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‘India’s strategic strength boosted significantly’

India’s strategic strength has been boosted significantly following the launch of Agni-V, a missile which has the capability to inflict “unacceptable damage” deep inside enemy territory, says Dr V.S.

Tatra wants to sue Army Chief

Chief of the Army Staff, General Vijay Kumar Singh, is set to face fresh trouble as the firm which manufactures Tatra trucks, has moved the ministry of defence for permission to prosecute the chief fo

Tatra seeks permission to sue general

Chief of the Army Staff Gen. V.K. Singh is set to face fresh trouble with the firm which manufactures Tatra trucks moving the ministry of defence for permission to prosecute him for defamatory remarks of bribery and corruption.

Isro continuing its witch-hunt: Madhavan Nair

A day after the Indian Space Research Organisation released the reports of two high-powered committees which probed the controversial Antrix-Devas contract, former Isro chief G.

Top scientist writes to PM on ‘unjust action’

One of the country’s top aerospace scientists, Prof. Roddam Narasimha, who along with former cabinet secretary B.K. Chaturvedi, probed the Antrix-Devas contract, has written to Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh, expressing his distress over “unjustified” orders against the “Moon man” and others as the row over the government’s action against former chairman of Indian Space Research Organization (Isro), G. Madhavan Nair, and three other technocrats, escalates.

Roddam Narasimha to PM: Don’t damn Madhavan Nair

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One of the country’s top aerospace scientists, Prof. Roddam Narasimha, who along with former cabinet secretary B.K. Chaturvedi, probed the Antrix-Devas contract, has written to Prime Minister Dr Manmo

Scientists speak in Nair’s favour

The Indian scientific community is up in arms against the Union government for its decision to bar former chairman of Isro, Gopalan Madhavan Nair, and three other technocrats from positions in the government, questioning why scientists are being punished while the real corrupt are walking free.

Yeddyurappa’s ‘Sharad’ plan could shred BJP

Which of the two Sharads straddling the national political canvas would beleaguered former Karnataka chief minister B S Yeddyurappa pick to buoy his career and help him emerge as the king-maker again

Karnataka bypoll: BJP pockets Koppal seat

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The BJP hasn't been able to stop smiling after their candidate Karadi Sanganna, swept to victory in the Koppal Assembly bypoll in Karnataka, the first since the exit of former CM B.S. Yeddyurappa, th

BJP may give in to Reddy brothers

Two days after the arrest of former tourism minister G. Janardhan Reddy, the mining czar’s kin and die-hard supporters have reason to smile as the BJP leadership looks set to give in to their persistent demand for a berth in the cabinet of chief minister D.V. Sadananda Gowda.

The crisis facing Europe today is starker and deeper than any it has encountered before.

With the Indian political league hotting up and general elections barely two years away, (or less, as Mamata Banerjee has claimed), it may be a good time to look at where the major players stand.