To 18 June 2019 Wg Cdr Suman Adhikari CPIO, Room No. 160, Dte of PS, Air HQ (VB), Rafi Marg, New Delhi 110106 Hello, Kindly provide me with the following information requested under the purview of the Right to Information Act, 2005 in respect of IACCS project executing by BEL. Costing huge Rs 7900 Cr public […]
Toilets on trains: Some issues that need attention
October 18, 2014, Economic Times Blog Ever since the Railway Committee started its work, whenever people run into me, even if it is at a social occasion, they buttonhole me and offer suggestions about what should be done to improve the Railways. This is understandable and desirable, since it is a manifestation of interest in […]
DRDO chief invokes Vedas to explain intel importance
Written by Vijaita Singh | New Delhi | Posted: December 24, 2014 2:19 am Indian Express The country’s scientist and DRDO chief Avinash Chander on Tuesday invoked mythology to explain the importance of intelligence network, days after Prime Minister Narendra Modi cited Karna’s birth in Mahabharata to suggest “genetic science” existed in India even in […]
Incurring the DRDO’s rath
It should disturb us all gravely that a motorised battery-powered chariot is the level of “technology” the DRDO feels proud to pass on. 25-11-2014 SHIV AROOR @shivaroor I love this story. Everything about it numbs the brain. What I love best about it is that nobody could have made this up: An Indian military laboratory […]
Sab mei hai Hero- Arun Srivastava- Dainik Jagran
Dear friends, I am looking this spirit in DRDO young scientists, few contacted and associated for noble cause, but still search is on at least one or two from each Lab come forward. I assure that these corrupt DRDO officials have no backbone basically they are beggars and always ready/ willing to lick the foots […]
Tejas project gets wings again under new DRDO chief
By Anantha Krishnan M | ENS – BANGALORE 01st June 2013 12:33 PM – THE NEW INDIAN EXPRESS The Defence Research and Development Organisation’s (DRDO) new boss Dr Avinash Chander has put India’s fighter jet project Tejas on his radar, with a possible mission to jettison it out […]
India Buys Israeli Aerostat Radar
January 23, 2009: India is buying two more Israeli EL/M-2083 Aerostat radars. Both India and Pakistan are using radar aerostats (blimps) to fill in the many gaps in the radar coverage of their mutual border. India already has two EL/M-2083s. The United States is providing aerostats to Pakistan. India bought its first EL/M-2083s three years […]
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. Last year, the Indian Air Force got a taste of something they didn’t much like. The newspaper DNA reported that IAF officials […]
How missiles get their names
BANGALORE: How do you name a missile? Or a tank? Or an aircraft for that matter? If you thought Agni, Prithvi and Akash were random names scientists just came up with, you couldn’t be farther from the truth. Developing missile technology is hard work, and for scientists, their baby. Research keeps them up long […]
