economic Archives - Defence Monitor

17 Apr

UK PM to begin India’s visit from Ahmedabad on April 21

New Delhi: The UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson will visit India this week to "deepen" the long-term partnership amidst the global economic challenges and "threats" from autocratic states. The visit will commence from Ahmedabad on April 21, wherein he will meet with leading businesses and discuss the UK and India's thriving commercial, trade and people links. This will be the first time that a UK Prime Minister would visit Gujarat, India's fifth largest state and the ancestral home of around half of the British-Indian population in the UK. The British Prime Minister will then travel to New Delhi to meet Prime…

14 Nov

GSL launched 3rd Coast Gurd Patrol Vassel ‘SAJAG’

Goa: The 3rd of the 5 indigenous offshore Coast Guard vessels being built by Goa Shipyard Ltd. was launched in a ceremony held here. The Coast Guard vessel was launched by Mrs. Vijaya Shripad Naik, wife of Raksha Rajya Mantri Shripad Yasho Naik. Mrs. Naik performed the launching rituals and named the vessel as ‘Sajag’ meaning thereby ‘Alert’. The Vessel was launched with much fanfare at GSL in distinguished presence of Subhash Chandra, Secretary (Defence Production), DG K Natarajan, PTM, TM, Director General Coast Guard, RAdm Philipose G Pynumootil, Flag Officer Goa Area, Commodore BB Nagpal (Retd), CMD, GSL and various…

15 Jan

Jane Austen desi-style: A Pakistani perspective on ‘Pride and Prejudice’ and more

Title: Austenistan; Author: Laaleen Sukhera (editor); Publisher: Bloomsbury India Publishers: Pages: 288 Price: Rs 350 The heroines, living (or aspiring) to settle into stately homes in the class-conscious society of Regency Britain, as we meet in classical literature, may seem far distant in time, space and social mores to their contemporary counterparts in metropolitan Pakistan. But what if they turn out to be sisters under the skin? Could Elizabeth Bennet (of Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice"), or even her mother, have their equivalents in Islamabad, or Lady Susan (the heroine of Austen's eponymous novel) be as likely to be found…

18 Sep

Telling Putin’s side of the story, from Crimea to Trump and more

Title: The Putin Interviews; Author/Interviewer: Oliver Stone; Publisher: Hot Books/Skyhorse Publishing; Pages: 289; Price: Rs 699 What do we make of Vladimir Putin? There are those who deem him an astute statesman who has brought Russia back from the brink to a state of domestic stability, economic prosperity and international influence, while others are convinced he is a despotic and even totalitarian leader, who rocks the stable world order with land grabs, backing "unsavoury" regimes and influencing key elections. Either perspective may arise from the news you are accustomed to hearing and believing. The latter view, though, is more likely…

10 Jul

Decks cleared for Dhirubhai Ambani Aerospace Park at Mihan

New Delhi: The Reliance Aerostructure proposal for the development of the Dhirubhai Ambani Aerospace Park with related infrastructure facilities and services at Mihan SEZ (Nagpur) has been cleared by the Board of Approval (BoA) for special economic zone (SEZ) under the Ministry of Commerce, according to an official source. "With the BoA nod, the Dhirubhai Ambani Aerospace Park (DAAP) at Mihan, spread over 289 acres, will become the largest greenfield aerospace park in the country. In the first phase, development will be spread over 104 acres and the second phase will cover an additional area of 185 acres," the source said.…