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• Military (India)

  India: Killing One Colonial Law at a Time – After Section 377, It’s Time to Repeal AFSPA

  3 October 2018, by HAJI Mustafa

  AFSPA needs to be looked at with the same prism of constitutional morality along with all other transformative approaches that the Supreme Court holds as the hallmark of a democracy.
  The Armed Forces Special Powers Act, 1958, had its genesis in the 1942 Lord Linlithgow ordinance, which was (...)

• Military (India)

  The Rafale deal and what is wrong with India’s defence planning

  25 September 2016, by DATTA Saikat, GURUSWAMY Mohan

  Contradictory claims about costs and objectives aside, the IAF is now looking at a nightmare from the logistics point of view.
  The Rafale deal
  The Rafale deal is a perfect case study in what is wrong with India’s defence planning and purchases
  There are few air forces in the world that have (...)

• Military (India)

  Serial arms’ purchases by the New Delhi government

  21 January 2011, by CUSTERS Peter

  On December the 20^th and 21nd last, Russia’s President Medvedev paid a two day visit to New Delhi. On this occasion, he signed a large number of contracts with India’s government of Manmohan Singh. The most prominent agreements, as reported in the world press, related to arms’ sales and to (...)