New Delhi: The country is celebrating the Indian Navy Day on Monday, December 4. Later in the day, the prime minister, Narendra Modi, will visit the Sindhudurg Fort, which is on an Arabian Sea island just off the coast of Maharashtra’s Sindhudu...
Henry Alfred Kissinger (May 27, 1923–November 29, 2023).New Delhi: Henry Alfred Kissinger, the (in)famous secretary of state of United States president Richard Nixon during the Vietnam War and the Liberation War of Bangladesh has died. He was 1...
Pakistan’s Lt Gen AAK Niazi (right) signing the instrument of surrender under the direction of Indian Army’s Eastern Command GOC-in-C Lt Gen JS Arora (left) in Dhaka, on December 16, 1971.India and Bangladesh celebrate Vijay Diwas on Dece...
Second Lieutenant Shyamal Dev Goswami. Shyamal Dev Goswami was born on November 6, 1938, in a Bengali family from Meerut, in – what is now – Uttar Pradesh. He was a shy but friendly child who used to write rhymes and loved music in h...
While the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War between Indian-Mukti Bahini forces and the Pakistani military has always been easy to remember for our resounding victory over our archenemy, the India-China border conflict of 1962 has always been difficult t...
The dictionaries describe the “deep state” as a large group of people comprising typically members of government agencies and the military with long-term agendas and goals through secret manipulation or control of government policy throug...
An old photo of BSF troops at a border outpost somewhere in the western theatre.VV Giri, the-then President of India appreciated the role of the Border Security Force during the 1971 Liberation War of Bangladesh with following words:The role of the B...
As an otherwise dull and drab November rolls on in 2020 and the memories of India’s latest victim of anti-personnel mine, SFF Commando Nyima Tenzin, fades away, let us take our readers back to another November, 49 years ago – and another ...
INS VikrantThe fascinating story of INS Vikrant’s role in bringing the 1971 war to a conclusion in India’s favour.Heating the iron1971 was an eventful year for the Indian subcontinent. In this year, Amitabh Bachchan got his first Filmfare...