are settled in respect of the applicant," Sebi's whole time members Ananth Narayan G and Amarjeet Singh said in the settlement order passed on September 27.
The applicant was required to make annual disclosures of its shareholding in terms of SAST (Substantial Acquisition of Shares and Takeover) rules, for the financial years 2019-20 and 2020-21 on or before June 01, 2020 and April 9, 2021, respectively.
However, it had made delayed disclosures in March 2023 and July 2021, respectively.
Robert Bosch Automotive Steering was a

SEBI

Neeraj Chopra javelin throw event at the Asian Games will start in the evening on October 4 at 4:35 pm according to Indian Standard Time.

Neeraj Chopra in Asian Games 2023

Bidhuri may be a small fry in the larger calculus of the party. Yet, in his blundering and uncultured way, he was voicing in Parliament what has already been normalised on the streets

Bidhuri

The RoDTEP scheme was introduced in September 2021 for exports made with effect from January 1, 2021

Private sector likely to get limited access to Gati Shakti portal

exports

As the festival season approaches, followed by elections, state and national, there will be pressure on liquidity since cash with the public will rise

Ajai Shukla