Russia's offer comes as China has deployed Type 15 light tanks while India has relied on the heavier battle tanks. Talks are on, but no immediate purchase is on the cards.
Chinese envoy Sun Weidong reiterated his allegation that it was India that triggered Galwan Valley clash by violating the understanding reached at 6 June commanders’ meeting.
The home minister said the induction of the next generation aircraft is a true testimony of the prime minister's resolve to make India a powerful and secure nation.
The irony with PC Alexander was that when Indira Gandhi returned to power in 1980, she handpicked him as Principal Secretary and he became her political adviser, conscience keeper and administrative trouble-shooter.
The 125 APAs include 86 Unilateral APAs (UAPAs) and 39 Bilateral APAs (BAPAs). The total number of APAs since the start of the APA programme has risen to 641, with 506 UAPAs and 135 BAPAs.
This shows the intensions and extremist as well as hawkish policies of PM Modi that could cause severe threats for the security of Pakistan. Indian government’s policies and actions show undiplomatic behaviour that mostly aims at threatening Pakistan. A professor at the University of Delhi, Apoorvanand, said that “Modi is taking India on the course of demagoguery, and this is all it has to offer the people”.
India’s overwhelming purchase of latest weaponry, as well as indigenization of defence equipment, have repercussions on South Asian stability. At the moment, India and Pakistan have virtually frozen their bilateral relationship where confidence-building measures have taken a back seat. India, under Modi government, has followed a policy of coercion particularly against Pakistan which shares territorial conflict with former. The influx of latest weapons in India, during such a volatile environment, will further add to Pakistan’s security concerns.
Watch the debates between 6-7 in the TV, More than 1 shouting simultaneously out of terms, the answers are not brief, no full stop, a real mismanagement with 75 % of time wasted. Now transfer this in the real life, india is late always. Every Indian knows the solution they do not apply.
I trongly value quality and quetiononing journalism as also free,honest and unbiased reporting which you lack in your way of reporting if I am not wrong.Please do not be anti govt ant fabricating story teller.
Every thing we doing increasingly is linked to vote bank politics and optics ! If such emergency purchases catch eyes of voters of upcoming state elections (which ever state that maybe in any point of time) , that the govt is “doing” something about it, is enough to serve the purpose of the ruling dispensation.
73 years ago,in 1947, our Army found how useful light tanks were in Kargil . After that no lessons were learnt. Neither the Army,MoD or politicians made any plans to design our own light tanks and went on a spree to design only MBT s. They neglected mountain warfare and airlifting of tanks , even after we achieved all this in 1947. With such lack of strategic insight and advance planning , no wonder we are the laughing stock of the defence community everywhere.
We can not have a situation where every time we have enemy on our border, we start emergency purchases of weapons which our enemy has but we do not have a counter for them! This happened time and again – after Kargil, Balakot and now after Galwan incident. This shows we are seriously lacking in effective planning. We plan big ticket purchases of the best items in the world, waste a lot of time in finalizing the procurement, only to find our budgets are not adequate, so we cut corners and leave out critical ones out and then that gap is exploited by our enemy! If Army decided not have light weight tanks before, it should manage with the existing ones and should not rush for emergency purchases. This makes no sense and it will be money going down the drain. If DRDO can improvise on K-9 Vajra and deliver the required capacity, it is fine else Army should manage itself. Similarly, Army should not go for binge import of snow tents from Europe now but procure them from within the country and manage better with existing resources.
This shows the intensions and extremist as well as hawkish policies of PM Modi that could cause severe threats for the security of Pakistan. Indian government’s policies and actions show undiplomatic behaviour that mostly aims at threatening Pakistan. A professor at the University of Delhi, Apoorvanand, said that “Modi is taking India on the course of demagoguery, and this is all it has to offer the people”.
India’s overwhelming purchase of latest weaponry, as well as indigenization of defence equipment, have repercussions on South Asian stability. At the moment, India and Pakistan have virtually frozen their bilateral relationship where confidence-building measures have taken a back seat. India, under Modi government, has followed a policy of coercion particularly against Pakistan which shares territorial conflict with former. The influx of latest weapons in India, during such a volatile environment, will further add to Pakistan’s security concerns.
Watch the debates between 6-7 in the TV, More than 1 shouting simultaneously out of terms, the answers are not brief, no full stop, a real mismanagement with 75 % of time wasted. Now transfer this in the real life, india is late always. Every Indian knows the solution they do not apply.
I trongly value quality and quetiononing journalism as also free,honest and unbiased reporting which you lack in your way of reporting if I am not wrong.Please do not be anti govt ant fabricating story teller.
Every thing we doing increasingly is linked to vote bank politics and optics ! If such emergency purchases catch eyes of voters of upcoming state elections (which ever state that maybe in any point of time) , that the govt is “doing” something about it, is enough to serve the purpose of the ruling dispensation.
73 years ago,in 1947, our Army found how useful light tanks were in Kargil . After that no lessons were learnt. Neither the Army,MoD or politicians made any plans to design our own light tanks and went on a spree to design only MBT s. They neglected mountain warfare and airlifting of tanks , even after we achieved all this in 1947. With such lack of strategic insight and advance planning , no wonder we are the laughing stock of the defence community everywhere.
We can not have a situation where every time we have enemy on our border, we start emergency purchases of weapons which our enemy has but we do not have a counter for them! This happened time and again – after Kargil, Balakot and now after Galwan incident. This shows we are seriously lacking in effective planning. We plan big ticket purchases of the best items in the world, waste a lot of time in finalizing the procurement, only to find our budgets are not adequate, so we cut corners and leave out critical ones out and then that gap is exploited by our enemy! If Army decided not have light weight tanks before, it should manage with the existing ones and should not rush for emergency purchases. This makes no sense and it will be money going down the drain. If DRDO can improvise on K-9 Vajra and deliver the required capacity, it is fine else Army should manage itself. Similarly, Army should not go for binge import of snow tents from Europe now but procure them from within the country and manage better with existing resources.