Offset Absorption Roadmap for the Indian Air Force Offsets in some form or the other have been practiced in many countries over a long period of time. Even in India, licensed production contracts and technology transfer contracts with... Sudhir V. Bal | January 2009 | Journal of Defence Studies
Offset Investment Inflow Priorities for Ordnance Factories Offset agreements are formal arrangements of trade where some sort of leverage is exploited by a buyer to obtain compensatory benefits in the case of high value off-shore purchases by... S. Gopalaswamy | January 2009 | Journal of Defence Studies
Technology Inflows: Issues, Challenges and Methodology The defence offset policy mandates the foreign suppliers to plough back a minimum of 30 per cent of the contractual value of projects worth Rs. 300 crores or above to... S. P. Ravindran | January 2009 | Journal of Defence Studies
National Investigation Agency: A Good Start but not a Panacea On January 1, 2009 the National Investigative Agency Bill became a law. It provides for setting up a special agency at the national level “to investigate and prosecute offences affecting... Pushpita Das | January 12, 2009 | IDSA Comments
Changing Face of Bodo Insurgency Intense internal rivalry among Bodo insurgents has proved to be the biggest hurdle to peace in Bodo-dominated areas of Assam. Internal differences within the National Democratic Front of Boroland (NDFB),... M. Amarjeet Singh | January 12, 2009 | IDSA Comments
Will The Fall Of Killinochchi End Ethnic Crisis In Sri Lanka? After nearly four months of intense conflict, the Sri Lankan military has finally taken control of Killinochchi, a key northern Sri Lankan town and the de facto capital of the... M. Mayilvaganan | January 12, 2009 | IDSA Comments
Offset Policy framework I shall basically discuss the road map which we have offsets in the country. We in fact have a very good phrase called quasi direct offsets for our system. It... Satyajeet Rajan | January 2009 | Journal of Defence Studies
Towards Better India-Bangladesh relations The landslide victory of the Awami League led by Sheikh Hasina in the December 29, 2008 parliamentary elections ended the two-year old political uncertainty in Bangladesh and marks the return... M. Shamsur Rabb Khan | January 09, 2009 | IDSA Comments
Oil Price Volatility and India’s Energy Security: Policies and Options The recent downslide in crude oil prices from a peak of US $147 a barrel to below $40 and speculated to fall further to $25 has evidently provided relief to... Zakir Hussain | January 09, 2009 | IDSA Comments
Bird Flu: A Lethal Threat In early January 2009, bird flu resurfaced with the death of a Chinese woman who was infected with the H5N1 strain of avian influenza in the eastern Shandong province in…... Reshmi Kazi | January-March 2009 | CBW Magazine
