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New Delhi: The Scientific Adviser to the Indian Defence Minister has termed cyber security as the biggest challenge for the country and has planned to protect the country's defence research system from hackers by a 'multiple-layered secured system'.

New Delhi: Availing the platform provided by the ongoing DefExpo-2014, India's leading Defence Public Sector Undertaking, otherwise called Navratna, Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with M/s Sagem Défense Sécurité, France, here on Friday to explore co-operation in the production and supply of Navigational sensors like periscope, inertial navigational system and optronic mast to the Indian Navy for its various platforms under consideration for future induction.

New Delhi: Major procurements for the Indian Defence Forces will be made in the upcoming financial year beginning April 2014 as about 92% of the Capital Budget has already been spent.

New Delhi: The gala DefExpo India 2014 kicked off in the National Capital on Thursday with the participation from 30 countries, but excluding two major neighbours - Pakistan and China.

Is there a scope for a third force again? It is nearly two decades since a Third Front government ruled India. However this idea is resurrected before every general election. The regrouping of political forces has already begun. Both the UPA and the NDA have shrunk and they are looking for partners. The likelihood of a Third Front government in 2014 cannot be ruled out if there is a hung Parliament.

New Delhi: The three-day Defexpo India is slated to kick off on Thursday without the participation of AgustaWestland and its parent company Finmeccanica, even though there would be presence of 368 foreign companies.

When Jawaharlal arrived in a Kashmiri Brahmin family of Allahabad on 14th November, the seed of Children’s Day was born in this brown land. For some curious reason, decades of publicly money funded propaganda has ensured that people are fed stories about unverifiable heartwarming anecdotes about child welfare priorities of the Indian Union’s first Prime Minister, father of the Union’s fourth Prime Minister and grandfather of a subsequent one. What is verifiable though is that the regime of the great do-gooder of children also ruled for long years over the highest number of hungry, starving children among United Nations member states. But then, Henry Kissinger also won a Nobel peace prize.

The year 2014 promises to bring good opportunities to India in giving a big push to the economic relations between India and the West Asian nations. The positive developments in solving the political problems in Iran, Iraq and Syria as also the consolidation of the Sisi regime in Egypt signal the advancement of the process of democratic change in the region and it is a good omen for India. India has a long standing good political and economic relations with the West Asian nations and there are indications that this will be further bolstered in the coming period.

If political alliance is not only about a combination of numbers but also their traits, the next Lok Sabha may witness the emergence of a new front led by regional powers that may choose to stay together to provide greater and more meaningful autonomy to states for economic development and social justice and redefine the country’s federal structure. As top regional political satraps are engaged in pre-poll permutations and combinations, the possibility of emergence of a new alternative to the two belligerent national parties – Congress and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) – as a new ruling political front at the Centre despite sharp differences among some of the constituents at local or state levels.

A month after storming to power in Delhi following a spectacular electoral debut, the Aam Aadmi Party has tarnished its image by taking three false steps. First, its law minister Somnath Bharti and women and child welfare minister Rakhi Birla indulged in obnoxious vigilantism. Second, AAP’s top leadership, including Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, defended their conduct and even commended Mr Bharti’s actions.