A book titled ‘Rabindranath Tagore – Geetanjali – Musical Poems‘, which is a Russian poetic transcriptions of the legendary Indian poet’s works, has been released here to commemorate the 150th birth anniversary of the Nobel laureate. Ajai Malhotra, Ambassador of India to Russia, launched the book edited by Tatiana Morozova and translated by Irina Prokofieva. [...]
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A Russian court on March 21 dismissed the petition seeking ban on a translated version of Bhagavad Gita. State prosecutors in the Siberian city of Tomsk, who filed the petition, had branded the text as “extremist” literature full of hatred and insult to non-believers, which promoted social discord. Background: On December 28, a court in [...]
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A monolith is a geological feature such as a mountain, consisting of a single massive stone or rock, or a single piece of rock placed as, or within, a monument. Erosion usually exposes the geological formations, which are most often made of very hard and solid metamorphic or igneous rock. The word derives from the Latin word monolithus from the Greek word μονόλιθος (monolithos), derived from μόνος (“one” or “single”) and [...]
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The Army on Mar 4 2012 successfully test fired the 290-Km range BrahMos supersonic cruise missile at the Pokharan range here to operationalise the second regiment of the weapon system in service. The Army has so far placed orders for three regiments of the supersonic cruise missile and with today’s test firing, two of them [...]
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India, China, the US, Russia, Brazil and another 21 nations have decided to retaliate against the European Union (EU) decision to collect billions of dollars every year by unilaterally imposing a carbon tax on flights landing in Eurozone. New Delhi could also give orders to the Indian airlines not to participate in the EU carbon tax on aviation just like [...]
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Imagine a war scenario in which miniaturised missiles equipped with Precision-Guided Munitions (PGMs) are unleashed from a mother missile to take out select enemy targets like an ammunition depot while avoiding collateral damage. A mother missile acts as a “force multiplier” and to achieve the desired result, each miniaturised missile will have a seeker to [...]
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India has called upon Russia to resolve the issue arising out of a case in a Siberia court for banning a commentary on the Bhagavad Gita written by the founder of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON). A Russian court on December 28 rejected a petition seeking a ban on a translated version of [...]
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Russia became the world’s second largest arms exporter after the US in 2011, said Igor Korotchenko, the head of the Moscow-based arms think tank Centre for Analysis of World Arms Trade (CAWAT). The CAWAT ranking revealed thatRussia occupied the second position for world arms sales in 2011 with $11.29 billion in revenues, which accounts for 16.1 percent of [...]
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CSTO agreed to Tighten Rules for Opening Extra-regional Military Bases in its Territory The leaders of the CSTO (Collective Security Treaty Organisation) nations on 21 December 2011 agreed that the deployment of foreign bases in their territory would be done with the approval of all partners of the defence alliance. The CSTO summit was held [...]
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Indian Foreign Minister SM Krishna has described as “absurd” a complaint in Russia that the Hindu holy book Bhagvad Gita is an extremist religious text. Indian MPs have expressed outrage at a court case in Russia that could see the Hindu holy book banned there. State prosecutors in Tomsk, in Siberia, recently put Bhagvad Gita [...]
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Russia’s rebel billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov on Dec 12 tapped into the anger triggered by disputed legislative elections by announcing he would challenge Vladimir Putin in the March presidential poll. His declaration coincided with a call by a respected ally of Putin forRussiato create a new pro-business party that could focus on fighting corruption and regaining [...]
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A spacecraft carrying an American astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts on November 16 successfully docked to the International Space Station.The Soyuz TMA-22 with NASA astronaut Dan Burbank and Russians Anton Shkaplerov and Anatoly Ivanishin onboard docked to the orbiting station several minutes ahead of schedule Moscow time. The three blasted off from the Russia-leased cosmodrome [...]
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Russia returned to long-range space exploration on November 8 with the successful launch of a probe that will, if all goes well, fly to Mars and bring a soil sample from one of its moons back to earth. A Zenit-2SB booster was fired on schedule from Kazakhstan’s Baikonur space centre shortly after midnight on November [...]
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The Russian Federation has announced the presentation of ‘Order of Friendship’ award to noted Tamil novelist D. Jayakanthan. Consul-General at the Consulate General of Russian Federation here M.A. Listopadov noted that the award was the highest civilian award presented to foreign nationals who promoted cultural ties between Russia and their countries. The writer had translated [...]
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China continues to deploy four new nuclear capable ballistic missiles, including one that can be launched from submarines (SLBM), causing fear among its neighbours and the US.This, coupled with Beijing‘s reluctance to define its minimum deterrence posture, says the report, has raised doubts about its intentions in upgrading its nuclear and missile arsenal. The report [...]
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