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"In President Trump's case, what used to be back-channelling, quiet is now front-channelling": Manish Tewari on claims of India-Pak ceasefireManish Tewari elucidates the distinctions between back-channelling, mediation, and arbitration, highlighting the US's shift to 'front-chann...
Inside Operation Tupac: Pakistan’s secret project to burn KashmirPakistan's Operation Tupac, initiated in the late 1980s by Gen. Zia-ul-Haq, aimed to destabilize Jammu and Kashmir through insurgency and s...
More security forces for Lok Sabha polls than operation BrasstacksMobilisation on such a large scale is rare in the world. India’s best known army exercise, Operation Brasstacks, is said to have involved 6...
Indian Air Force jets do 5,000 sorties in 72 hours on western frontAfter the “surge” in air combat operations on the western front with Pakistan, the Indian Air Force has now switched its forces to the nort...
Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman to visit Chabua for IAF Gaganshakti exerciseThe exercise aims at checking the IAF’s operational capabilities in a war-like scenario and its preparedness for high tempo operations.
How Chandra & Mittal bonded over a dinner in May to connect their telecom empiresTata Tele was losing cash; it was haemorrhaging the group and the ongoing telecom bloodbath meant marginal players had to shape up or just ...
India cannot give Pakistan Army befitting replySomeone who has spent onethird of his youthful time astride the line, I understand what the Army calls the dynamics of LoC.
Mani Shankar Aiyar slams Natwar Singh over IPKF issueHe suggested that in the time between the decision to send the forces and the real time of sending the forces, consultations had taken plac...
Operation Brasstacks happened without Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi's approval: BookNatwar writes, "Operation Brasstacks had become a problem. Several versions of Operation Brasstacks exist. I will give mine for what's wort...
Natwar Singh's account of frosty relations between Sonia Gandhi and PV Narasimha Rao"Sonia had made P V Narasimha Rao Prime Minister. But she wasn't very fond of him," Natwars Singh recalls in his just-released autobiograph...
- Rajiv Gandhi didn't consult even his cabinet on sending troops to Sri Lanka: Natwar Singh
The troops ended up fighting the now vanquished Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and returned home in March 1990 after losing nearly...
Lok Sabha polls 2014: CRPF, BSF to keep polls peacefullThis election the EC, home ministry and paramilitary forces are coordinating better to iron out glitches to ensure easier troop movement an...
- In India, the luggage beats you to the room
It is not often that a 17-year-old becomes an owner of a deli. It is also not often that a 17-year-old strategises his market segmentation ...