Dr Kamat is a Helpless Head of DRDO because during his one-year extension he is not able to preforms his responsibilities given by GOI. Like first and most important task was to implementing Dr Raghwan Committee recommendations why because he has not had the charisma to convenience his colleges the clear massage of PMO vision […]
Manohar Parrikar tells DRDO to focues on core areas; says not to take up new projects
By Manu Pubby, ET Bureau | 26 Mar, 2015, 04.52AM IST NEW DELHI: Most of the military systems it develops face time delays and cost escalation but ironically the one thing that the Defence Research and Development Organisation is considered good at by the armed forces – constructing buildings and executing civil works – is […]
I smell malicious intention by DRDO officials, claims former Agni V programme director RK Gupta
Pranay Upadhyay, CNN-IBN Feb 06, 2015 at 12:35pm IST New Delhi: A day after the project director of nuclear-capable Agni 5 missile programme at DRDO RK Gupta was removed, a letter has surfaced in which he has claimed that he was targeted by former DRDO chief Avinash Chander. “I feel dishonoured the way I was […]
Perform or perish
by Harsh Pant Wednesday, 4 February 2015 dna The Modi government has done the right thing by jolting an ossified bureaucracy India’s ossified bureaucracy is being shuffled like never before. The most recent development in this realm has been the rather dramatic sacking of Sujatha Singh from the post of the Foreign Secretary and the […]
Saraswat in NITI raises questions
ABHINANDAN MISHRA New Delhi | 31st Jan 2015 – The Sunday Guardian Questions are being raised by critics in the bureaucracy over the induction of the former chief of Defence Research Development Organization (DRDO) V.K. Saraswat as a full time member of the newly constituted NITI (National Institution for Transforming India) Ayog. Saraswat, who was […]
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 […]
After PM prodding, DRDO looks to set up new lab with scientists under 35
Manu Pubby New Delhi, December 22, 2014 | India Today. in A few months after India’s premier defence research body DRDO was prodded by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to empower younger scientists, the organisation is planning to set up a new laboratory that will only have scientists under the age of 35. While Modi had […]
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 […]
DRDO to make unmanned combat systems
S. SANDEEP KUMAR, November 24, 2014 17:04 IST THE HINDU “it is going to be the future, it will be a fight against one technology over the other, than the conventional man against man wars,” DRDO Director General Avinash Chander said. Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) Director General Dr. Avinash Chander underscored the need […]
NTRO tranfers officer for exposing corruption
Dalip Singh | Mail Today | New Delhi, June 14, 2011 A senior official in the National Technical Research Organisation (NTRO) is facing the heat for blowing the whistle on corruption and nepotism in the premier intelligence body. Director (establishment) Suresh Sharma was moved out of the NTRO’s Delhi headquarters after red-flagging large-scale irregularities in […]
