In episode 1626 of Cut The Clutter, Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta and Deputy Editor Snehesh Alex Philip break down the challenges with this deal, and the future of Indian artillery.
Keeping cost in mind, the Kalvari refit is likely to be carried out by Navy’s own dockyard rather than by Mazagon Docks Limited (MDL), which had manufactured the submarines.
The Pak Intelligence Operative who used the alias 'Zara Dasgupta,' claimed to be a software engineer based in the UK & befriended Pradeep Kurulkar by sending obscene messages & videos.
Ministry of defence says purpose of trial was to engage, neutralise a hostile ballistic missile threat 'thereby elevating India into the elite club of nations having Naval BMD capability'.
While there has been considerable progress in developing a robust industrial ecosystem for defence production in India, the limitations are obvious, writes Debabrata Chatterjee.
CII recommended to finance ministry to bring private companies under ambit of govt funding to facilitate industry-academia and industry-govt R&D which may be IPR-driven.
SEBI probe concluded that purported loans and fund transfers were paid back in full and did not amount to deceptive market practices or unreported related party transactions.
Many really smart people now share the position that playing cricket with Pakistan is politically, strategically and morally wrong. It is just a poor appreciation of competitive sport.
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