India’s successful test-launch of the nuclear-capable, intercontinental, surface-to-surface ballistic missile, Agni-V on September 15, 2013, following the April 2012 launch of the 5,000 kms range vers

Captain Jayanta Kumar Sengupta, popularly known as Jojo, was the second son of Amar Prashad and Namita Sengupta and was born on 17 October, 1942, at Lahore, where Mr Sengupta, working with Shalimar Paints, was posted.

On August 22, 2013, Burmese soldiers reportedly crossed the International Boundary between India and Burma, at Holenphai village near Manipur’s border town of Moreh, 110 km south of Imphal in Chandel

On 24 June 2013, a day ahead of the visit of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi, eight soldiers were killed and 16 injured when terrorists ambushed an Army convoy near Hyderpora on the outskirts of Srinagar.

The ancient civilisation Sindhu/Indus/Hindu/India — steeped in arts, culture, administration and most of all science and a great reserve of natural resources — became a lucrative target for marauders who converted or killed and either way, plundered, pillaged and ruled for a thousand years.

The unprecedented disaster in the Central Himalayas began around mid June with incessant heavy rains which made rivers swell quickly and erode river banks; some with entire houses collapsing into the

In 2010, Colonel Vinay Dalvi’s (Retd) first book titled Role Model (Pentagon Press) addressed the aspects of the selection procedure for officer cadets by services selection boards and their training

Following the unusual and disturbing kind of intrusion by the Chinese border forces from April 15, 2013 in eastern Ladakh, Jammu and Kashmir, which got solved after an impasse of three weeks, external affairs minister Salman Khurshid went to China soon after and returned with a rosy picture of his two-day visit. Noting that China has given a proposal for Border Defence Cooperation Agreement (BDCA), the minister said India has also given a counter-proposal and both countries were examining these proposals.

One cannot but lament at how a state so rich in its heritage of culture, sports and arts is held to ransom by a deadly combination of lack of development and progress; armed groups which began as classic insurgencies but converted to terrorism, extortion, murder, and even treachery; corruption; vote-bank based politics; foot-dragging bureaucracy; poorly trained and led police force etc.

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Much blood has flown with water into the Brahmaputra basin just as much has happened over the decades to undo the efforts of Lokapriya Gopinath Bordoloi in ensuring that Assam remained part of India a