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
NEW DELHI: The United States has set a deadline of the end of next month for withdrawing its troops from Afghanistan, marking an end to a nearly two-decade long war it launched soon after Al Qaeda terrorists attacked multiple sites in America on what came to be known as 9/11. The American initiative is a […]Read More
NEW DELHI: If militaries the world over have struggled to achieve jointness, it won’t be a cakewalk in India. Getting the three forces—which have a history of working in silos—to work together is tough and voices of discontent have already surfaced. Comments by the Chief of Defence Staff that the air force is a support […]Read More
NEW DELHI: In keeping with its aim of having a lean and mean military and bringing about increased cohesion among the three services, the government created the post of Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) last year and installed Gen. Bipin Rawat. The next stage of higher defence reforms aims at creation of joint commands which […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Thirty five years after it was signed, Mizo Accord remains the most successful political accord signed between the Government of India and an insurgent group. Mizoram, known in the 1960s as Lushai Hills district, was part of undivided Assam. At the heart of the trouble was a famine caused by rodents and made […]Read More
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