Pakistan’s status as a venue for international sports and Lahore’s reputation as the queen of the undivided, and later partitioned, Punjab was severely marred after extremists attacked the bus carryin

It was indeed a rare treat for spectators at the Republic Day parade 2012 to watch sniffer dogs marching with the a tableau of the Army’s Remount Veterinary Corps (RVC), which is celebrating its Golde

It was indeed a rare treat for spectators at the Republic Day parade 2012 to watch sniffer dogs marching with the a tableau of the Army’s Remount Veterinary Corps (RVC), which is celebrating its Golde

The most colourful event ever since friendly foreign countries’ armies began joint exercises with Indian Army, a trend steadily increasing in frequency and force post-9/11, was Holi played by the Indian and the US Armies’ personnel during Exercise Yudh Abhyas 2011-2012. For American soldiers, on whose faces the red, yellow and green dry colours got quite highlighted, it was undoubtedly a unique experience. The US troops were from 2nd Squadron, 14th Cavalry Regiment, 25th Infantry Division, US Army Pacific (USARPAC), Hawaii, along with a platoon of Stryker Recon, Armoured Personnel Carriers and support equipment, exercised together with their Indian Army counterparts at Mahajan ranges in Rajasthan’s desert.

On January 10, 2012, NSCN(I-M) chairman Isak Chisi Swu and general secretary Thuingaleng Muivah were on their way from their camp at Hebron to Swu’s hometown Zunheboto in a convoy of about 70 vehicles when they were stopped and prevented from going further by Assam Rifles personnel. Expressing anger over the incident, former “military chief” of NSCN(I-M) V.S. Atem said in a press conference later in Dimapur that such restriction by ministry of home affairs amounted to violation of ground rules of the ceasefire.

Deepa Malik, 42, was recently featured for the third time in the Limca Book of Records as she became the first paraplegic woman to drive over one of the highest motorable roads in the world.

Within days of the arrival of the first Army unit landing in Chhattisgarh’s Bastar region for the first time, to set up the training area there, on June 9, 2011, Maoists launched their most deadly attack in Dantewada district, using nearly a tonne of explosives — the highest ever — blowing up an anti-landmine vehicle and killing 10 policemen. Earlier the same day, the terrorists gunned down five policemen in Narayanpur district and in another raid later in Dantewada district, they attacked a CRPF camp killing three personnel. The forest where they gunned down five policemen in Narayanpur district is adjacent to the one allotted by Chattisgarh government to the Army as a training area.

Former US President Bill Clinton’s visit to India in March 2000 was indeed significant in some aspects and eventful. While this visit marked a new chapter in India-US relations, it also got marked by the massacre of 35 Sikhs at Chattisinghpora in Kashmir on March 20. Mr Clinton’s visit to Pakistan thereafter stood out for its stark contrast.

As we touched down at Agartala airport last evening, a flush of emotions overwhelmed me as I recalled the tremendous sacrifices during our glorious struggle for independence,” said Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wajed, in a voice choked with emotion, after receiving the degree of Doctor of Literature by Tripura Central University for her “great contribution to the protection of multicultural democracy and peace” from vice-president Hamid Ansari at Agartala on January 12, 2012.

Two recent developments marking a new low in the plummeting US-Pak relationship following the killing of Osama bin Laden in the meticulously planned operation by the US special forces on May 2, 2011 h