Tag Archives: Indian

Zero for DRDO

Bharat Karnad | 26th Apr 2013 - Deccan Chronicle

The Indian Air Force has been clever over the years in a petty sort of way. Short-range or medium-range combat aircraft and so on are uniquely IAF nomenclature; no other Air Force has such categories. In the age of aerial tankers, describing warplanes by their radii of action is a distraction.

Forty years ago the IAF invented another category of warplanes — “deep penetration and strike aircraft”, which permitted the purchase of Jaguar. The IAF sees this sort of thing as a harmless ruse to serve its interest.

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India’s secrets are in Guangdong

Published: Wednesday, Mar 13, 2013, 6:15 IST | Updated: Tuesday, Mar 12, 2013, 23:25 IST
By Saikat Datta | Place: New Delhi | Agency: DNA

A successful Chinese hacking attack has caused what is arguably the biggest security breach in India with systems of hundreds of key DRDO and other security officials being compromised and leading to the leak of sensitive files related to the cabinet committee on security (CCS), the highest decision-making body for security issues of the government of India.

The other stolen files recovered so far belong to the governments of the United States, Russia, and South Korea.

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Chinese hackers merrily go through thousands of secret files of DRDO missile systems in Guangdong:report

India TV webteam [ Updated 13 Mar 2013, 07:21:39 ]

New Delhi, Mach 13: Chinese hackers have breached the systems of Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) leading to the leak of thousands of top secret files related to Cabinet Committee on Security, which have been detected to have been uploaded on a server in Guangdong, the Mumbai newspaper DNA reported.

The report says this is the biggest security breach in the Indian defence establishment.

The breach was detected in the first week of this month when officials from India’s technical itelligence wing, NTRO (National Technical Research Organisation), working with private Indian cyber security experts cracked open a file called “army cyber policy”.

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Chinese hackers breach DRDO security, steal thousands of secret files

 

13 Mar 2013 10:59:10 AM IST

The official website of Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) once again came under the cyber attack unleashed by the Chinese hackers.
According to the Mumbai newspaper DNA, Chinese hackers breached the security of DRDO website and accessed thousands of top secret files.

As par the report, the top secret files related to Cabinet Committee on Security have been uploaded on a server based in Guangdong.

The report claims that this is the biggest security breach in the Indian defence establishment.

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Government baffled over DRDO chief’s claim on missile shield

Manoj Joshi   |   MAIL TODAY  |   New Delhi, July 18, 2012 |  

The government of India has been baffled by DRDO chief V.K. Saraswat’s repeated claims that a ballistic missile shield is ready for deployment, and that two locations, presumably New Delhi and Mumbai, will be the first recipients of the ballistic missile defence (BMD) system. Speaking on a TV programme in early May, Saraswat said that “this system is now ready for induction”. Nearly two weeks later, the claim was repeated in an interview to Press Trust of India where Saraswat was quoted as saying, “The ballistic missile defence shield is now mature… We are ready to put phase I in place.”

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AK Antony seeks probe into allegations against Abhishek Verma in defence deals

Rohini Singh, ET Bureau May 7, 2012, 12.51AM IST

NEW DELHI: Defence minister AK Antony has asked investigation agencies to probe into charges levelled against Delhi-based businessman Abhishek Verma, by his former partner, accusing him of acting as a middleman in several defence deals and parking over $205 million in accounts in a bank in the US.

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AK Antony and the problem of corruption

KP Nayar

Wednesday, 11 April 2012 09:47

“Will Minister Antony resign?” More than any other, this is the one question that I have been asked by Americans in recent weeks about the defence minister who has been in the news for the better part of this year. Most of the people asking this question have some connection with the military-industrial complex in the United States of America or the country’s defence and strategic community.

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The Lab Optimists

Open Magazine – feature

BY Madhavankutty Pillai 31st March 2012

From battle tanks to mosquito repellents to dosas in space, the DRDO is a laboratory of sweeping ideas, many of which will take a lifetime to execute.

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GENERAL V K SINGH’S CRUSADE AGAINST CORRUPTION DESERVES NATIONAL RECOGNITION

From: Kapoor, Pramod (NSN – IN/Gurgaon) <pramod.kapoor@nsn.com>
Date: Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 9:26 PM
Subject: Fwd: Tatra Scam
To:
The latest media hot spot is the revelations by General V K Singh, Chief of Army Staff, about the bribe offer made to him for signing on the purchase order for Czech made Tatra Vehicles. He informed of the bribe offer to his senior, the defense minister, A K Anthony –a man with a reputation for honesty like his big brother, Man Mohan Singh. Neither V K Singh nor Anthony acted on the matter at that time.

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DRDO – Revenue and Build up

14th November 2011

To
The Defence Minister
Room No -104, South Block
New Delhi – 110011

Reference: a)  Your letter No 1409-VIP/RM/2011 dated 21st March 2011
                       b)  Your letter No 1409-VIP/RM/2236 dated 20th May 2011

Honorable Sir,

During UPA-I you assured the nation to fixing accountability on DRDO an organisation which has never been questioned since its inception in 1958.

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