Ajay Lele, a research fellow at IDSA, Delhi, is author of 'Mission Mars: Indias Quest for the Red Planet
November 19, 2004 00:25 IST
The age of aviation started a 100 years ago. On December 17, 1903, the Wright brothers achieved a flight of 12 seconds with an approximate s...
October 06, 2004 00:03 IST
Two recent events have a direct bearing on the commercialisation of space travel. Virgin Groups’ chief Sir Richard Branson announced th...
June 07, 2004 00:00 IST
The September 11 attacks shattered the feeling of security mainly amongst the western nations. The recent Al-Qaeda attacks in Saudi Arabia c...
April 30, 2004 00:00 IST
The collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the cold war has made old global balance-of-power models redundant. Tomorrow will witness th...
January 19, 2004 00:00 IST
George Bush Junior is finishing his father’s unfinished agenda. First he captured Saddam, now he intends to send Americans to Mars. Bus...
November 20, 2003 00:00 IST
It seems the neo-conservative empire is unscrambling. The Americans are facing failures on all fronts. The Afghanistan problem is far from o...
September 22, 2003 00:00 IST
It is not always the terrorist threat that puts Americans on guard. It could be a sudden electrical power breakdown. Or it could be Hurrican...
November 23, 2002 00:00 IST
The Russian special police units resorted to the use of an incapacitating gas, based on the drug fentanyl, to end the Moscow theatre hostage...
June 18, 2002 00:00 IST
Wars in general and modern wars in particular have had a devastating effect on the terrestrial environment. Military activities cause severe...
May 27, 2002 00:00 IST
The attacks on American soil on September 11 have made it clear that it will be extremely difficult to forecast the potential new attacks ag...
