Sudhi Ranjan Sen

India To Invite Australia For Naval Drill, Risking China Ire

India News | Sudhi Ranjan Sen and Archana Chaudhary, Bloomberg | Friday July 10, 2020

India plans to invite Australia to join the annual Malabar naval exercise that has so far included just Japan and the U.S., in a move that could risk China's ire.

How India's Battling On Two Fronts: China And Pakistan

India News | Sudhi Ranjan Sen, Bloomberg | Friday July 3, 2020

The Indian military has been talking about a two-front war with neighbors Pakistan and China for decades to keep politicians focused on defense spending. Now that scenario is looking ever more realistic, with conflicts flaring on both its borders.

Stones And Iron Rods In Clash As China Violated Agreed-On Terms

India News | Sudhi Ranjan Sen, Bibhudatta Pradhan and Archana Chaudhary, Bloomberg | Wednesday June 17, 2020

In near sub-zero temperatures in the thin air of 15,000 feet, Chinese and Indian soldiers attacked each other with stones, iron rods and bamboo poles wrapped in barbed wire laced with nails.

First Fatalities In India-China Tension In 4 decades

India News | Sudhi Ranjan Sen, Bloomberg | Tuesday June 16, 2020

India says at least three of its soldiers have died in a "violent" clash with Chinese troops at a section along their unmarked border high in the Himalayas, in the first fatalities resulting from skirmishes in the region in four decades.

PM Modi's Hold Over Migrant Workers May Be Slipping For 1st Time: Report

India News | Bibhudatta Pradhan, Sudhi Ranjan Sen, Bloomberg | Thursday June 11, 2020

Over the last two months reports have poured in from across the country about the suffering of those who lost their incomes almost overnight when PM Modi announced a nationwide lockdown. Now anger is starting to surface in key states at a leader who just last year won his second term in office with a sweeping majority.

PM Modi's Strategy On China After Meeting Ajit Doval, Armed Forces Chiefs

India News | Archana Chaudhary and Sudhi Ranjan Sen, Bloomberg | Thursday May 28, 2020

India has moved additional troops along its northern border as it prepares for an extended conflict with neighbor China, after several rounds of talks failed to ease tensions between the nuclear-armed rivals.

As PM Modi Pushes "Vocal for Local", How India Is Changing Fighter Jet Plans

India News | Sudhi Ranjan Sen, Bloomberg | Thursday May 14, 2020

India plans to switch to locally-made fighter jets, two years after asking global companies to submit proposals to supply 114 combat aircraft in the world's biggest warplane contract.

World's Largest Evacuation Begins as India Brings Back Stranded Citizens

India News | Anurag Kotoky and Sudhi Ranjan Sen, Bloomberg | Tuesday May 5, 2020

India will deploy commercial jets, military transport planes and naval warships to bring back hundreds of thousands of citizens stranded across the world, in what's set to be the biggest-ever peacetime repatriation exercise in history.

PM Modi's Popularity Soars For Being Front And Centre Of COVID-19 Effort

India News | Bibhudatta Pradhan and Sudhi Ranjan Sen, Bloomberg | Thursday April 30, 2020

Prime Minister Narendra Modi's response to the country's surging coronavirus epidemic may help him walk away unscathed from a host of political and economic problems that hounded his government just months ago.

India's New Bridge On China Border Can Take 40 Tons Of Weight

India News | Sudhi Ranjan Sen, Bloomberg | Thursday April 23, 2020

India has opened a new all-weather access near its border with China to enable faster movement of troops and artillery, another potential irritant in relations between the two nuclear-armed neighbours.

India's Plan To Exit Lockdown And Kick Start Stalled Economy

India News | Bibhudatta Pradhan and Sudhi Ranjan Sen, Bloomberg | Wednesday April 15, 2020

India will allow makers of information technology hardware, farmers and industries in rural areas to resume operations after April 20 as Prime Minister Narendra Modi crafts a plan to exit the world's biggest lockdown and revive stalled economic activity.

When A Fighter Jet 'Landed' On the Highway In Uttar Pradesh

India News | Reported by Sudhi Ranjan Sen, Edited by Deepshikha Ghosh | Friday November 18, 2016

An Indian Air Force (IAF) jet practised landing on a highway in Uttar Pradesh today as part of a plan for emergencies when military air fields are not available.

Controversial Islamist Preacher Zakir Naik's NGO Banned For 5 Years

India News | Written by Sudhi Ranjan Sen | Wednesday November 16, 2016

Controversial Islamist Preacher Zakir Naik's NGO 'Islamic Research Foundation' has been banned for five years . The government has asked the law enforcing Agencies to maintain a strict surveillance on the activities of all establishments of the organisation, sources said.

As ATMs Run Dry, Government Considers Relaxing Operating Procedure Of Cash Vans

Delhi News | Written by Sudhi Ranjan Sen | Saturday November 12, 2016

With cash running out fast at most ATMs across the country, the Home Ministry has asked states to provide extra protection to cash carrying vans - mostly private owned - which transport money to banks and ATMs. The advisory by the Centre comes three days after 500 and 1000-rupee notes were demonitised by the government in a move to curb black or il...

83 Tejas, 15 Choppers, 464 Tanks: Government's Made In India Shopping List

India News | Reported by Sudhi Ranjan Sen, Edited by Anindita Sanyal | Monday November 7, 2016

The government will spend Rs 67,000 crore on made-in-India military hardware, with a defence ministry panel today clearing the purchase of 83 Tejas Light Combat Aircraft, 15 Light Combat helicopters and 464 T-90 tanks.