LR-SAM operationalised: Indian Navy successfully tests long-delayed air defence missile

By Ajai Shukla

Business Standard, 30th Dec 15



In a giant capability boost for the Indian
Navy, a naval warship today test-fired a new missile that can shoot down
incoming aerial threats --- such as aircraft and missiles --- whilst they are
still 70 kilometres away.



A defence ministry press release today
stated: �Adding a quantum jump in its air defence capability, INS Kolkata,

International figures say India no longer biggest arms importer; India�s own figures say still Number One

Calculating arms imports is difficult; for example, INS Kochi, an India-built destroyer, has numerous imported systems



By Ajai Shukla

Business Standard, 29th Dec 15



The authoritative Congressional Research
Service (CRS), which provides data and analysis to the US Congress, finds that
India no longer features in the world�s three biggest arms importers.



A new CRS report, according to

Modi seizes initiative on Pakistan policy with �impromptu� visit to Lahore

By Ajai Shukla

Business Standard, 26th Dec 15



On a busy Christmas Day for him, Prime
Minister Narendra Modi redefined the rules of Indo-Pak diplomacy with an unscheduled
visit to Lahore to personally greet his counterpart, Nawaz Sharif, on his
birthday.



The brief stopover at Lahore came on Modi�s
journey home to Delhi from Kabul, where he inaugurated Afghanistan�s new
parliament

Trade, energy and defence take centrestage in Modi�s talks with Putin

From the joint statement:



Beyond six nuclear power reactors at Kudankulam, Russia welcomed progress in identifying second site in India for additional six nuclear reactors.



Inter-governmental agreement (IGA) for building Kamov-226 helicopters under �Make in India� scheme.



Joint Study Group for studying possibility of hydrocarbon pipeline system connecting Russia and India.

S-400 missiles, Kamov-226 helicopters, Gen-5 fighters on Modi�s agenda in Russia

The Russian S-400 air defence missile that could feature in Modi's agreements with Putin in Russia today



By Ajai Shukla

Business Standard, 24th Nov 15



Why is Prime Minister Narendra Modi
visiting Russia on what much of the world considers Christmas Eve? Because it
will not be Christmas in Russia until January 7, according to the Gregorian
calendar, when Orthodox Christians --- Russia�s

Book Review: "JFK's Forgotten Crisis", by Bruce Riedel

Title : JFK�s Forgotten Crisis: Tibet, the
CIA, and Sino-Indian War

Author: Bruce Riedel

Publisher: The
Brookings Institution, Washington

Pages : 231

Price : $30.67



By Ajai Shukla

Business Standard, 23rd Dec 15



Bruce Riedel is a Central Intelligence
Agency (CIA) veteran, who has advised the last four US presidents on South and

Engine of indigenisation

By Ajai Shukla

Business Standard, 22nd Dec 15



The defence ministry estimates that India
will buy foreign military aero engines worth Rs 350,000 crore over the next two
decades. While indigenising our military fleet, successive governments have neglected
the development and manufacture of aero engines, which account for one-third
the cost of a new military aircraft. Unless we build a

Offsets fetch growing interest from aerospace manufacturers

By Ajai
Shukla

Belgaum

Business Standard, 19th Dec 15



On Thursday
in Hyderabad, a small Indian firm called Aequs Aerospace signed an agreement
with global giant, Boeing, for manufacturing components for the Chinook CH-47 helicopter
that the Indian Air Force (IAF) bought this year.



Aequs,
which operates from a Special Economic Zone (SEZ) in Belgaum (officially Belagavi),
will be a

MoD clears Rs 30,000 crore buy of Russian S-400 air defence system

By Ajai
Shukla

Business
Standard, 18th Dec 15



On
Thursday, the defence ministry�s apex procurement body, the Defence Acquisition
Council (DAC), chaired by Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar, cleared the purchase
of the S-400 mobile surface to air missile system (M-SAM), Russia�s latest and
most vaunted air defence system.



A Reuters
report, quoting a source speaking on condition of

Govt appoints judicial commission on OROP, veterans reject outright

By Ajai Shukla

Business Standard, 15th Dec 15




With the appointment of a one-man judicial
commission to look into the implementation of the One Rank, One Pension (OROP)
scheme for ex-servicemen, the government has tried in vain to signal
flexibility in resolving this vexed dispute.



On Monday, the defence ministry (MoD) named
Justice L Narasimha Reddy, retired chief justice of the

US to help India develop engine for Gen-5 fighter, AMCA likely to be powered by GE's Enhanced F-414 engine

US cites �strengthening
relationship� with India to clear engine technology release



By Ajai Shukla

Business Standard, 12th Dec 15



On Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar�s
first official visit to the United States from December 7-10, Washington has
signalled its willingness to co-develop with India an aircraft engine for
India�s indigenous fifth-generation fighter that is called the

Defence equipment parameters should be realistic

By Ajai Shukla

Business Standard, 11th Dec 15



It has been reported that the secretary to
the Department of Defence Production complained, in a lecture earlier this week
at the Institute of Defence Studies and Analyses, that the military frames such
ambitious specifications for equipment being procured that Indian companies get
left out of the procurement -- because they simply cannot

Ministry of defence targets 70% indigenisation by 2027

By Ajai Shukla

Business Standard, 11th Dec 15



Speaking in New Delhi on Monday, the
defence ministry�s secretary in charge of defence production, AK Gupta, announced
an ambitious target to �achieve a level of 70 per cent [defence] indigenisation
by 2027.



Analysts regard this as unrealistic,
considering that Gupta himself estimates that �the indigenous content in total
defence

At Heart of Asia conference in Islamabad, Swaraj calls for land access to Afghanistan

�The Heart of Asia cannot
function if arteries are clogged� says the foreign minister



By Ajai Shukla

Business Standard, 10th Dec 15



The bonhomie from freshly resuscitated
India-Pakistan relations, and from Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj�s arrival in
Islamabad to attend the fifth Heart of Asia Conference on Afghanistan, could
not hide the deep schisms that remain between New Delhi and

A return to dialogue

By Ajai Shukla

Business Standard, 8th Dec 15



The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led
government has proved as inept at dealing with Pakistan from atop a high horse
as the Congress-led one that preceded it. In less than 18 months, this
government has twice stomped off from the dialogue table only to shuffle back
chagrined both times. On August 18, 2014, less than three months after Mr Modi

How to Change Silk Browser Search Engine to Google (Comment changer le moteur de recherche du navigateur de la soie � google)

How to change silk browser search engine to google:

In this post we are going to see how to change the silk browser search engine to google.

Generally by default,Silk browser app use Microsoft's BING as search engine to search in web. If you want Google as your default search engine then you can easily change it by doing the following steps.

1. Go to the Menu button on the top left corner of the silk browser.
2. Tap Settings.
3. Then tap Search engines.
4. There you can see the options like
                                                     > Bing
                                                     > Google
                                                     > Yahoo
 select Google as your default search engine.


That's all very easy , hope this post will be useful to you, still if you have any doubt Comment.

New missile adds teeth to the navy: a look at the LR-SAM

The air force version of this missile, the MR-SAM, will undergo its first test flight next year



By Ajai
Shukla

Business
Standard, 2nd Dec 2015



A
successful missile test on Thursday, in the Mediterranean Sea off the Israeli
port of Haifa, is potentially a giant capability leap for Indian and Israeli warships.



Developed
jointly by both countries, Israelis refer to the new missile

How To Increase Your Printer Ink By Optimizing

How To Increase Your Printer Ink By Optimizing:

Are you changing your printer ink frequently? Then go through this post and know to increase life of the printer ink.
Follow these simple steps given, in order to improve your ink in printer:

1. Select Font Wisely - In my personal experience i will suggest you to go for fonts like Garamond, courier and Times new roman. Because these fonts have quite lesser ink consumption while comparing to other fonts.

2. Focus on low DPI - DPI means Dots Per Inch, try to keep it low, if you maintain less DPI, then surely it will reduce your printer ink usage.

3. Have good paper - In order decrease your printer ink you should also focus on the quality of the paper, good paper quality consumes less ink, whereas poor paper qualtiy consumes lot of ink.


The above given are the simple steps which everyone can make use of it, in order to increase the life of your printer ink. Still if you have any doubt then Comment.