All stories by Ajai Shukla
'Where do we draw the line', asks army over Sri Sri event
Rediff.com10 Mar 2016Many senior officers believe the chief should have taken a stronger stand against using army resources to help what one officer calls "a government-friendly godman".
Defence budget must reflect reality
Rediff.com16 Feb 2016Unimaginative increments, persistent refusal of funds have turned the military into an underfed child scared to ask for a full meal.
Fully built desi trainer aircraft readies to fly
Rediff.com6 Feb 2016In a boost to 'Make in India, the HTT-40 rolled out of the hangar with all its lights flashing and its cockpit powered on.
India gears up to show off its naval might in the International Fleet Review
Rediff.com4 Feb 2016Once in each President's term in office, he or she carries out a "naval fleet review", a deliberately public assembly of the entire fleet.
Dynamatic and the long road to 'Make in India'
Rediff.com2 Feb 2016Starting as a maker of hydraulic pumps, the Bengaluru-based company graduated to components for automakers like BMW and Audi, and then Airbus and Boeing
Modi and Doval need a Pakistan gameplan
Rediff.com19 Jan 2016India should adopt a pro-active strategy on Pakistan -- catalysing, facilitating and making room for a change in its anti-India posture.
'Make in India' challenge for Kamov helicopter
Rediff.com18 Jan 2016The Kamov-226T indigenisation has been complicated by an unusually detailed Inter-Governmental Agreement.
Make Indian, buy Indian: Defence Minister's mantra
Rediff.com13 Jan 2016At least 40% of a product must be manufactured in India for it to qualify for the Indian Designed, Developed and Manufactured category.
Tejas team aims to outperform Pak's JF-17 at Bahrain air show
Rediff.com10 Jan 2016It is learnt that the Aeronautical Development Agency, which oversees the development of Tejas, has put together a flying routine that 'significantly surpasses any aerobatics display the fighter has presented earlier'.
Why the Pathankot op has gone on for so long
Rediff.com5 Jan 2016'Inept handling by the National Security Advisor transformed what should have been a short counter-terrorist operation in Pathankot into an apparent debacle.'
Tejas set to make its debut on world stage
Rediff.com2 Jan 2016It's a bold marketing move for the locally-produced light combat aircraft.
India no longer biggest arms importer
Rediff.com29 Dec 2015The authoritative Congressional Research Service, which provides data and analysis to the US Congress, finds that India no longer features in the world's three biggest arms importers.
Modi seizes initiative on Pakistan policy
Rediff.com26 Dec 2015'Foreign ministry sources in Delhi discount the official version of the story, in which Modi made an impromptu request to stop over at Lahore, during the course of a birthday telephone call to Nawaz Sharif. In fact, this stopover had been carefully considered in Delhi, as a way to galvanise the peace process further.'
Modi's Moscow agenda: Gen-5 fighters, missiles, frigates...
Rediff.com24 Dec 2015There could be significant announcements about India's purchase of Kamov-226T helicopters, S-400 air defence missile systems, and the long-delayed contract for joint development of the Fifth Generation Fighter Aircraft.
The time has truly come to have sustained talks with Pakistan
Rediff.com8 Dec 2015The government has returned to talks with Pakistan, but can it withstand pressure from a jingoistic press and a rabidly nationalistic social media.
This missile is India's answer to the Pakistan Navy
Rediff.com2 Dec 2015The Long Range Surface to Air Missile jointly being developed by India and Israel is an answer to potential threats from Pakistan's anti-ship missile.
Seventh Pay Commission's biggest losers: The armed forces
Rediff.com24 Nov 2015The 7th CPC places the Indian Police Service (and, almost in passing, the Indian Forest Service) on a level with the Indian Administrative Service, leaving the military out in the cold.
Parrikar in new controversy... this time over land in Goa
Rediff.com23 Nov 2015"U-turn minister" Parrikar had publicly promised, when he was chief minister three years ago, that no more Goa land would be handed over to the Centre.
Ashraf Ghani's honeymoon with Pakistan is over!
Rediff.com22 Nov 2015The Afghan deputy foreign minister explains how his nation's President became disillusioned with Pakistan. Ajai Shukla listens in.
As Pakistan's army chief heads to US, is a tactical nuke deal possible?
Rediff.com16 Nov 2015A proposed nuclear deal aims to stop Pakistan from building small tactical nuclear weapons that could fall into terrorist hands.