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Defence Editor, The Times of India (@timesofindia). Strategic Affairs|Politics|Films|Books|Cartoons|Dogs. Views personal. RTs not endorsements!
New Delhi, India
Joined February 2011
With #NuclearWeapons once again being brandished in the #RussiaUkraineWar, here is an opinion piece I wrote in @timesofindia in March. For India, strategic realpolitik dictates that the Buddha must keep on smiling…
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Happy #NationalPressDay Journalism is all about holding people in power accountable for the greater public good, not cheerleading or conforming!
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India & France will on Sunday kickoff off their bilateral air combat exercise #Garuda at Mont-de-Marsan, France. IAF has deployed Sukhoi-30MKI jets, backed by IL-78 refuellers and C-17 strategic airlifters, for the exercise from Nov 16 to 27.
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#BlastFromThePast I reported around this time in 2016 that India had finally broken the #Bofors jinx with the CCS finally clearing the $737 million deal with US for 145 M-777 ultralight howitzers. M-777s performed well during #OperationSindoor, much like Bofors during #Kargil!
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Interesting. The Army’s 4 ‘Gajraj’ Corps deploys an indigenous high-altitude #MonoRail system for logistical supply at 16,000-feet. It’s capable of transporting 300+ kg of load in a single run to remote posts
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DRDO says new generation of man-portable autonomous underwater vehicles, with side-scan sonars & underwater cameras for detection & classification of mines, have been successfully developed by the Naval Science & Technological Laboratory, Visakhapatnam
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Still early but trends show NDA running away with the #BiharElection2025 Both BJP & JDU ahead of RJD now
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Still very early trends in #BiharElection2025 RJD and BJP neck & neck But NDA far ahead of MGB
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Learnt a new word today: Karoshi 過労死 Means “death from overwork” in Japanese!
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From airlift & force projection to mountain warfare manoeuvres & multi-domain integrated operations, the #PoorviPrachandPrahar exercise aims to validate rapid mobilisation, operational logistics and precision-strike capabilities along the LAC in Arunachal Pradesh
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The three commanders-in-chief, Lt Gen Dhiraj Seth (Southern Army Command), Vice Admiral Krishna Swaminathan (Western Naval Command) & Air Marshal Nagesh Kapoor (SouthWestern Air Command), embarked aircraft carrier INS Vikrant yesterday to review the ongoing #Trishul Exercise
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China has assiduously upgraded all its airbases facing India over the last five years to offset the terrain constraints due to high-altitude and rarefied air, which limits the weapon and fuel-carrying capacity of aircraft https://t.co/fRapAEgMNO
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India News: India has boosted its military strength in eastern Ladakh with the operationalization of the new Nyoma airbase. This strategic move enhances troop and
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In a major booster shot for military capabilities in #EasternLadakh, India operationalises new #Nyoma airbase close to frontier with China, even as a large Army exercise #PoorviPrachandPrahar’ is now underway in #ArunachalPradesh on eastern front. #IndiaChinaBorderStandOff
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Shameful conduct by policemen! https://t.co/bc4DnyfRA5
At 4 pm driving with my wife on the Zirakpur flyover. Two Punjab Police jeeps escorting a VIP towards Ambala come from behind with sirens blaring. Slowed the vehicle to let the first vehicle pass, the VIP vehicle perhaps took three additional seconds to pass because there was
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