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Smart Cities to Enrich Urban Life
June 22, 2015 Radhakrishna Rao
In a landmark decision, the Indian Government has given a green signal to the ambitious project of turning 100 urban centres spread across the country into smart cities ,the need for which has been vigorously espoused by the tech savy Indian Prime ...

Tags: Economic Studies
Modi’s Prescription for Rejuvenating DRDO should be Taken Seriously
January 05, 2015 Radhakrishna Rao
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has left none in doubt that his commitment to the Indian defence self-reliance is “unquestionable and uncompromising”. Modi was right in his criticism of the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRD...

Tags: Defence, Technological and Scientific Studies
India’s Space Diplomacy: A Brilliant Masterstroke by Modi
August 05, 2014 Radhakrishna Rao
Perhaps no other head of Indian state has displayed such a keen and well informed interest in space activities as Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Indeed, Modi who went round the facilities at Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC), the Indian space port in ...

Tags: Technological and Scientific Studies
Need to Clean Up the Augean Stables of Defence Acquisition
May 27, 2014 Radhakrishna Rao
The commitment of the Narendra Modi Government to the ushering in of self-reliance in India’s defence sector, which under the ten years long, lack lustre UPA(United Progressive Alliance) dispensation had got enmeshed in corruption, bureaucratic ...

Tags: National Security and Strategic Studies, Defence
The Message and Meaning of GSLV Success
May 09, 2014 Radhakrishna Rao
No technology, however complex and challenging it might be, is beyond India’s capability to develop and deploy from ground zero. And this truism was amply demonstrated by the spectacularly successful flight of the heaviest ever Indian rocket, the t...

Tags: Technological and Scientific Studies
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Chinese Quest for Space Supremacy: Implications for India and the World
July 16, 2013 Radhakrishna Rao
In a stunning demonstration of its growing prowess in the cutting edge space research and technology, on June 11, a Chinese Long March-2F rocket successfully launched the longest ever manned Chinese mission with its second woman astronaut among th...

Tags: International Relations and Diplomacy, China, Space Station, Space for Militaristic Advantages, Space Industrialization
A Vibrant Indian Military Industrial Complex for Self Reliance
February 29, 2012 Radhakrishna Rao
According to Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), today India is world’s largest arms importer with country’s spending on defence hovering between 2.3% and 3% of GDP. While India’s massive spending on import of weapons and ...

Tags: National Security and Strategic Studies, Defence, Indian military, Self Reliance, Public Private Partnership
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