Ajai Shukla | New Delhi May 4, 2015 Last Updated at 00:38 IST – Business Standard A sense of drift is palpable within the Defence Research & Development Organisation (DRDO), which has been without a leader for three months since the ouster of its widely respected chief, Avinash Chander, on January 31. On that day, Defence Secretary […]
Interceptor missile tested 7 times, DRDO’s Rajinikanth moment still far
The system would be able to tackle incoming ballistic missiles of range up to 2,000 km Written by Sushant Singh | New Delhi | Updated: May 4, 2015 3:20 am The proposed Ballistic Missile Defence system is supposed to blow enemy n-missiles out of the sky as they fly towards Delhi. But last month’s test […]
Army’s fleet of Arjun tanks face technical issues; major proportion of 124 tanks in service not operational
By Manu Pubby, ET Bureau | 30 Apr, 2015, 04.50AM IST NEW DELHI: The Army is facing major technical issues with its ‘indigenous’ Arjun tanks, as a significant proportion of its fleet has become inoperable in recent months and are non-serviceable due to continued maintenance problems. The Army, which reluctantly inducted 124 tanks from 2009, […]
Jairam Ramesh’s pet project ‘Bio-toilet’ stands abandoned in Odisha
By Hemant Kumar Rout – BALASORE/BHADRAK Published: 14th August 2012 11:45 AM Union Minister for Rural Development, Drinking Water and Sanitation Jairam Rameshs’s ‘India Dream’ to free the country – the rural populace in particular – from open defecation, seems to have faced a setback with people unwilling to use DRDO made Bio-toilets raising a […]
Defence Secrets in Danger
By Pradip R Sagar Published: 26th Apr 2015 06:00:00 AM -The Sunday Standard It’s akin to contract killing of the country’s defence research establishments. With their easy access to classified and secret information, thousands of people working on contractual or temporary basis in India’s top secret defence projects have turned out to be the biggest […]
Parrikar to separate roles of DRDO chief and scientific advisor
Shishir Gupta, Hindustan Times, New Delhi| Updated: Mar 21, 2015 00:53 IST Defence minister Manohar Parrikar has decided to bifurcate the job of secretary (Defence Research and Development Organisation) and scientific advisor (SA) to the minister with the latter now expected to oversee research and development and push the DRDO to a world class level […]
Continuously Manipulations in recruitment of scientists in Recruitment and Assessment Centre (RAC), Ministry of Defence, (DRDO).
To 24th March 2015 Hon’ble Shri Manohar Parrikar, […]
Buying Hot Wheels on the Sly is DRDO’s So-Called Flight Plan
Comments Mashu Asramam • 2 hours ago It seems that DRDO losing its credibility of inventing sophisticated weapons and technologies for the well being of India. While BJP was at opposition, they made lot of cry by accusing UPA had compromised with safety of India. Now BJP begins to run the Defence Ministry with […]
Contractual DRDO Employee Arrested for Supplying Strategic Information to Pakistan ISI Agent
a youth for his alleged links with Pakistan Security Agency ISI, the tremor of espionage seems to have resurfaced in the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), the country’s elite defence establishment. In a major breakthrough, Balasore police on Friday arrested a contractual employee of Integrated Test Range (ITR) off the Odisha coast on the […]
Missile boss axe swivels glare on rot
SUJAN DUTTA New Delhi, Jan. 14: The sacking of Avinash Chander as the country’s top defence technocrat yesterday has brought back into focus allegations of murky deals with international arms lobbies, corruption and nepotism, professional jealousies at the top and a failure to deliver usable and accurate weapons. The rot had institutionalised itself over the […]
