Anil Bhat
Agni-IV places India on a new generation missile trail
In what is considered a landmark event in India’s missile programme, the Agni-IV missile was successfully test-fired from the Wheelers’ Island, off the Orissa coast, on November 15, 2011.
Indian cavalry’s victorious trysts with India’s history
December 3, 2011 marks 40 years of the outbreak of the third India-Pakistan War, which like the earlier two, was sparked off by Pakistan.
Maoists in N-E must be taken seriously
Senior Maoist leader Koteswar Rao, alias Kishenji, as per some reports, was captured on November 23 somewhere between West Bengal and Assam and brought to Midnapore where he was reportedly shot dead.
Ulfa talks extortion,peace in same breath
The United Liberation Front of Asom (Ulfa) becoming active aga-in in intimidation, extorti-on and violence in Assam, as brought out in a number of features and Guwahati-based news reports in this dail
How the Army salvaged quake-struck Sikkim
It is now over a month since rescue and evacuation efforts began following the September 18 earthquake in north Sikkim. Relief and reconstruction work by the Indian Army, Indian Air Force (IAF), Border Roads Organisation (BRO), Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP), in tandem with the local administration, continues unabated despite many adversities of weather and inhospitable terrain conditions.
Indira’s decisiveness on national security
It was some time in 1970 when then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi visited the National Defence Academy (NDA) at Khadakwasla near Pune, that some of us, then cadets under training there, got to see her u
With cross-LoC terror still on, revoking AFSPA is dangerous
Whether it is political expediency or otherwise, Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) chief minister’s widely reported statement of October 22, 2011 that the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) and the Disturbed Areas Act (DAA) will be lifted
For Pakistan, talks and terror go together
President Barack Obama, while expressing concern over Pakistan’s military and intelligence links with extremists, stating that it is “troubling” to the US, and that a peaceful approac
Pakistan Army in line of fire, again
With the subtitle “A Woman’s Experience on the Frontline of the War on Terror”, Carey Schofield, the author of Inside The Pakistan Army, thanks former President Pervez Musharraf and Army Chief Ashfaq Parvez Kayani as well as
Will Indo-Pak trade route lead to peace?
In 64 years of relations severely strained by three conventional wars, nuclearisation and a fourth war by proxy export of terrorism by Pakistan’s military to India continuing since three decades, the
