Lucknow: President Ram Nath Kovind will be the chief guest at the Diamond Jubilee culmination ceremony of Lucknow-based Captain Manoj Kumar Pandey Uttar Pradesh Sainik School (CMKP UPSS) on August 27. CMKP UPSS is the first Sainik School to be set up...
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...
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...
CRPF personnel carry the coffin of a fallen fellow soldier in the April 3, 2021 Maoist attack in Chhattisgarh.Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, during his premiership, had once termed the Maoist (or Naxalite) insurgency the “biggest interna...
The only thing that we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history – Hegel. If Georg Hegel were to turn in his grave each time an incident across the world proved the accuracy of his statement, by now he may perhaps have rotated mo...
Pandemic has presented the biggest example of advantage India over China. Even before Pandemic Covid-19 India was supplying vaccines to 170 nations. Even before, India was largest producer of generic medicine that it can deliver at extremely low pric...
The increasingly intensifying geopolitical rivalry between the United States and China presents a golden opportunity for India to focus on something that it has been not very enthusiastic about so far. Three out of the four “Quad” quasi a...