Where is the follow up of the helicopter crash at Siachen

Defenceinfo Bureau Report An indigenously produced Advanced Light Helicopter called ‘Dhruv’ of the Indian army crashed at the Siachen glacier on May, 13, 2013. It was on an air maintenance flight. The pilots, a Lieutenant Colonel and a Major from the Army Aviation Corps were said to be safe. All of the above is now two days old. The reason …

by Defence Info Bureau on May 15th, 2013 Leave a comment »

One border, one force – A concept whose time has arrived

About two years ago, on July, 18, 2011, www.defenceinfo.com had raised the issue of vesting operational control of ITBP with the Indian Army, along the Line of Actual Control. The article is reproduced in view of the recent incident. Jasbir Sarai Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) was raised on October 24, 1962, under the CRPF Act. It was about thirty years …

by Guest Writer on May 9th, 2013 Leave a comment »

Jaibans on Indo China Relations Part 2

by Defence Info on March 2nd, 2013 Leave a comment »

Jaibans on Indo-China Relations Part 1

by Defence Info on March 2nd, 2013 Leave a comment »

Good words cannot substitute for defence modernisation and training

Defenceinfo Bureau Report   The Chief of the Army Staff, General Bikram Singh, chaired the proceedings of the fifth Biennial Mechanised Forces Conference at the Armoured Corps Centre and School, Ahmadnagar, on February, 26, 2013. From his mechanised forces the army chief demanded effective training and adherence to traditional norms of trust, discipline, human resource development, morale etc. Even as …

by Defence Info Bureau on March 1st, 2013 Leave a comment »

Throw the Defence Procurement Procedure manual in the dustbin

Jaibans Singh The Italian government had instituted an inquiry into its state owned aerospace company, Finmeccanica, on the suspicion of having paid a bribe to get a contract for the supply of 12 Augusta Westland helicopters to the Indian Air Force. Defence Minister AK Antony has ordered a CBI enquiry into the deal and has put on hold the delivery …

by Jaibans Singh on February 15th, 2013 Leave a comment »

The Augusta scam: defunct defence ministry further immobilised

Defenceinfo Bureau Report Indian it seems will be hearing more about scams in defence deals in the near future notwithstanding the allergy of the Union Defence Minister to the same. The much touted deal to buy 12 VVIP Augusta Westland helicopters from the Italian firm Finmeccanica has come under a cloud by the arrest of the Chief Executive Officer of …

by Defence Info Bureau on February 13th, 2013 Leave a comment »

Indian Army will retaliate says Army Chief

Jaibans Singh Army Chief General Bikram Singh has, during a press conference on the eve of Army Day, given a very strong response to the brutal killing and mutilation of bodies of two Indian soldiers by Pakistani intruders on January, 08, 2013, on the line of control in Jammu and Kashmir. He stated that the Indian Army would reserve the …

by Jaibans Singh on January 14th, 2013 3 Comments »

Pakistan’s brutality cannot be left unpunished

Jaibans Singh  The nation is just about coming to grips with the brutal gang-rape in New Delhi and now its collective sensibility has been assaulted by the equally brutal killing of two of its brave soldiers, Lance Naik Hemraj and Lance Naik Sudhakar Singh, while they were patrolling the line of control at Mendhar, Jammu and Kashmir, well within their …

by Jaibans Singh on January 9th, 2013 1 Comments »

Defence Minister gives clarion call of Chinese threat

Defenceinfo Bureau Report Defence Minister AK Antony has called upon the military to expedite infrastructure build up along the Indo-China border in the North East, specifically Arunachal Pradesh. Sitting in the sanitised environment of his office in South Block the minister called or a review meeting of those involved in the project which included the Air Force Chief, the defence …

by Defence Info Bureau on December 12th, 2012 Leave a comment »