Chennai: Defence Minister Rajnath Singh has commissioned indigenously built Indian Coast Guard Ship ‘Vigraha’ in Chennai on August 28.Terming it an important step towards achieving ‘AatmaNirbhar Bharat’, he said the ship is a ...
Rishi Raj Singh.During a lecture on a topic from Indian mediaeval history, suddenly a crispy voice from the back benches drew the professor’s attention with an indomitable query: “I object, sir, to calling the rulers by their faith. We sh...
Indian troops surrendering at the Namka-chu area. This is part of the series on the 1962 India-China border war that seeks to debunk the myths, misinformation and politics spun around India’s debacle in the North-East Frontier Agency.Gener...
New Delhi: Defence Acquisition Council (DAC) on Friday took two major decisions, including the approval for the RFP for construction of six submarines at approx cost of Rs 43,000 crore and purchase of air defence guns for the armed forces worth Rs 6,...
The flags (L to R) of the US, Japan, India and Australia – the four members of the Quad.There is doubt among certain sections regarding the relevance of the quasi-security alliance between the United States, India, Japan and Australia, which is...
Funeral pyres burning at a ground that has been converted into a crematorium for mass cremation of coronavirus victims in New Delhi.As the Covid monster has been devastating human lives and national economies unabated across the world, I may infer th...
I was elated by the unique initiative recently taken by a formation of a border-guarding force responsible to secure a sensitive border. The initiative is simple, indigenous and cost-effective method to detect tunnels in the border area which the adv...
Men carry a corpse on the banks of Ganga where other bodies can be seen buried in shallow graves some 40km from Allahabad.I could not but compliment the proactive steps some dynastic regimes have taken in the first half of 2020 in controlling the nov...
Just like any other horrible war, the recent cursed election wars in some Indian states have yielded results at last. Going by the critical remarks of Neville Chamberlain, who was the British prime minister between 1937 and 1940, on the inhuman conse...
Devotees taking holy dip in Ganga during Kumbh Mela in Haridwar.Unlike other pathogens, the novel coronavirus, Covid-19, seems to be a bit different. It is like Vali, the monkey king with special powers in the Hindu epic Ramayana. Legend has it that ...