India’s Defense Minister AK Anthony mentioned several foreign defense suppliers as being recommended for blacklisting by the country Central Bureau of Investigation. This information came in reply to a question in India’s upper house of Parliament. The companies include Singapore Technologies Kinetics Ltd (STK), Singapore Israel Military Industries Ltd. (IMI), Israel Rheinmetall Air Defence (RAD), [...]
Posted on July 30th, 2010 by Gunjan
With 2009 sales of just about $2 billion, India’s state-owned Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd, moved up seven ranks to #41 on the Defense News Top 100 list of companies this year. The other Indian company on the list also moved up, twelve ranks from #74 to #62. State-owned Bharat Electronics Ltd, had 2009 sales of $916 [...]
Posted on July 1st, 2010 by Gunjan
American investor Wilbur Ross made waves some time ago when he bought a significant share of budget airline Spice Jet. Today we have news that Tamil Nadu media mogul of Sun TV Network Ltd., Kalanidhi Maran has bought up Ross’s shares. Maran got a deal, 16 percent below the market price and now owns a [...]
Posted on June 15th, 2010 by Gunjan
File this under humor. Travel and Leisure Magazine, believes that New York JFK, Washington Dulles, Atlanta and El Paso are among the 12 ugliest airports in the world. We’re shocked that no Indian or Chinese locations made it to their list which does include European, Indonesian and other distance airstrips. Clearly the editors have not [...]
Posted on February 26th, 2010 by Gunjan
While India new airports at Bangalore (BLR) and Hyderabad (HYD) are quite modern and efficient, there are are still air traffic challenges in the skies and are exacerbated severely by the winter fog in Delhi and other parts of northern India. Its two busiest airports, the Indira Gandhi Airport in Delhi (DEL) and the Chatrapati [...]
Posted on January 24th, 2010 by Gunjan
In the recently published Hindustan Times-MaRS Consumer Satisfaction Survey covering 1,330 respondents across 10 Indian cities, Kingfisher Airlines barely edged past rival Jet Airways to the top position. In my experience, both now airlines offer excellent service despite challenging conditions in India. I have also had occasion to fly on another highly-rated carrier, Indigo Air, [...]
Posted on January 4th, 2010 by Gunjan
With India’s economy still growing at about 8 percent, air traffic continues to be congested. I am flying from Delhi to Mumbai today and my flight is delayed by over an hour. The new domestic terminal is a lot better than the ancient low-slung building it replaced. But today I found something even better, the [...]
Posted on December 9th, 2009 by Gunjan
The client experience is key to loyalty; Airlines and retailers in India have some old lessons to offer American counterparts
Posted on August 30th, 2009 by Gunjan
“Aditya,” the lunar probe from India’s first unmanned moon mission Chandrayaan-1 has landed on the moon and started sending its first images. Its landing on the Moon’s South Pole at 7:10 Pacific Time was aimed to kick up some dust, which instruments in the craft will analyze. It has already started sending images to the [...]
Posted on November 14th, 2008 by Gunjan
At 3:21 am Pacific Daylight Time on November 8, India’s moon probe was successfully inserted into orbit around the moon. The Chandrayaan-1 probe liquid engine was fired when the spacecraft passed at a distance of about 500 km from the moon to reduce its velocity to enable lunar gravity to capture it into an orbit [...]
Posted on November 9th, 2008 by Gunjan
India’s first lunar probe, named Chandrayaan-1, is all set to launch from Sriharikota on the Bay of Bengal on Wednesday, October 22. The $83 million mission is expected to orbit the moon for two years and carries 11 instruments on board, including two from the United States. Weather permitting, the countdown will begin on October [...]
Posted on October 13th, 2008 by Gunjan
If the weather cooperates, India will launch its first probe to the moon on Wednesday, October 22nd. The $83 million mission will carry two NASA instruments, including a Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3). M3 was built by Caltech’s Jet Propulsion Lab.
Posted on October 9th, 2008 by Gunjan
