The Technology Development Fund (TDF) is an important Grant-in-Aid Scheme of DRDO under Technology Management Cluster, for the purpose of inculcating defence R&D culture in private sector.
Prime Minister Modi and President Biden recommitted to expeditiously work towards supporting the fulfilment of the GE-HAL jet engine deal, at the meeting ahead of the New Delhi G20 Summit.
Research Fellow, Manohar Parrikar IDSA, Mr Arvind Khare’s article ‘The Forest (Conservation) Amendment Bill 2023: A need of the hour’ has been published in the Financial Express on 05 April 2023.
The bill constitutes an institutionalized mechanism for diversion of reserved forests, use of forest land for non-forest purposes, assigning of forest land by way of lease for non-forest activities, clearing of naturally grown trees for the purpose of regeneration &re-afforestation, etc, says Mr Khare.