Pragati Maidan available for Defexpo, says ITPO

Discontent grows at MoD plan
to shift Defexpo and Aero India to Goa



By Ajai Shukla

Business Standard, 29th Nov 15



As opposition mounts in Goa to Defence
Minister Manohar Parrikar�s plan to shift India�s two biggest defence
exhibitions --- Defexpo and Aero India --- to that state, it now emerges the controversial
decision to move to Goa is based on a flawed premise.



The defence

Parrikar gets experts� report on improving civil-military relations

By Ajai Shukla

Business Standard, 26th Nov 15



On Tuesday evening, close by where military
veterans are staging a long-running protest to support their �one rank, one
pension� demand, Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar was handed a 509-page report
by an expert committee on measures needed to repair relations with serving and
retired soldiers, sailors and airmen.



With civil-military

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