Final trial of Nag anti-tank guided missile successful, ready for induction in Indian Army"The missile has fire and forget and top attack capabilities with passive homing guidance to defeat all MBTs (main battle tanks) equipped w...
Vikram Akula to bury past, SKS Trust to sell stake in SKS MicrofinanceVikram Akula has given up the battle to re-establish his presence in SKS Microfinance — the company he had founded but was forced to quit.
Vikram Akula’s attempt to return to SKS Microfinance rests on Rs 250 crore trustsEarlier, Akula and some SKS board members vehemently disagreed on how these trusts should be governed.
DRDO developing robots to function as soldiersChief Controller (R&D) of Armament and Combat Engineering S Sundaresh said future MBTs should be light weight and set an example to the wor...
- ET Investigation: Vikram Akula clarifies and our response
The articles, "Uplifting Promoters in the Name of Downtrodden" and "The Poor as Puppets" in The Economic Times of January 31, 2011, created...
- MFIN forms panel to probe MFIs
A statement on Thursday by MFIN, an association of for-profit microlenders, said that based on the study's findings, disciplinary action co...
- ET Investigation on MFIs: Vikram Akula of SKS Microfinance clarifies and our response
ET's investigation has revealed that the quality of governance and level of transparency in the mutual benefit trusts (MBTs) that own/owned...
- SKS Microfinance: Promoters got the better of poor women borrowers
There are issues on how its five SKS MBTs were managed.
- Share Microfin: Poor women bore risk, promoters reaped benefit
The poor women bore the risk during the building phase of the business. But it was the promoters who reaped the rewards from the business t...
- How top 3 Microfinance cos raised funds in the name of poor?
An ET investigation shows 45,000 women who were shareholders in the country’s top three microfinance companies have missed out on the benef...
- Top 3 microfinance companies used poor as puppets
They say their mission is to serve the poor. Yet, promoters of top three microfinance companies used poor women to structure equity in thei...
- Fresh orders for Arjun tank as it outmanoeuvres Russian T-90
The Army has placed a fresh order for 124 Arjun main battle tanks (MBTs), imparting a major impetus to the over three-decade-long DRDO prog...
- Army places fresh order for 124 more Arjun tanks
Army on Monday placed fresh order for additional tanks.
- Arjun tanks do well but Army still keen on Russian T-90S
The Arjuns have done `quite well' in the long-awaited battle with the Bhishmas. The Army, however, continues to favour the Bhishmas over th...
- Battleready: DRDO hands over 16 Arjun tanks to Army
With the delivery of 16 Arjun tanks, the Army was on Monday equipped with the first armoured regiment of the indigenously built Main Battle...
- Urgent steps needs for armed forces to operate effectively
Truth or fiction, technical mistake or precisely calculated gamesmanship, the alleged straying of two Indian Air Force planes into Pakistan...
- India, Russia ink $1.2 bn tank deal
India and Russia have signed a deal worth $1.237 billion for the additional supply of 347 T-90S main battle tanks (MBT).