People say it is not transparent. Four times, Parliament has discussed it clause by clause. It is the most-transparent, most-written-about and most-analyzed agreement in the history of India. America is signing this deal for the same reason. It is doing it in its self-interest.
The Naresh Chandra Committee has observed that the physical strength of the Department has not kept pace with the increased strength of companies in India
'I would like the fleet acquisition to materialise at the earliest. It is a high priority item.'
About 70,000 employees consisting of all unions in the civil aviation sector, including Indian Airlines and Air-India, have threatened an agitation
Will the external affairs minister's foreign travels end up affecting his chances at the hustings?
Rahul Bajaj was transparent, outspoken, and not ready to bend the rules, says R C Bhargava.
The collegium, also comprising Justices Sanjay Kishan Kaul and Sanjiv Khanna, met on Thursday and its decision was uploaded on the apex court website.
Will this team of 12 change the way films are certified in India?
Mumbai University Vice-Chancellor Rajan Welukar was on Thursday directed to abstain from attending the office and discharging his duties as the VC with immediate effect, a few months before his retirement.
Small aircraft operators want better infra at regional airports.
In a politically-significant move, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has reconstituted a government committee on commemoration of the 125th birth anniversary of Jawaharlal Nehru which will be headed by him, replacing his predecessor Manmohan Singh.
A high-level committee set up to examine the gaps in the country's security system in the wake of the Kargil War in 1999 had called for appointment of a Chief of Defence Staff as a single-point military adviser to the defence minister.
Police have booked more than 10 people for 'promoting enmity' after they allegedly burnt photocopies of the pages of Ramcharitmanas in the Vrindavan area of Lucknow on Sunday.
Officers responsible for preparing budgets say their detailed costing projections are mostly ignored. The defence ministry simply takes the previous year's budgetary allocations for each service and adds a small percentage to those.
Noted lyricist Prasoon Joshi will replace him as the chairman of the Central Board of Film Certification.
Gen Rawat is due for retirement on December 31 and top government sources said, if everything goes according to plan, then the government would name him as the country's first CDS before he hangs up his boots.
Lobbying on the Hill is time consuming and cumbersome, but very effective to influence US government policies, asserts Ambassador T P Sreenivasan, deputy chief of mission at the Indian embassy in Washington, DC after the 1998 nuclear tests and during the Kargil War.
Would Ukraine be such a pushover if it had that nuclear stockpile?' asks Shekhar Gupta.
The CDS will be senior to the service chiefs and his primary role will be to work towards increasing operational coordination among the army, the navy or the air force and deal with India's national security with a comprehensive approach.
An insecure political class, with little knowledge of the military, has unquestioningly internalised the fear that a powerful tri-service chief would threaten democracy, says Ajai Shukla.
Gen Bipin Rawat's appointment, first as army chief superseding two other army commanders, and then as CDS, was the consequence of his close personal rapport with National Security Advisor Ajit Doval. Now, with General Rawat gone and nobody named to replace him as CDS, it is evident that no other top military officer enjoys that relationship with Doval, observes Ajai Shukla.
The US has taken the first step to open channels of communications with a leader it had so far refused to engage with, at least openly.
While there is no change in the strength of the Modi-led CCPA over its two tenures, what has changed is its profile.
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