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Business Standard
4 days ago
- Business
- Business Standard
Why India's defence-industrial ecosystem remains in the State's hands
The country has one of the largest defence-industrial bases in the developing world: 16 DPSUs, over 430 licensed companies, about 16,000 micro, small, and medium enterprises, and 46 DRDO labs Bhaswar Kumar Listen to This Article Dozens of wheeled self-propelled artillery systems stood ready for export at Bharat Forge's Pune factory last year. While they weren't on the Indian Army's shopping list, another was: The 155-millimetre 52-calibre Advanced Towed Artillery Gun System (ATAGS), developed by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) with Bharat Forge subsidiary Kalyani Strategic Systems Ltd (KSSL) and Tata Advanced Systems Ltd (TASL). The first shot was fired in 2016. Yet the gun had no domestic order by summer 2024, despite extensive trials and an initial government nod for 307 guns in March 2023. KSSL's leadership was still confident the ATAGS' journey
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Business Standard
4 days ago
- Politics
- Business Standard
'The India-Pakistan hyphen disappeared in 1999 and hasn't returned'
Business Standard presents the inaugural edition of the Blueprint Podcast Bhaswar Kumar Listen to This Article With time having clarified much of the disinformation surrounding Operation Sindoor, and early analyses now exhausted, India's last High Commissioner to Pakistan and later envoy to Canada, Ajay Bisaria, speaks about apprehensions of an India-Pakistan rehyphenation, the role diplomacy can play in cementing battlefield gains, and what might lie ahead with China. With Operation Sindoor paused, who emerged as winners and losers? This conflict played out across three domains: military foremost but also diplomatic and informational. In the military domain, India clearly had a battlefield advantage and dominated not just the conflict itself but also the escalation ladder.
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Business Standard
27-05-2025
- Business
- Business Standard
National security: How India can secure much-needed funds for defence
Experts say increasing the defence budget as a share of GDP even by ten basis points could significantly increase access to funds Ruchika Chitravanshi Bhaswar Kumar Delhi Listen to This Article Following the national security challenges that emerged after the Pulwama terror attack in February 2019, the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government that year issued additional terms of reference for the 15th Finance Commission (FFC). In July 2019, as part of the reference, the finance ministry asked the FFC to examine whether a separate mechanism for funding defence and internal security ought to be set up and, if so, how such a mechanism should be operationalised. Six years later, in the wake of the Pahalgam terrorist attack on April 22 and subsequent military conflict between India and Pakistan after the Indian
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Business Standard
14-05-2025
- Politics
- Business Standard
Operation Sindoor showcased national air defence capability: Govt sources
India's air defence grid countered the multi-domain threat posed by Pakistan, ranging from hard-to-detect drones to high-speed missiles Bhaswar Kumar New Delhi Listen to This Article Indians witnessed the operational demonstration of the country's integrated national air defence capability during the almost four-day-long Operation Sindoor, government sources said on Wednesday, adding that these capabilities were demonstrated during some of the most intense exchanges in the air and missile defence domain. Indian forces successfully neutralised Pakistani attack in the wake of the May 7 strikes on terrorist camps in response to the April 22 Pahalgam terrorist attack. 'What made it challenging was the multi-domain nature of the threat, which ranged from slow-speed, low radar cross-section (RCS) drones to high-speed projectiles launched from stand-off distances,' explained the sources,
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Business Standard
07-05-2025
- Business Standard
'Justice is served': Indian Army strikes nine terror camps in Pak and PoJK
The attacks on multiple targets across Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir under Operation Sindoor were reportedly conducted jointly by the Indian Army and Indian Air Force Bhaswar Kumar
