Domestic airports across the country are bursting at the seams. And new ones are stuck.
NSA Doval, defence top brass brief Union ministers on the deal to help them counter Opposition charges.
The Bengaluru skies dazzled with somersaults and stunts by metal birds.
'It appears that Prime Minister Modi has to undo 50 years of State monopoly in the defence sector during which public undertakings like HAL or DRDO monopolised defence production and development with disastrous consequences.'
An airport in Noida could lead to higher user fees and diversion of traffic from Delhi, which has huge unused capacity.
The Indian Navy has just one aircraft carrier. The INS Vikramaditya carries just 26 unreliable MiG-29 fighters and 10 helicopters -- an insufficient capability to battle a serious foe.
The HAL wants the IAF to buy 80 Tejas Mark I-A to keep the production line occupied from 2020 to 2023-24
'Make in India' will be central to Mr Modi's visit to Europe and Canada. It is difficult to predict what will happen with the Rafale deal, but if it goes through, it will undoubtedly become the 'Mother' of all 'Make in India' projects,' says Claude Arpi.
The IAF has just 33 squadrons, 9 short of the 42 squadrons needed to tackle China and Pakistan together, says Ajai Shukla.
'The past year has yielded extraordinary results in the strategic, commercial, and people-to-people components of the India-United States partnership, US Ambassador to India Richard Rahul Verma tells Aziz Haniffa/Rediff.com in an exclusive interview.
Instead, increases in foreign-direct-investment levels; and reforms to make labour, land and capital more mobile.
Few top honchos of India Inc did very well in 2014.
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