Category : Simply Nitin

NEW DELHI: The 13th round of talks between the Corps commanders of India and China didn’t go as China watchers would have expected. India says it put forth constructive suggestions for resolving the remaining friction points in eastern Ladakh but China neither agreed to them nor put forth any forward-looking proposals. In this episode of […]Read More

NEW DELHI: Two weeks after our trip to Eastern Arunachal Pradesh, tonight Editor-in-Chief Nitin A. Gokhale decided to take questions and answer queries live from our viewers on the highlights of the trip and his impressions about the changed circumstances in the area and why one should feel confident about India’s military preparedness in the […]Read More

ASSAM/ARUNACHAL PRADESH: The eastern sector of the Line of Actual Control (LAC) with China may have been less active compared to the northern sector so far as border skirmishes go but India is taking no chances. Infrastructure, both civil and military, has got a major boost. The Army and the Air Force are working in […]Read More

NEW DELHI: It’s India’s only region that has a dedicated ministry to look after its development needs. That’s because the Northeast largely remained out of focus as policy makers at the Centre seemed out of sync with public aspirations and ground realities in the decades that followed India’s Independence. That led to a sense of […]Read More

NEW DELHI: On this day 20 years ago, a string of terrorist attacks numbed America into a state of shock and disbelief. A band of Al Qaeda terrorists hijacked four planes, of which two were rammed into the twin World Trade Center towers in New York. The United States went after Al Qaeda, waging a […]Read More

NEW DELHI: It’s one of India’s finest military manoeuvres, one that came under pressure during the 1965 war with Pakistan. Fifty six years ago this week, India launched Operation Riddle, the motive of which was to threaten attacker Pakistan’s main city, Lahore. And Indian troops entered Pakistan by going across the international boundary in Punjab. […]Read More

NEW DELHI: As the first week of Taliban’s ascent to power in Afghanistan completes a week, many questions remained unanswered. Why did US leave in such a disorderly and disorganised fashion, leaving its Afghan friends and supporters in a precarious position? What happens next? Will China and Russia now step in to fill the void? […]Read More

NEW DELHI: The successful sea trial of Indigenous Aircraft Carrier 1 adds a distinguished feather in the Make in India cap. When inducted into the Indian Navy in a year or so, it will be named after INS Vikrant, which was the country’s first aircraft carrier that was commissioned in 1961. In this episode of […]Read More

NEW DELHI: The recent clashes between Assam and Mizoram that led to violence and loss of lives have once again brought to the fore boundary problems between states in the Northeast, a legacy of the British Raj that continues to fester. And such issues exist between Assam and other Northeastern states as well. In this […]Read More

NEW DELHI: It was a unilateral accord, conceived and formulated by India and Sri Lanka, despite not being happy with it, had to sign on the dotted line. The Indo-Sri Lanka accord of 1987 also left the majority Sinhalese community of Sri Lanka angry and the Tamil Tigers sore. It also led to India’s first […]Read More