A military modernisation manifesto. A case for genuine defence reforms A decade after the Kargil Review Committee (KRC) submitted its recommendations not much has changed.
The report had argued that India’s defence structures are woefully outdated and need to be modernised in a purposeful, determined manner. Yet, in the second decade of the twenty-first century, the way India organises, equips, manages, employs and rewards its armed forces has remains largely the same as Lord Mountbatten’s staff officer had recommended in the 1940s.
Look east on Stilwell Road. Never before has a road meant so much to external relations: there’s a move to re-open Stilwell Road, which connects India, Myanmar and China, and which passes through Thailand and Cambodia.
Hence the feeling of keen anticipation, bordering on euphoria, as Prime Minister Manmohan Singh embarks on a three-day official visit to Myanmar from May 28. The reluctance of the Myanmar government to open the road with India had to do with the fact that it passes through the country’s Kachin region, home to an age-old insurgency. Dr Singh’s visit comes at a time when Indo-Myanmar relations are on a rising trajectory after the recent withdrawal of sanctions by nearly all the advanced economies against Myanmar.
This vindicates India’s quiet diplomacy, by which it had maintained working relations with the ruling regime in Myanmar and at the same time encouraged them to move towards adopting a democratic system in the country. Wind Monitoring Stations in India. India is counted as the 4th nation world wide amidst all the nations producing wind energy.
India's potential to produce wind power is estimated to be 45000 MW. The wind resource estimation has been done at the wind-monitoring stations in India, which spreads to more than twenty states. Almost 221 Wind Monitoring stations in India show that the density of wind power is over 200 W/m2 at a ground level of 50 m. Several agencies have come forward in helping the country with its wind power generation capacity. China eyes Myanmar power sector. OTHERS / STATES : Israeli water major in talks with W Bengal for infra projects.
New Delhi, May 22: Israel's largest national water company, Mekorot, is in talks with the West Bengal Government for setting up water infrastructure projects.
A top-level team of the State-owned Israeli company met senior officials in the West Bengal Government in Kolkata on Monday. “The talks were positive. Integrated hydrological data book (non-classified river basins) by Central Water Commission, Ministry of Water Resources. This book is a compendium of hydrogeological data related to major river basins in India This data book published by Central Water Commission (CWC) is a compendium of important hydrological information on major basins in India.
It provides updated site wise data for 12 non-classified basins that covers aspects such as location, drainage area, population, temperature, average runoff, seasonal water flow, historical water levels, average sediment load, water quality parameters and land use statistics. Facing water shortages, Indian farmers dig in. Kai Ryssdal: There are, plus or minus, 7 billion people now living on this planet.
By the middle of the century, the United Nations tells us it's gonna to be 9 billion. Among the many, many questions that raises is how we're gonna feed them all. The answer is complicated -- a mix of politics, culture, science, and traditions all affecting the global food supply. Here's part of the science. The average person drinks a couple of quarts of water every day, but it takes more than a thousand times that to produce a day's worth of food. Today on our series "Food for 9 Billion," Jon Miller went to India to meet a man who's trying to do something about it. Jon Miller: Rajendra Singh lives in a patch of forest hours from anywhere in the dry hills of eastern Rajasthan. Rajendra Singh: When I came here I don't know about the water management, I don't know the water engineering. This was the 1980s, and Singh had recently finished a degree in traditional Indian medicine.
Not that it never rained. Solve water problems or forget growth, India told. India's China-Centric Military Capability. By B.
Raman We don’t need Agni-V, the intermediate range ballistic missile that we successfully tested on April 19,2012, to give ourselves a deterrent capability against Pakistan. We need it only for a deterrent capability against China. Agni-V is a Chinese-centric missile. The Chinese rightly know it and would be evaluating any changes required in their defence strategy vis-à-vis India in the light of India having at its disposal a missile capable of hitting targets in mainland China, including Beijing. China’s plans to protect itself against a possible Indian missile strike have to cover the whole of China, instead of only Western China as it is till now. While we are now in a strategically better position to protect ourselves against China by discouraging Chinese temptations to intimidate us with its missile capability, this does not mean that our capability to protect ourselves tactically against China will improve with the induction of Agni V into our arsenal. About the author: B.
Fitch’s Pant Says India Rate Cut Will Raise Corporate Spending. (Corrects designation in first paragraph.)
Devendra Pant, a director at Fitch Ratings in New Delhi, comments after India’s central bank reduced interest rates for the first time since 2009. Pant spoke today in a telephone interview. Governor Duvvuri Subbarao lowered the repurchase rate to 8 percent from 8.5 percent, the Reserve Bank of India said in a statement in Mumbai today. The outcome was predicted by three of 25 economists in a Bloomberg News survey. Seventeen expected a 0.25 percentage-point cut and the rest predicted no change. On growth prospects: “At present, any kind of fiscal prudence can only come from high tax revenue, which will happen if growth is supported. On inflation: “While current core inflation has moderated, it is still a concern. To contact the reporter on this story: Abhishek Shanker in Mumbai at ashanker1@bloomberg.net; To contact the editors responsible for this story: Rebecca Keenan at rkeenan5@bloomberg.net.
World Economic Forum - India and the World: Scenarios to 2025. Into the future, boldly.