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75 years ago on the 27th of October, the Indian infantry soldiers landed at Srinagar airport to take part in the first-ever war after independence. The first war between India and Pakistan began in October...

  No matter how much one tries to avoid reading about the Russia-Ukraine ‘special operations’, the media, print and visual, has at least one news item on it, hence, my contribution to add to the...

  Democratic Republic of Congo (DPR) in Central Africa also known as Congo-Kinshasa, Belgian Congo and Zaire is the second-largest country in Africa and the 11th-largest in the world with a population of 108 million...

  Cantonments as garrisons were composite military-civilian townships. They were high on heritage with diverse legacy and inheritance. Sprawling pastures abridged with paved landscapes. The chirping of birds distinctly reverberated, and reveille bugle sounded. Training...

  Fifty-seven years ago the battle of Asal Uttar fought in the Khem Karan sector of Punjab in the month of September 1965 is often compared to the Battle of Kursk in the Second World...

  Back in the 80s, when dad was GE at Ichhapore, a census town in Barrackpore near Calcutta, we never expected to live in a house with so many rooms which remained unexplored. House 47, dubbed The...

  One of the last things that Lord Mountbatten, wanted to do before he finally left India on 23 June 1948 was to solve the Hyderabad issue. Hyderabad was the only state which has not...

  INS Vikrant commissioned by Prime Minister Narendra Modi as part of the 75th anniversary of Indian independence is the first aircraft carrier to be built in India.  The new indigenously built 45,000-ton aircraft carrier will...

Challenging Times A look at the history of India in last 500 years gives a sense of gloom with multiple invasions, religious oppressions, colonial plunder and a largely deprived society. It makes a rather depressing...

  Siachen - the highest battlefield in the world, is located in the eastern Karakoram ranges of the Himalayas in the Union Territory of Ladakh. Siachen often called the Third Pole -- is also known as...

India was the largest economy in the world for most of the time from the 10th century BC to the 18th century AD. Around 1700 AD, the Indian subcontinent produced about 25 per cent...

  On 26 July 1999, 23 years ago, the guns fell silent after 83  days of intense fighting in the Ladakh and Karakoram ranges in the Himalayas. Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee admired the valour...

  Indian history is replete with betrayal to the country by its own people. Greed, jealousy and revenge have been the main causes of the betrayal. It is a nation of hypocrites, who are ‘saints’...