Ajay Lele, a research fellow at IDSA, Delhi, is author of 'Mission Mars: Indias Quest for the Red Planet
November 19,2004 00:25:52 AM
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 00:03:57 AM
Two recent events have a direct bearing on the commercialisation of space travel. Virgin Groups’ chief Sir Richard Branson announced th...
June 07,2004 00:00:00 AM
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 00:00:00 AM
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 00:00:00 AM
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 00:00:00 AM
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 00:00:00 AM
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 00:00:00 AM
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 00:00:00 AM
Wars in general and modern wars in particular have had a devastating effect on the terrestrial environment. Military activities cause severe...
May 27,2002 00:00:00 AM
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...
