Navy is working on a fresh request for proposal with new specs, two months after the defence ministry cancelled the 2013 RFP to buy 4 Landing Platform Docks.
India cannot be blasé about change in any important capital in the world. Let's look at five key areas where US policy matters for India and how it may vary between Harris and Trump.
In Episode 1544 of CutTheClutter, Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta looks at some top economists pointing to the pitfalls of ‘currency nationalism’ with data from 1991 to 2004.
Troops patrolled up to Patrolling Point (PP) 10 on Monday. Though there are PP 10, 11, 12, 12A & 13 in Depsang Plains, it was decided that only one or two PPs would be patrolled.
While we talk much about our military, we don’t put our national wallet where our mouth is. Nobody is saying we should double our defence spending, but current declining trend must be reversed.
Stop undermining & trying create impredsion that India has shortage of money! Stop being a China bit**. I don’t know why Indian govt us not banning this crap newspaper.
OROP was a bunder. It has killed the defense budget for further expansion of in house research, in house developement of modern warships, docks, fighter planes etc. Cochin shipyard was killed by socialist model approach. Too much politics and democracy is keeping our attention away from real burning issues. We should have been building all our naval ships long back instead of buying 2nd hand rust buckets from Russia.
So it took 7 years just to decide to cancel the RFP?
Stop undermining & trying create impredsion that India has shortage of money! Stop being a China bit**. I don’t know why Indian govt us not banning this crap newspaper.
OROP was a bunder. It has killed the defense budget for further expansion of in house research, in house developement of modern warships, docks, fighter planes etc. Cochin shipyard was killed by socialist model approach. Too much politics and democracy is keeping our attention away from real burning issues. We should have been building all our naval ships long back instead of buying 2nd hand rust buckets from Russia.