The writer is a former MP from Rajasthan

December 17, 1998 00:00 IST
New Delhi, Dec 16: Even as the Delhi High Court determined that, `it is evident that comparative merit is neither the requirement nor per...
Thu, Dec 17, 1998
December 15, 1998 00:00 IST
An overwhelming presence of one faith, tribe, and clan in the officer cadre and amongst the troops makes for one of the conditions that i...
Tue, Dec 15, 1998
December 13, 1998 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, DEC 12: The Government is caught in a mess over senior appointments to the armed forces. Not only has it violated its own regu...
Sun, Dec 13, 1998
December 12, 1998 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, DEC 11: The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has been caught with its hand in the till, so to say, and the Comptroller and Auditor Ge...
Sat, Dec 12, 1998
December 11, 1998 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, DEC 11: The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has been caught with its hand in the till, so to say, and the Comptroller and Auditor Ge...
Fri, Dec 11, 1998
December 03, 1998 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, Dec 2: On Friday, India will mark Navy Week but this time against the backdrop of a major rift between senior service officers...
Thu, Dec 03, 1998
November 18, 1998 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, NOV 17: For years, he has been the head of the United Nations team in Kashmir, accepting reports of alleged human rights violatio...
Wed, Nov 18, 1998
November 17, 1998 00:00 IST
`Wars of subversion are won and lost in the minds,' to paraphrase the timeless words of Frank Kitson, by far the greatest military writer on...
Tue, Nov 17, 1998
November 15, 1998 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, Nov 14: Militancy in Jammu and Kashmir has been transformed largely into a series of foreign militant-dominated inter-group clash...
Sun, Nov 15, 1998
November 09, 1998 00:00 IST
New Delhi, Nov 8: The changing effect of sea tides has already caused one military action, and now it is the lucre of plenteous yields of oi...
Mon, Nov 09, 1998
November 07, 1998 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, Nov 6: On a day when Islamabad rediscovered the Shimla Agreement, lost a bunker and a cookhouse in the southern sector of the Sia...
Sat, Nov 07, 1998
November 05, 1998 00:00 IST
New Delhi, Nov 4: ``North'' carries a different meaning in India than it does in Pakistan and it is this differing interpretation of a simpl...
Thu, Nov 05, 1998
October 20, 1998 00:00 IST
There are some striking similarities between the officers of the Armoured Corps and their counterparts in the fighter pilots stream of th...
Tue, Oct 20, 1998
October 17, 1998 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, OCT 16: Rubber seals, electronics, metals and materials, the list of shortages in the Air Force is a lengthening one. And the ...
Sat, Oct 17, 1998
September 03, 1998 00:00 IST
New Delhi, Sept 2: Just when it seemed fair weather sailing ahead, the indigenous Air Defence (AD) Ship programme has run into trouble an...
Thu, Sep 03, 1998
August 25, 1998 00:00 IST
Squeamishness of the Indian mind to identify, and realise, as to what constitutes the parameters of national security concerns and intere...
Tue, Aug 25, 1998
August 23, 1998 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, Aug 22: As the bodies of Pakistanis killed in the United States air strikes are brought back to their native land for burial, ...
Sun, Aug 23, 1998
August 22, 1998 00:00 IST
New Delhi, August 21: The United States is also believed to have used combat aircraft in its attack on the bases of the godfather of terr...
Sat, Aug 22, 1998
August 18, 1998 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, Aug 17: India's indifference during the early 1990s to its natural, and permanent, interests in Afghanistan are now coming bac...
Tue, Aug 18, 1998
August 03, 1998 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, Aug 2: Pakistan's transition to a plutonium producing nuclear weapons state is soon to become a reality with its controversial...
Mon, Aug 03, 1998
July 28, 1998 00:00 IST
India has at least two generations of its citizenry brought up on that baloney called Nehruvian socialism. Its near terminal effects on I...
Tue, Jul 28, 1998
July 25, 1998 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, July 24: The Strobe Talbott-led delegation told their Pakistani interlocutors, in no uncertain terms, that any linkage between...
Sat, Jul 25, 1998
July 22, 1998 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, July 21: In the most far-reaching decision it has taken in 40 years of counter-insurgency operations (CI-OPS), the Army is to ...
Wed, Jul 22, 1998
July 18, 1998 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, July 17: After delays of more than a decade, India is finally on course to constructing an indigenous aircraft carrier. The Mi...
Sat, Jul 18, 1998
July 09, 1998 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, July 8: Pakistan's next missile test is likely to be that of a Chinese M-9 equivalent. Islamabad is reported to have been in poss...
Thu, Jul 09, 1998



