Namani Vignesh Writes: By May 1, the ‘Red Beacon’ culture will take a back seat, as a part of center’s decision to remove red beacons from all vehicles, except the ones used by emergency services.

Sanjay Kumar writes: The Chinese Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology has made ground breaking progress in developing technology to send satellites into space via rockets delivered from Chinese aeroplanes. The Y-20 strategic transport plane is likely to be used for this purpose; once the plane reaches certain height it would release the rocket from its fuselage.

IS Panjrath Writes:Vipin Narang, author and Mitsui Career Development Associate Professor of Political Science at MIT and a member of MIT’s Security Studies Program, set the cat among the pigeons by suggesting that India’s nuclear strategy, if not the doctrine, might be undergoing some significant changes.Narang’s analytical U-turn is not an isolated one-off observation.

Sandeep Jain Writes: Recently there were newspaper reports about Pakistan contemplating inclusion of Gilgit-Baltistan as another province of Pakistan. Pakistan it has become a catch 22 situation wherein, if they retain status quo then CPEC passes through disputed territory and India’s objections to CPEC gain legitimacy. On the other hand, if Pakistan declares Gilgit-Baltistan to be its province then it dilutes its own stance on J&K.