On January 5, Navy chief Admiral Sureesh Mehta told me that aircraft carrier INS Viraat would steam on for another seven years. And the warship’s skipper Captain Girish Luthra said, “The ship is in excellent condition. It is up to…

The government is trying to get Google Earth to go easy on sensitive Indian installations. The government’s latent irritation with Google Earth was legitimised when President APJ Abdul Kalam, in his wisdom, questioned the safety of having such high-rez photos…

I’d reported on January 19 in The Indian Express on the new “independent and external” panel of experts that has been ordered by the government to revamp and keep tabs on DRDO. The terms of reference hadn’t been properly set…

In the context of Programme Air Defence (PAD) and Advanced Air Defence (AAD), and all the chatter about Prithvi (most of it incorrect!), I thought I’d reproduce Dr VK Saraswat’s PGM report from 2003. At the very least, it makes…