Codavas want tribal status, Coorg as autonomous region
6 Nov 2015 5:09 AM ISTA group of Codavas (Coorgis) led by NU Nachappa Codava, president  of the Codava National Council (CNC), recently staged a rally in the national...
India signs contract for 194 Slovenian light trainer aircraft
31 Oct 2015 5:36 AM ISTTen years of the UPA rule blows to India’s security not only by way of weak responses to attacks by Pakistan, which were nothing short of acts of war,...
Pakistan’s proxy war in J&K
26 Oct 2015 1:01 AM ISTOn 12 August 2015, the past caught up with two brothers of a slain Lashkar e Taiyyaba (LeT) commander, who were detained by police when they were...
A glimpse of victory
11 Oct 2015 9:25 PM ISTIn early 1965, Pakistan’s first dictator president, self-promoted Field Marshal Ayub Khan and his coterie of commanders were feeling rather heady....
Hodson’s Horse: Fight to the very end
20 Sept 2015 4:38 AM ISTThis is the story of Hodson’s Horse, also known as 4th Horse, in the second India-Pakistan war perpetrated by Pakistan, in 1965. Hodson’s Horse is...
Of Confucius and China
14 Sept 2015 12:44 AM ISTThe widespread famine in China from 1958 to 1962, which reportedly caused at least 45 million deaths, was not only because of drought and poor...
The capture and return of Haji Pir
30 Aug 2015 4:05 AM ISTOperation Gibraltar was the Pakistan army’s grandiose plan to take over Jammu and Kashmir (J&K), in 1965. Pakistan’s first tin-pot dictator Field...
China’s military Muscle: Looming threat?
29 Jun 2015 2:45 AM ISTChina’s Military Power: A Net Assessment, by Major General <g data-gr-id="98">entre</g> for G D Bakshi, SM, VSM (Knowledge World and...
A new Sri Lanka?
14 Jun 2015 6:47 AM ISTOn July 23, 1983, the LTTE, a separatist militant organisation under Prabhakaran began its bloody insurgent fight aiming to create an independent...
Russia, India observe WWII anniversary
13 Jun 2015 4:16 AM ISTThe Russian Embassy recently held a series of events in New Delhi to mark Russia’s victory in The Great Patriotic War, which was fought from 1941 to...
Remembering the sacrifices made
10 March 2015 2:28 AM ISTFrom March 9 to 14 this year, coinciding with the historic battle of Neuve Chapelle, fought during World War I (WW1), there will be a Centenary...
No country for peaceniks
24 Oct 2014 4:06 AM ISTFormer Prime Minister AB Vajpayee’s peace initiative of late 2003 with Pakistan’s former fourth tin-pot dictator president Gen Pervez Musharraf, led...
