Rajesh K. Singh takes charge as Defence Secretary
Rajesh Kumar Singh, a 1989-batch IAS officer from the Kerala cadre, assumed the role of Defence Secretary at South Block here on Friday.
Rajesh Kumar Singh, a 1989-batch IAS officer from the Kerala cadre, assumed the role of Defence Secretary at South Block here on Friday.
Institutional stability is particularly important given that Pakistan hosts up to 120 nuclear warheads and it concurrently practices terrorism as a state policy (even though it is not officially stated). Now, given the process of natural seepage and affliction of the larger societal sensibilities and regressions onto a sub-institution within its midst, the Pakistani military, it is absolutely critical that the safety of the nuclear programme is never compromised. For long, fears of nuclear wherewithal falling into wrong hands has haunted security mandarins across the globe
JS R&A/D is a biennial event attended by the Senior rep of MoD under Defence Secretary Dr Ajay Kumar, all States of the country and the NCC Heads of the States.
The Parliament will be recalled on Wednesday from their summer recess to debate the British government's response to the rapidly evolving situation in Afghanistan.
Former Home Minister and senior Congress leader P Chidambaram said all top officials who can throw light on the incident should be called to brief the members.
It is an unsound proposal from the point of view of military strategy alone. More so in the present context where India and its potential adversaries to the west and the east are declared nuclear powers armed with nuclear weapons capable of wiping out entire cities in a flash.
The move comes as the Trump administration is grappling with increasing tensions in a number of high-profile hot spots around the globe, from Iran to Venezuela to China.
Field Marshal Sarath Fonseka said that the Islamist extremist group behind the deadly Easter Sunday blasts in Sri Lanka could be led by someone having the calibre of slain LTTE supremo Velupillai Prabakaran.
US Secretary of Defence Jim Mattis on Tuesday arrived in India for his two-day visit that is expected to boost…
The US recognises India as a major defence partner partly out of respect for New Delhi's indispensable role in maintaining…
