India is all set to receive its two new VIP aircraft from Boeing next month. The aircraft will serve as transport for the Prime Minister, President, and Vice President - India's equivalent of "Air Force One." The two 777-300ERs, originally delivered to Air India, were acquired and sent ...
As theAIPACexperience shows, powerful Washington lobbies are not built in a day or even a year or two. It takes consistent grassroots efforts and a lot of money and influence over a long period of time to build clout and effectiveness. Buoyed by its recent successes, it seems that the Ind...
While there is no carbon dioxide “waste” as in burning fossil fuels, the “spent” rods of nuclear fuel and other products constitute grave radioactive waste, almost impossible to dispose of. The plausible part of the Government of India’s official line on the Indo-US nuclear deal is ...
Before President Bush’s visit to India in March 2006, Manmohan Singh signed vast purchases of commercial aircraft from Boeing and Airbus, as well as large weapons’ deals with France and Russia. After the Bush visit, the US Chamber of Commerce said the nuclear deal can cause $100 billion ...
India's other missile, the "Prithvi" (earth), which uses a liquid-propelled motor to carry a one-ton payload 150 miles, resembles the widely sold Soviet Scud-B. Indian sources say that the Agni's second stage is a shortened version of the Prithvi, according to Gary Milhollin of theWisc...
The salient features of Dholera airport include the Passenger Terminal Building with a handling capacity of 3.5 Million Passengers Per Annum (MPPA) and a runway of the length of 3200 meters with required facilities for Code E Aircraft Operations... Ahmedabad...
yet it has continued to engage with India in pursuit of its strategic goals of seeking to balance China's growing power and influence. US has hugely enhanced its defence supplies to India to include transport and maritime aircraft (C-130J Super Hercules, C-17 Globemaster IIIs, and P-8I Pos...
On the part of the Chinese, they need to stop helping Pakistan by supplying them with nuclear, missile and aircraft technology. Its out in the open now that a lot of world problems are originating from the Af-Pak region. No one in the world has provided nuclear, missile technologies to ...
India is also very active in Thorium fission research –a new 300Mw Thorium reactor is scheduled to go online in 2016. India takes Thorium very seriously. Although India does havesome significant Uranium deposits, India hasaround 25% of the world’s known Thorium reserves. ...
Given the angry and vengeful public mood in India, the apparent green-light from Obama, and the elections only a few months away, would the Indian government be tempted to "do a Lebanon"? To examine such an Indian fantasy, let us look at South Asian reality. ...