Why brahmos.com website is down for 48 hours? What data they want to erase from it? Is it some recruitment data or contract data for some particular RFP?
If you search company info of
CIN: U58201TS2026PTC212473
The Corporate Identification Number (CIN) U58201TS2026PTC212473 belongs to VISHRA DEFENCE AND AEROSPACE PRIVATE LIMITED.
Key Company Details:
Company Name: Vishra Defence and Aerospace Private Limited
As per official Ministry of Corporate Affairs (MCA) filings, the company was incorporated with the following directors:
Nuka Venkata Sai Tarun (Appointed on March 9, 2026)
Chandra Sekhar Regonda (Appointed on March 9, 2026)
Who is in BrahMos is related to Director Nuka Venkata Sai Tarun
Can you guess ?
What allegations have been there in the letter addressed to NSA Sir regarding wrongdoings in BrahMos?
Why a key portfolio of Naval design and Army Custoner is being assigned to a rookie scientist E on deputation which is going to vacant due to tenure completion of Director Design who is ex DG R&M, although as per earlier succesion planning, a much more efficient retired Commodore was recruited one year back as Chief General Manager.
Why the Management suddenly change the promotion policy just before Appraisal this year.
What is J R Joshi is putting in his next Board Meeting Agenda?
Why did J.R. Joshi, reportedly with the assistance of journalists trusted by BrahMos, suddenly choose to give an interview making sweeping claims while leveraging the significance of Operation Sindoor—a mission witnessed by the entire nation and the world?
Why “matter under investigation” is showing some intresting facts of removal of Chairmen and a member alongwith alleged involvement of JR Joshi’s old aides like Ex BDL Director Finance Mr. Nukka Shrivastava??? it is alleged that their companies like Vishra Defence and another company of Ex empolyee of BrahMos Mr. Rajat Verma (connected with Gp Capt Malay Srivastava) has some linkage into it??
While the government and the public have duly acknowledged BrahMos’s contributions, J.R. Joshi conspicuously failed to mention any of his own contributions in that interview.
Furthermore, the issues raised concerning production costs pertain to a period before Joshi joined the organisation in 2024.
A detailed account of Joshi’s actions following his arrival in 2024 was submitted by his colleague, Col. B
ishnu Ram, to Additional Secretary Mr. Amit Negi, the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO), and National Security Adviser (NSA) Ajit Doval on September 29, 2026.
Recognising the gravity of the allegations, the officials forwarded the matter to the Ministry of Defence (MoD) for investigation.
However, amid concerns over the apparent institutional overlap between the MoD and DRDO, instead of constituting an independent inquiry committee, the matter was reportedly referred back to BrahMos itself.
In the interview conducted on October 22, the significance and achievements of BrahMos were extensively highlighted. Yet Joshi once again refrained from mentioning any of his own achievements—raising legitimate questions about the purpose and timing of the interview.
On October 23, Group Captain Srivastava, described as a key lieutenant of J.R. Joshi, reportedly brought Col. Bishnu Ram to BrahMos and, in Joshi’s presence, pressured him into signing an undertaking acknowledging that he had not written that letter while signature on the letter is correct.
The sequence of events raises serious concerns about the handling of the matter and whether the process is intended to establish the facts or simply to bring the controversy to a quiet conclusion.
If these developments are substantiated, they would warrant serious scrutiny. The apparent attempt to resolve the matter internally, rather than through an independent investigation, risks undermining confidence in the process and raises questions about institutional accountability.
If these documents and allegations eventually come into the public domain, how will the Defence Secretary and Mr. Amit Negi answer to the nation?
The nation deserves transparency, accountability, and an impartial investigation—particularly when documentary evidence is reportedly available to support the allegations.
The central question remains: Will the authorities pursue the facts independently, or will this matter be allowed to disappear behind closed doors?
BrahMos Aerospace Private Limited is presently being operated like a private or arbitrarily run business, disregarding its vision, mission, and national security interests. As I raised in my recent information blog wherein I placed proofs of Board of Directors meeting agenda to remove DG MSS from Board.
News has just emerged that BDL has appointed Dr. Jagannath Nayak as a Government Nominee on its Board of Directors. This appointment reflects the Government’s policy to ensure the missile-related production units can access the infrastructure and expertise of the DRDO missile complex and continue to receive strategic guidance from the missile complex scientific community through DG (MSS).
Meanwhile, recently by removing the DG (MSS) from the Board of Directors at BrahMos, what exactly is J.R. Joshi trying to prove? J R Joshi has actually hit the very basic premises of genesis of Brahmos from its foundation itself. The Brahmos was raised with his strong R&D pillars as DRDO from Indian side and NPOM from Russian side which has created so many versions of Brahmos over last 25 years. For the same purpose of having DRDO missile complex by its side, visionaries like Dr. Kalam and Dr. A S Pillai has kept DG MSS in Board of Directors. Now by removing DG MSS, does J R Joshi want to prove that he is having bigger vision than of Dr. Kalam or Dr. Pillai, or he just doesn’t bother for. Or he is having an only objection to derail Brahmos program in coming years??
Is he genuinely committed to making BrahMos more productive and strengthening its strategic capabilities, or is he steering the organisation towards institutional decline? Such actions raise serious questions about whose interests J.R. Joshi is actually serving and whether those interests align with India’s national interests.
Evidence of ever-increasing corruption during his tenure spanning multiple locations, from Lucknow BrahMos to Hyderabad, Nagpur, Pilani, and the Philippines—will soon come to light. We remain confident that swift and decisive action will be taken regarding the information that has reached the PMO.
We firmly believe that the PMO is closely monitoring the alleged nexus operating within the Ministry of Defence and BrahMos, involving certain DRDO corporate directors. The gravity of these concerns demands transparency, accountability, and an impartial investigation to safeguard the integrity of India’s defence establishment and its strategic missile programmes.
DEHRADUN: The ministry of defence (MoD) has issued an order to stop admissions at all schools aided by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) in the country for this academic session while one DRDO school in Mussoorie – the Institute of Technology Management (ITM) School – was shut down on April 1. Former President, APJ who served in DRDO for almost four decades, had mooted the idea of DRDO schools to develop scientific temperament among students He had also envisaged the schools benefiting children of officials of DRDO, which has a network of 50 laboratories working on defence technology. Some of these labs are in remote, isolated areas. DRDO has nearly 30,000 employees
Of the 11 DRDO-aided schools in India, three are slated to be transferred to Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan (KVS): one each in Bangalore, Hyderabad and Kochi
Seven others, including one each in Dehradun (Raksha Anusand Vidyalaya), Chandigarh (Ballistics Vidyalaya), Pune (R&D E(E) English Medium School), Odisha (Range School, Chandipur Balasore) and Andhra Pradesh (NSTL Visakhapatnam), and two in Telangana (Defence School Lab, Kanchan Bagh, Hyderabad and DLS Vignyanakancha, RCI Hyderabad) are to handed over to other agencies.
The order, issued December 21, 2021, bi Vishnu Chandra Jha director, management services MoD reads “The competent authority has decided that there shall be no new admissions tin the entry level classes as well as all other classes in these schools for the next academic session 2022 -23” When quarried about the reasons behind the news, BK DAS, director of instrument and Research Development establishment IRDE of DRDO Dehradun said we are following instruction of the Defence Ministry which said running school doesn’t fall under the mandate of DRDO. The matters are decided at the headquarter level not by is, We are not closing idea is simply to hand over the management of these schools from DRDO to some other reasonable agencies. “ while the reason of handover of the school was not was not made immediately clear, sources pointed to fund crunch as a possible reason. A source in the know said, The decision was taken at the PMO level to curtail the expenses of DRDO”
Teaching staff and the parents of the student in these schools meanwhile expressed disappointment with the MoD decision
Pryanka Bisht, resident of Mussoorie whose children used to study in the ITM School said covid-19 has hit everyone financially my husband works at the small shop and we cannot afford English medium is education for our children at a private school, the fee was affordable at ITM where my son studies in class 1 and daughter in class 4 we are still banking on the school for reopen.
Badal Prakash vice president of Landoir cantonment board in Mussoorie where the school is located wrote a letter on Friday to officials to reconsider the decision to close the school “Teachers in this school have been working for 15 to 30 years. Now they are unemployed. The school currently 106 students who will have to travel far to gett quality education as there are no English medium school within the 5 km radius” Prakash said.
“I would like to see equal fervour among innovators, among startups, among those who want to do something for defence related activities,” Sitharaman said | Photo Credit: ANI
Nov 27, 2018 | 21:26 IST | ANI =TIMESNOWNEWS.COM Addressing the gathering on the occasion, Nirmala Sitharaman opined that there is keenness among a lot of young minds to come back to India from abroad owing to the growth of startups in the country. New Delhi: Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Tuesday pulled up the Defence Research and Development Organization (DRDO) and asked it to focus more on Research and Development (R&D) and exploit the opportunity and support being extended by the central government. Speaking at the launch of the Mission Raksha Gyan Shakti, which aims at increasing intellectual property right (IPR) to reduce the transfer of technology and dependence on foreign companies, the defence minister said, “DRDO should focus, in fact, refocus on R&D and it should be on toes to make themselves nimble to innovations.”
She also called upon all stakeholders to step up, as more was “needed to be done to nurture innovation in Defence, which could be translated into a commercially viable solution.” Sitharaman further said that the present ministry hierarchy should break the traditional barriers to identify, motivate and support people who are “capable to innovate, fabricate and manufacture in-house.”
Addressing the gathering on the occasion, Sitharaman opined that there is keenness among a lot of young minds to come back to India from abroad owing to the growth of startups in the country. “I would like to see equal fervour among innovators, among startups, among those who want to do something for defence related activities,” she said. Crediting Secretary of Defence Production Dr Ajay Kumar for the mission Raksha Gyan Shakti, Sitharaman observed that this operation is giving the “impetus needed for moving towards innovating for defence.”
“Defence is always seen as a very difficult area to come in with a commercialised product in hand. Defence is seen as an area in which probably much transparency doesn’t prevail when you want to buy a thing when you want to procure it for the purpose of defence. We need technical requirement for defence, be it of quality, be it of certain standards for performance or be it a necessity for use,” she explained. Sitharaman also stressed on the hesitancy of innovators to approach the Defence Ministry for the commercialisation of their products.
“Anyone who wants to innovate or anyone who wants do anything towards commercialising some product, which is patented hesitates to approach defiance related sectors. They would rather go to food industry due to preconceived notion that it is very difficult to even break in and then have a dialogue and then see that there is a possibility of commercially producing something that the defence might need,” Sitharaman added.
“Each time an innovation is patented the innovator may not be interested in producing it. You need to find somebody to produce it on a commercial scale. We make sure to facilitate it, make finances available and find a market for it,” the defence minister said.
Brahmos scientist and BSF jawan were handled by same Pakistani handler: UP ATS report
IANS|Updated: Oct 09, 2018,
In a shocking development, a young scientist working with the BrahMos Aerospace Pvt Ltd (BAPL)’s missile research centre in Nagpur was arrested on Monday on alleged charges of spying for Pakistan’s intelligence agency ISI and other countries, informed sources said.
Scientist Nishant Pradeep Agrawal has been working for the last four years in the BAPL, an Indo-Russian Joint Venture, and was nabbed in a joint operation of Uttar Pradesh Police and Maharashtra Police.
The UP-Anti Terrorist Squad (UP-ATS) has also raided two other unidentified persons in Agra and Kanpur in the north India state and seized their laptops, an official statement of the Uttar Pradesh Police said on Monday.
Following a tip-off, he was placed under surveillance for the past few days by the Military Intelligence as well as Uttar Pradesh Police and Maharashtra Police.
The BAPL officer has been booked under the Official Secrets Act (OSA), the sources said.
The UP Police statement said the UP-ATS had monitored fake Facebook accounts originating from Pakistan in the name of women to “honey-trap” key officials working in sensitive defence-related set-ups in India.
The information came to light after the Border Security Force (BSF) recently nabbed a person in Noida, Uttar Pradesh, and two fake Facebook IDs of women created in Pakistan were put under observation after they were found to be chatting with Agrawal.
Accordingly, the UP-ATS acquired a search warrant from a court and along with Maharashtra ATS, swooped on Agrawal’s residence at Ujjwal Nagar in Nagpur.
“We have found certain secret and ultra-sensitive information on his personal computer. It should not been there on his personal laptop. It violates the provisions of the OSA, and hence he has been arrested,” the statement added.
The joint ATS teams of the two states also searched his BMAL office and from another location recovered an old laptop which is being examined to see if it contains anything objectionable.
The UP-ATS has moved a local court in Nagpur seeking a transit remand to take Agrawal to Lucknow for further investigations.
They said that after the investigations, they would be able to know what kind of chats he was having with the fake women’s accounts on Facebook.
Depending on the outcome, the accused may be slapped with additional charges, the UP-ATS said.
As per preliminary information, Agrawal was reportedly passing on certain highly classified information, including “technological and other details”, to the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) of Pakistan as well as the USA.
However, official circles are not aware of what kind of access to sensitive information or the security clearance levels Agrawal enjoyed in the company.
Hailing from Roorkee in Uttarakhand, Agarwal had been recently awarded the “Young Scientist Award” for the year 2017-18.
He had got married earlier this year and had been living in a rented house in Nagpur’s Ujjwala Nagar.
Among other things, the BrahMos centre is involved in manufacturing certain critical components for the BrahMos missile, considered the world’s fastest cruise missile that can be launched from land, ships, aircraft or submarines.
The Indo-Russian joint venture’s recent development of the latest version of the BrahMos Supersonic Cruise Missile has elicited keen interest in global defence circles and several major political powers in the world.
The missile — successfully test-fired on July 16 from the Integrated Test Range at Balasore in Odisha — is an outcome of a joint venture of India’s Defence Research & Development Organisation (DRDO) and Russia’s NPO Mashinostroyenia Corp (NPOM), since 2011.
It’s amazing how technological advancements in India go side by side with the ancient believes that after thousands of years haven’t changed a bit. Just look at the photo – this concoction of green chilies and lime is an evil eye warder, generally known as “nazar battu” or “nimbu-mirchi totka”.
DRDL is DRDO’s missile lab, see the following
Now DRDO will deliver all products with evil eye warder, generally known as “nazar battu” or “nimbu-mirchi totka”.
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 set aside a verdict by the Odisha high court, which allowed technical education by correspondence NEW DELHI: Engineering degrees of hundreds of students who pursued education through correspondence course from four deemed Universities — JRN Rajasthan Vidyapeeth, Institute of Advanced Studies in Education in Rajasthan, Allahabad Agricultural Institute and Vinayaka Mission Research Foundation in Tamil Nadu from year 2001 on wards have been quashed by the Supreme Court.
A bench of Justices AK Goel and UU Lalit, however, allowed students of 2001-05 batch to get their degree by appearing in the examination to be conducted by AICTE but it cancelled the degrees of students of subsequent batches as the deemed university had not got approval from authorities for the course.
“As regards students who were admitted after the academic sessions 2001-2005, their degrees in engineering awarded by the concerned deemed to be universities through distance education mode stand recalled and be treated as cancelled. All benefits secured by such candidates shall stand withdrawn. However, the entire amount paid by such students to the concerned deemed to be universities towards tuition fees and other expenditure shall be returned by the concerned deemed to be universities,” the bench said.
The apex court also restrained deemed universities from offering correspondence courses without getting approval from AICTE. “We restrain all “deemed to be universities” to carry on any courses in distance education mode from the academic session 2018- 2019 onwards unless and until it is permissible to conduct such courses in distance education mode and specific permissions are granted by the concerned statutory/regulatory authorities in respect of each of those courses and unless the off-campus centres/study centres are individually inspected and found adequate by the concerned statutory authorities. The approvals have to be course specific,” the bench said.
The court also directed CBI inquiry to catch the government officials who had allowed deemed universities to offer the distance learning courses which was not allowed. The court asked the government to constitute a high-level committee to examine the functioning of deemed universities.
We direct the CBI to carry out thorough investigation into the conduct of the concerned officials who dealt with the matters and went about the granting permissions against the policy statement, as indicated in Para 49 above and into the conduct of institutions who abused their position to advance their commercial interest illegally.
“The Union of India may constitute a three members Committee comprising of eminent persons who have held high positions in the field of education, investigation, administration or law at national level within one month. The Committee may examine the issues indicated above and suggest a road map for strengthening and setting up of oversight and regulatory mechanism in the relevant field of higher education and allied issues within six months. The Committee may also suggest oversight mechanism to regulate the Deemed to be Universities. The Union of India may examine the said report and take such action as may be considered appropriate within one month thereafter and file an affidavit in this Court of the action taken on or before August 31, 2018” it said.
Real picture of this bio-toilets adventure, a feedback received by website on 30 may 2017
sir, I saw your articles on Bio-toilets and would like to appreciate for writing against corruptions. The so called DRDO-IR developed bio-toilets is the burning example of misuse of bureaucracy in India.
There is noting like innovation/research in developing this toilet. NO where in the world, such toilets are used in Rail coaches except India.
These are big failure. 95 percent of these toilets are running faulty. It gives extremely bad smell, emanating all the time.
You can ask the feedback from railway Carriage and Wagon department staff, those maintain the toilets. This bio toilets concept is presented as a great innovation, but in fact it is a compete failure.
Bio Toilets are not approved by UIC or any other Railways Standard Organisation or any other Railway.sir, I saw your 15 Aug 2016 article on Bio-toilets and would like to appreciate for writing against corruptions. The so called DRDO-IR developed bio-toilets is the burning example of misuse of bureaucracy in India. There is noting like innovation/research in developing this toilet. NO where in the world, such toilets are used in Rail coaches except India. These are big failure. 95 percent of these toilets are running faulty.
here are more complaints of cleaning in bio toilets. Vendors are minting money. Rs1600 cr is the cost of biotoilets project for Railways.apart from this, I can say that these bio-toilets are complete failure. Why Railways, started using Vacuum Toilets, with Bio-Toilets combination, calling it Hybrid, again claiming a great innovation.f vacuum toilets are proven solution, in Aeroplanes, and railways, worldwide,why to incur extra cost of putting bio-toilets in coaches. It certainly needs an extra infrastructure of vacuum system for extracting/pumping out the human waste from toilet tanks in vacuum toilets, at Washing Lines, but the cost of these infra is quite less than the 1600 cr plus operating cost of bio-toilets.
The feedback from concered railways maintenance staff can be taken from Carriage and Wagon department staff in Washing Lines, Dehradun/ New Delhi/Nizammuddin/Anand Vihar and other big maintenance stations
By Pradip R Sagar Published: 02 Oct 2016 The Sunday Standard
Prime Minister Narendra Modi
NEW DELHI: In order to weed out the dead woods, country’s premier defence research agency Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), which is often faced criticism for its tardy performance, is looking for young scientist to head one of its laboratory. It was Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s advise to DRDO to hire young scientists, not over the age of 35 years to head at least five laboratories of defence research agency.
Following PM’s advise, Uttarakhand based Defence Institute of Bio-energy Research (DIBER), which is engaged in research in the first of bio energy and non conventional energy for defence use, has invited applications from candidates before the age of 35 years to head the lab. Officials claim this is the first step in the chain of events to give important role to young scientists, as Modi government has already banned giving extensions to scientists who have completed their tenure. It is notable that till two years back, DRDO’s top 15 scientists were on extension of service. PM Modi in his first interaction with DRDO scientists had sent a stern message to defence research agency for their ‘chalta hai’ attitude, as most of DRDO projects, ranging from Tejas light combat aircraft to long-range surface-to-air missile systems have been missing repeated deadlines with huge cost overruns.
But sources in the agency said, appointing youch scientists to head laboratories may not go down well with senior scientists working with defence research.
But, officials said that hiring of Director of lab below the age of 35 years will send message to everyone working in DRDO to deliver. Modi has last year short listed Satish Reddy, the youngest ever scientific advisor to the defence minsitry.
“Certainly it’s an effort to get rid of non-performing scientists. Merely age seniority will not matter. If India wants to be a superpower, our defence research has to be cutting edge. India remains to be top buyer of military hardware globally with nearly 70 per cent defence requirements meet by imports,” said an officer. It is the successful government’s failure to build a strong domestic defence industrial base due to sluggish performance of 52 DRDO laboratories, five defence PSUs , four shipyards and 39 Ordnance factories.
Appeal to clean DRDO of corrupt and anti-national officials
