The India-Tibet border with disputed territories marked in yellow. India and China never shared a common border until China annexed Tibet, a process it started in 1950. This brought the dragon right to our doorstep. With its annexation of Tibet,...
CRPF jawans in an anti-Maoist operation in West Bengal.The Indian Express carried an op-ed by Mutha Ashok Jain, on September 9, titled “Practice of reserving cadre posts for certain services is exclusionary, must be reconsidered” made for...
The United Nations secretary general, Antonio Guterres, while speaking to media in September, warned of the growing signs of a new Cold War-like situation and cautioned the United States and China to desist from reproaching each other. There are, on ...
New Delhi: UK Chancellor Rishi Sunak and Indian Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced new steps to tackle climate change and boost investment at the 11th Economic and Financial Dialogue (EFD) between the UK and India held on Thursday. Th...
Lucknow: President Ram Nath Kovind will be the chief guest at the Diamond Jubilee culmination ceremony of Lucknow-based Captain Manoj Kumar Pandey Uttar Pradesh Sainik School (CMKP UPSS) on August 27. CMKP UPSS is the first Sainik School to be set up...
Rishi Raj Singh.During a lecture on a topic from Indian mediaeval history, suddenly a crispy voice from the back benches drew the professor’s attention with an indomitable query: “I object, sir, to calling the rulers by their faith. We sh...
Indian troops surrendering at the Namka-chu area. This is part of the series on the 1962 India-China border war that seeks to debunk the myths, misinformation and politics spun around India’s debacle in the North-East Frontier Agency.Gener...
Funeral pyres burning at a ground that has been converted into a crematorium for mass cremation of coronavirus victims in New Delhi.As the Covid monster has been devastating human lives and national economies unabated across the world, I may infer th...
I was elated by the unique initiative recently taken by a formation of a border-guarding force responsible to secure a sensitive border. The initiative is simple, indigenous and cost-effective method to detect tunnels in the border area which the adv...
Men carry a corpse on the banks of Ganga where other bodies can be seen buried in shallow graves some 40km from Allahabad.I could not but compliment the proactive steps some dynastic regimes have taken in the first half of 2020 in controlling the nov...