Bharat Rakshak

Railways register over 8 pc increase in earnings With barely weeks to go before the presentation of the Railway Budget, the Ministry today said it has registered over eight per cent increase in earnings at Rs 70,501 crore during the ongoing financial year ending January 31. "The growth was 8.5...

BSNL, MTNL on fast track to roll out MNP The DoT had sought status report of the telecom operators last week on MNP preparedness, BSNL chairman Kuldeep Goyal told PTI. "We have made all the prepartions... got security clearance for the Gateway from DoT and have ordered the equipment. We are wo...

The most interesting thing in that video was the cost of 10 C-17's at 2.5 billion dollars. I am hoping that when we buy them and pay that price that would also include all the spares and support that we would need? That price is the aircraft only. To include spares, training, infrastructure and mai...

Local focus helps IT companies sustain growth India-centric IT vendors seem to be finally reaping the benefits of their strategy to focus on domestic opportunities, considering the buoyancy in local IT spends. In contrast, IT players, who for long targeted principally overseas markets, are still aw...

Torrent to add 375 mw unit at Sugen plant The group company Torrent Power is expected to pump in about Rs 1,500 crore for the proposed expansion. Torrent Power is aiming to expand the capacity of Sugen plant by 3,000 mw in phases to create country's largest gas-based generation facility to the tune...

Telcos dump ARPU, go back to revenue, costs and net profit MUMBAI: It’s back to the basics for India’s telecom industry. After a sustainted thrust on subscriber additions and average revenue per user (ARPU), cellular operators, after a decade, are going back to the more conventional metrics like re...

China may replace India in IPI project: Report DUBAI: China may replace India in the proposed IPI gas pipeline project as New Delhi has been dithering over the deal, a media report has said. Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki claimed that Tehran was ready to start anytime the IPI "pea...

India tests long-range nuclear-capable Agni-III missile Bhadrak (Orissa), Feb 7 : India Sunday tested its indigenous long-range nuclear- capable Agni-III missile, catapulting the country into a select group of nations that have intermediate-range ballistic missile (IRBM)-capability, defence sources...

Apologies if posted earlier..
Barak-2 LR-SAM maiden flight later this year

The Barak-2 version will have a longer range between 120-350Km in comparison to the Barak MR-SAM, which has a range of 60 km vertically.

Stalemate on mobile towers hits credit cards The ripples of the mobile tower crisis in Noida spread wider on Thursday, with several shops at high-end malls in the satellite town reporting difficulties in swiping credit cards. Already, cellphone users are facing call drops and frequent disruption of...

Opening at IGI in July: Delhi's costliest mall You will soon be flying in and out of one of Delhi's biggest and most expensive mall. Confused? The glitzy domestic-cum-international terminal (T3) that opens from July will have a retail area larger than most malls. And, the rentals here are the highe...

BSNL loses Ethiopian Tele deal bid . “BSNL had bid aggressively for the contract, but lost to France Telecom,” sources familiar with the development told ET. They said although BSNL had made a financially better offer than France Tele, it did not qualify on some other criteria, including operationa...

L&T, EADS revive JV plans; to tweak equity structure to clear FDI hurdle L&T will now hold a 74% stake in the venture, which aims to tap the growing opportunities in India’s defence sector as well as those of other countries, leaving the remaining 26% stake to EADS, said a person close to t...

Lately, we have been getting news of transfer of single crystal blades from Eurojet. Eurojet management today confirmed that if required they are willing to transfer single crystal turbine blade technology. source Does this imply that after transfer of this tech. we will be completely able to manufa...

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Sukhoi crashes in Rajasthan, Pilots safe
Too bad, but thankfully the pilots are safe.

DRDO pitches for Netra for anti-insurgency operations It is called ‘Netra’. It’s a small eye zooming in the sky to gather real time intelligence on the ground. This unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), shaped like a spider and weighing less than 1.5 kg, is only a speck when flying at a height of 50 km bu...

Some already known info, from Defense Technology International Oct09 issue (X-posted from keypubs. Credits to Rajan) The two seat version of T-50 named as T-50UB (combat trainer). This will be a joint development project with India (HAL). The Sukhoi and HAL will develop this fighter in a parity basi...

p.s. people who are discussing split orders, more than one ACM has stated that there will be no split orders. has their stance changed that you are discussing this ? Just my 2 cents.. Awarding the MMRCA contract to the respective vendor for the required nos, (just in case assuming its not the Mig-3...

Stan_Savljevic wrote:

csharma wrote:Can someone get hold of this paper?

Please post your email address, i will send you the pdf.

Stan, can you please send it to sit dot sourav at gmail dot com ...

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