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Ex-DRDO chief VK Saraswat slams Shivshankar Menon for 'erroneous' remarks on A-SAT tests during UPA regime
• 6 years agoFormer NSA Shivshankar Menon’s comments that UPA never sought permission to test an A-SAT missile are 'erroneous', said ex-DRDO chief Dr VK Saraswat.
Peace talks with Pakistan will be futile, Kashmir an excuse for neighbouring army to remain in control, says former RAW chief
• 7 years agoThe Kashmir issue is now merely an "excuse" propped by the Pakistan Army to remain in control, said former RAW chief Vikram Sood
Hullabaloo over India's no-first-use nuclear policy is a case of making a mountain of a molehill
Jaideep Prabhu123 • 8 years agoThere has again been speculation recently about India's nuclear doctrine and the value of its no first-use-posture
Agni trials: By threatening India over test-firing of ICBMs, China has revealed its insecurity
Sreemoy Talukdar • 8 years agoIndia's test-firing of DRDO-developed long-range weaponry that may carry nuclear weaponry deep into Chinese territory seems to have touched a raw nerve that prompted Beijing to launch an open threat and use the one card that it prefers to hide beneath its sleeves — Pakistan.
Chief of Defence Staff coming? A flood of questions on 'when' and 'who' but still no answers
Pckatoch • 8 years agoWhat the country needs is a CDS with full operational powers and HQ IDS getting fully merged with the Ministry of Defence.
Dance of the Dragon: Why India is in urgent need of a new China policy
Sreemoy Talukdar • 8 years agoThere are increasing signs now that the balance of power between India and China has changed.
Pakistan's polity does not have capacity to sustain normal ties with India: Shivshankar Menon
• 8 years agoPakistan's polity does not have the capacity to sustain a normal relationship with India, former foreign secretary and NSA Shivshankar Menon said.
Real threats to India are communal and social violence, not Pakistan or China: Former NSA
• 8 years agoThe real threats to India are "internal" and emanate from communal and social violence, not from outside forces such as Pakistan or China, said ex-NSA.
China-India ties are under stress, need recalibration: Former NSA Shivshankar Menon
• 8 years agoChina-India relationship, which is under stress, needs to be "recalibrated", said former NSA Shivshankar Menon.
Could 26/11 Mumbai attacks have been averted? Report says spy agencies missed big clues
Fp Archives • 10 years agoThe 26/11 Mumbai attacks happened as a result of one of the "most devastating near-misses in the history of spycraft", says a report.