'Given the importance of equipment modernisation, the overall defence budget should rise at least at the same pace as salaries and pensions, so that equipment modernisation is not hit,' observes......
India's plan to buy futuristic tanks and infantry combat vehicles -- estimated to be worth Rs 80,000 crore to Rs 100,000 crore each -- will certainly intimidate Pakistan which already feels......
40 years ago, on April 30, 1975, Saigon fell to the North Vietnamese army, ending the Vietnam War. Military historian Colonel Anil A Athale (retd) debunks myths about the Vietnam War which......
At the edge of the Shola forest, at the foot of the Ayyasamy Hills, in western Tamil Nadu, near Coimbatore, lives a writer and scholar who traveled to India from northern France over three decades......
US-based South Asia analyst Kaushik Kapisthalam examines the Defence Research and Development Organisation's performance in a three-part series:Part I : DRDO, Media's whipping boy?The Indian......
Though an engineer by profession Anita Udeep, the daughter of Pentamedia chief V Chandrasekharan, chose to be a filmmaker. Her latest Tamil film Kulir 100 Degrees is ready to hit the theatres soon.......
Noppawan Lertcheewakarn of Thailand holds her trophy after defeating Kristina Mladenovic of France in their Girls' Singles finals match on Saturday. Lertcheewakarn, who had lost the 2008 final to......