By Pradip R Sagar May 02, 2018 18:29 IST – THE WEEK With the tenure of S. Christopher, current chief of the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), coming to an end later this month, the race for the top post in the country’s premier defence research organisation has begun. Christopher, who was given a […]
SC cancels engineering degrees given by deemed universities through correspondence course
Amit Anand Choudhary | TIMESOFINDIA.COM | Updated: Nov 3, 2017, 16:26 IST HIGHLIGHTS The apex court restrained educational institutions from providing courses in subjects like engineering, in the distance education mode With its ruling, the SC affirmed the findings of the Punjab and Haryana high court on the issue Also with its ruling, the SC […]
Hyderabad: Colonel arrested for sexual assault
Victim was warned not to inform anyone DECCAN CHRONICLE. Published May 17, 2017, 1:54 am IST Hyderabad: A 44-year-old Army Colonel who sexually assaulted a 19-year-old girl and impregnated her was arrested by Cyberabad Police. Police said Rishi Sharma, serving at Defence Research and Development Organisa-tion (DRDO), assaulted the girl four months back. The issue […]
DRDO working on health monitor for soldiers
TNN | Sep 17, 2016, Trichy: The Defence Research and Development Organisation is working on a wearable health monitoring system for soldiers, said P S Pandian, director-technology, DRDO, Bengaluru, explaining the varied scope of bio medical research for students. Speaking at the inauguration of the instrumentation and control engineering department at the National Institute of […]
CBI arrests Army officer for accepting bribe
Kautilya Singh | TNN | Jul 9, 2016 DEHRADUN: The Central Bureau of Investigation on Friday arrested an Army officer, Lt Colonel Bharat Joshi, posted in Instruments Research and Development Establishment’s (IRDE) military engineering services unit in Dehradun for accepting bribe of Rs 10,000 to issue a completion certificate. After being produced in the court […]
DNA: Parliamentary committee pulls up DRDO
http://indiareckoner.net/2014/12/dna-parliamentary-committee-pulls-up-drdo/ India’s premier defence research organisation, Defence Research and Development Organisation’s inordinate delays, corruption and its fancy for reverse engineering has resulted in Parliamentary standing committee on defence raising the red flag on DRDO budget for 2014-15.
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 […]
Why do people want to go private organizations? Is it because they do good work and they are rewarded? Do you have any method of incentives for good work done by scientists? Please elaborate – (CC R&D HR)
As per the reply in Parliament ( LOK SABHA) against UNSTARRED QUESTION NO 596, ANSWERED ON 09.12.2013, the total 487 scientists left from DRDO from 2008 to 30th November 2013. Scientist B- 289, Scientist C- 152, Scientist D – 26, Scientist E- 13, Scientist F – 7. Why they left – Financial reasons – very […]
In Between ISRO and DRDO- Where Lies the Difference?
Friday, September 26, 2014, 9:01 [IST]- Oneindia news After the initial euphoria over the emphatic and the most incredible success of ISRO’s Mars Mission has settled down, it would be interesting to do some analysis as to why ISRO stands apart from other similar organizations when it comes to crossing one milestone after another and […]
13 years on, jail term to 4 for corruption
Smriti Singh,TNN | Apr 28, 2014, 05.04 AM IST NEW DELHI: Four people, including an 82-year-old, have been sentenced to four years in jail by a special CBI court in connection with a 2001 corruption case. Observing that “corruption hinders the economic growth of the nation”, special CBI judge Kanwaljeet Arora also imposed a fine […]
