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Governing Defence

Crying out for modernization

Dedication and discipline apart, the three Services need upgradation to arrest the downward slide The Armed Forces of India have undergone a phenomenal...

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Disjointed endeavours

Nearly seven years after the decision, there is only lip service to the need for integration When the Service Headquarters renamed themselves last...

Mandrin Matters

Brouhaha over ‘bounty’

The panel must heed market realities in recommending salary hikes The Sixth Pay Commission is expected to turn in its report soon so...

Governing Defence

The post-kargil shakeup

Changes in higher defence management show sincerity but the pace is slow In recent times, India has undertaken a comprehensive review of its...

Bric a Brac

Hooda, the land shark

Duping farmers As a result of the unprecedented property boom in the National Capital Region of Delhi, NOIDA and Greater NOIDA in UP...

Governing Defence

The challenge lies in our minds

The nation’s defence planning and strategy need top to bottom overhauling India’s emergence as an economic power of global significance and our essential...

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Albatross aboard the MoD deck

Registering agents without singling out defence purchases is a likely solution The recent cancellation of the Eurocopter deal due to the alleged presence...

Governing Defence

The war within

Civil-political control over the armed forces turned into a bureaucratic stranglehold The decline in the governance of defence has become so stark that...

Governing Defence

Systemic phobias

The process is trapped in the Bofors-HDW-Kargil coffins straitjacket Higher defence management is a complex national governance challenge in most democracies and the...

By the Way

Nitish’s policing problems

1972-batch IPS officer, Ashish Ranjan Sinha, has been having the time of his life ever since Bihar Governor Buta Singh appointed him Director...