New Delhi: India has removed restrictions to do defence business on Italian arms major Leonardo S. p. A., but with riders including the company not making any financial claims over past deals. India had barred Leonardo in its earlier avatar as Finmeccanica in early 2014, even before Narendra […]
(Editor’s Note: The views expressed are that of the authors.) By K. T. Jagannathan and T. S. Shankar The government has no business to be in the business of running enterprises. The erstwhile Swatantra Party and its founder, late C. Rajagopalachari, often laid much store by this philosophy […]
New Delhi: A research study has shown that China has lavishly spent huge sums of money to buy influence in India’s film world, universities, social institutions, research think-tanks, social media, and the tech industry, posing a serious threat to national security and democracy. The 76-page Study Report titled […]
(Editor’s Note: Corrections in paragraph 3 and 4, to read the economic package as Rs 2,000,000 crore or Rs 20 trillion or $266 billion, and production target Rs 30,000 crore as $4 billion respectively.) By Ayaskant Das The Ordnance Factory Board (OFB) has fallen short of its production […]
New Delhi: India needs to instill fear in the minds of Communist China if it has to achieve equilibrium in the bilateral relationship, Indian National Congress leader Dr Abhishek Singhvi said, calling for a comprehensive, aggressive change in India’s policy on China, against the Ladakh conflict backdrop. Advocating […]
By Amit Agnihotri New Delhi: On a day five Rafale fighter jets landed at the Ambala air base, political slug fest over the aircraft purchased continued with Prime Minister Narendra Modi hailing the high-tech flying machines and the opposition Indian National Congress questioning the deal. Union Minister of […]
New Delhi: An Indian minister, a former army chief at that, today endorsed figures of 43 Chinese soldiers being dead in the June 15 clash with Indian soldiers at the Galwan valley in Ladakh, where the two nations’ armies are on a border face-off since the first week […]
By Amit Agnihotri New Delhi: India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi today clarified the nation had lost no territory to China along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in eastern Ladakh, amidst a continuing border face-off between the militaries of nuclear-armed Asian neighbors. Indian Army had lost 20 of […]
New Delhi: India’s state-run Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders Limited (MDL) and private firm Larsen & Toubro have been chosen to battle it out for a Rs 45,000-crore ($6.3 billion) tender for building six next generation conventional submarines for the Indian Navy. Five Original Equipment Manufacturers — French Naval Group, […]
Snap Shot Court corrects previous judgment that had errors regading CAG report on Rafale Court says satisfied on Rafale pricing, which was marginally lower that earlier offer Court accepts ex-Congress chief Rahul Gandhi’s apology for politicising judgment New Delhi: The Supreme Court of India today rejected and dismissed […]