A pertinent question if ever there was one. But like almost everything else in our country — especially when it has to do with impossible sums of money — divergent interests come together violently in a spectacular explosion of possible…

Imagine giving your whole adult life to one of the armed forces and then ending your career, not with the adulation of your men, but the suddenly unshakeable reputation of a common thief. If Lt Gen SK Sahni and three…

If reports suggesting that the accident involving an indigenous Intermediate Jet Trainer (IJT) on February 8 at Yelahanka were caused by the pilot’s carelessness – he reportedly forgot to safely secure the aircraft’s canopy – are correct, then this has…

Will an empowered and independent committee mandated with dissecting the Defence Research & Development Organisation (DRDO) be able to cure half a century’s legacy of mismanagement and stagnation? That’s a tough call, but considering that the DRDO has adroitly drawn…