The writer is a former MP from Rajasthan

June 30, 1998 00:00 IST
A Nuclear no-first-use proposal is an outcome of three basic criteria having been fulfilled. The first revolves around an overwhelming super...
Tue, Jun 30, 1998
June 21, 1998 00:00 IST
Soon after taking over as the Defence Minister, George Fernandes had a briefing scheduled for 9 a.m. at the Military Operations Directorate....
Sun, Jun 21, 1998
June 21, 1998 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, June 20: The `B' word continues to bedevil the Army, but now as a hurdle in its modernisation plans. Even as the Army Plan 2000 i...
Sun, Jun 21, 1998
June 19, 1998 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, June 18: A proposal for a national nuclear command structure placed before the Government by the committee of the three service c...
Fri, Jun 19, 1998
June 12, 1998 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, June 11: The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has scored a significant victory by negotiating with the Russian vendors for the Tunguska ...
Fri, Jun 12, 1998
June 05, 1998 00:00 IST
New Delhi, June 4: The Finance Division (FD) of the Ministry of Defence (MoD) has asked Army Headquarters to explain as to how it has been u...
Fri, Jun 05, 1998
May 25, 1998 00:00 IST
New Delhi is a soulless city. And it is, therefore, prone to throwing up an incredible galaxy of coalitions in its discourses. From lumpen c...
Mon, May 25, 1998
May 18, 1998 00:00 IST
May 11. At 3.30 in the afternoon, Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee called a high-level meeting of Home Minister L.K. Advani, Defence Mini...
Mon, May 18, 1998
May 15, 1998 00:00 IST
New Delhi, May 14: International aviation notices were issued, major engineering movements undertaken, and the presence of important scienti...
Fri, May 15, 1998
May 12, 1998 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, May 11: Buddha today smiled for the second time at Pokharan, and grinned three times on his birth anniversary which coincided wit...
Tue, May 12, 1998
May 01, 1998 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, April 30: Pakistan is making a new nuclear weapons testing facility with active help from an American company which has participa...
Fri, May 01, 1998
April 23, 1998 00:00 IST
Fort William, Calcutta, is not headless anymore now that the vacant post of General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Eastern Command, has finall...
Thu, Apr 23, 1998
April 14, 1998 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, April 13: The Army is to shortly commence, yet again, the summer trials for its decade-old requirement of self-propelled (SP) how...
Tue, Apr 14, 1998
April 09, 1998 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, April 8: Even with negligible help from satellite imagery, security specialists here are firmly of the opinion that the firing of...
Thu, Apr 09, 1998
April 08, 1998 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, April 7: Pakistan's claim yesterday to have tested Ghauri, an Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile (IRBM), have been received by ...
Wed, Apr 08, 1998
March 26, 1998 00:00 IST
IC-43117 would today have been a Major in the Army. He can never become one, because he is not around today. And his premature departure fro...
Thu, Mar 26, 1998
February 27, 1998 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, February 26: The General Officer Commanding-in-Chief (GOC-in-C) of the sensitive Eastern Command, Lt Gen Ravi Eipe, is scheduled ...
Fri, Feb 27, 1998
February 08, 1998 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, February 7: Delay on the part of the Ministry of Defence (MoD) to commit an Army Special Forces instruction team for Mauritius ha...
Sun, Feb 08, 1998
January 31, 1998 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, January 30: With the retirement today of a Major General on account of the Ministry of Defence (MoD) holding up the April 1997 pr...
Sat, Jan 31, 1998
January 25, 1998 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, Jan 24: Fifty years down Independence lane, and India's armed forces are not to be trusted. Or so it seemed during the full dress...
Sun, Jan 25, 1998
January 18, 1998 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, Jan 17: In the biggest military contract of 1997, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) has signed an agreement to purchase three frigate...
Sun, Jan 18, 1998
December 26, 1997 00:00 IST
Spare a thought for the paratrooper in the Kashmir valley, the Jat on the glacier, the Maratha on the Line of Control (LC), grenadiers in t...
Fri, Dec 26, 1997
December 22, 1997 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, December 21: The protracted delay by the Government of India in approving some key promotion results of Army officers is causing...
Mon, Dec 22, 1997
December 15, 1997 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, Dec 14: It took an ambush in Mulaitivu to convince the Indian Peace Keeping Force (IPKF) that the Government of India was contin...
Mon, Dec 15, 1997
December 12, 1997 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, Dec 11: The five-year-old wait continues, with the field commanders of the Army still nowhere near realising their demand for mo...
Fri, Dec 12, 1997





