NEW DELHI: India today successfully test-launched Agni-5, its longest range ballistic missile, for the third time off the Odisha coast. The missile was launched from a canister from Wheeler Island, giving it higher road mobility. The three stage, solid propellant “missile was test-fired from a mobile launcher from the launch complex-4 of the Integrated Test […]
RTI – PMO – Interact with Hon’ble Prime Minister of India
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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 […]
DRDO chief booted out 16 months before end of tenure
Hidustan Times – Rahul Singh, Hindustan Times New Delhi, January 13, 2015 The government on Tuesday sacked Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) chief Avinash Chander, putting up the exit order on the Department of Personnel and Training website even before informing him. “I am hearing this from you. It has come as a shock […]
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 […]
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.
DRDO under Parliament scanner; dna accesses House committee documents rapping organisation for shoddy research
Monday, 22 December 2014 – 7:10am IST | Place: New Delhi | Agency: dna New Delhi: India’s premier defence research organisation – Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) – is under Parliament scanner. Shoddy research, inordinate delays, corruption and its fancy for reverse engineering have resulted in the Parliamentary standing committee on defence raising the […]
Request for the sanction of fund from Prime Minister’s relief fund for filing PIL
To 9th December 2014 Honorable Shri Narendra Modi Prime Minister PMO, Room No -102 South Block New Delhi-110011 SUBJECT: Request for the sanction of fund from Prime Minister’s relief fund for filing PIL Honorable Sir, The foul smell coming out of DRDO in particular the misuse of government funds and misinterpretation of government […]
DRDO Greets New Defence Minister With Successful LRSAM Test
By Hemant Kumar Rout | ENS Published: 10th November 2014 -The Indian Express BALASORE: Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) on Monday greeted new Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar with the successful test firing of new generation state-of-the-art long range surface-to-air missile (LRSAM) Barak-8. Defence sources said the missile, developed jointly by the DRDO and Israel […]
Sh Avinash Chander’s, DG, DRDO, SA to RM, Secretary, DRD, Contractual Appointment
To 2nd December 2014 Hon’ble Shri Manohar Parrikar, Defence Minister, Room No 104, South Block, MoD, New Delhi-110011 SUBJECT : DRDO CHIEF ON CONTRACT REFERENCE Letter No. 12/9/2013-EO(SM-I), Government of India, Secretariat of the Appointment Committee of Cabinet, Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions , dated 31 May 2013 regarding The appointment of […]