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NEW DELHI: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his government are increasingly wielding strong-arm tactics to subdue political opponents and critics of the ruling Hindu-nationalist party. A decade into power, and on the cusp of securing five more years, the Modi government is reversing India’s decadeslong commitment to multiparty ...

On May 16, the Jammu and Kashmir Police made a dramatic announcement. Thirty-three years after the assassination of Kashmir’s chief cleric Mirwaiz Mohammad Farooq at his residence, the police’s Special Investigation Agency said, the law had finally caught up with two of his alleged killers.The two men from Srinagar, ...

NEW DELHI — India was on the cusp of freedom from British rule in 1947 and Vappala Pangunni Menon was completely worn out.Three decades of working in the grinding imperial bureaucracy had taken its toll on the tenacious 54-year-old civil servant.Menon was "exhausted, overworked, already coughing ominously", his biographer ...

India oi-Amar Bhushan | Published: Thursday, July 28, 2022, 14:40 When you watch the national flag flutter on the ramparts of Red Fort on August 15, 2022, close your eyes for a few seconds and remember all these unsung heroes India celebrates its 75th year of independence on ...

By Maj Gen Jagatbir Singh, VSM (Retd) In 1967, India and China had a stand -off in the heights of Cho La and Nathu La at the Sikkim border. This time, unlike in 1962, overcoming the odds, India stood its ground and triumphed. Probal DasGupta in his wonderful account ...

Jammu: Lieutenant governor Manoj Sinha on Friday said the gallant deeds of CISF’s Assistant Sub-Inspector (ASI) S P Patel, who was killed during an encounter with militants in Jammu, will never be forgotten.“I salute India’s brave son and an ASI of the CISF, S P Patel, who made the ...

JAMMU : Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant governor Manoj Sinha on Friday said the gallant deeds of CISF’s Assistant Sub-Inspector (ASI) S P Patel, who was killed during an encounter with terrorists in Jammu, will never be forgotten.Two Pakistani “fidayeen” (suicide) attackers belonging to proscribed terror outfit Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) and ...

With the focus squarely on the refugees in Ukraine, I hope the world does not forget the plight of 10 lakh Rohingya refugees and its host country Bangladesh. Nevertheless, its approach towards Bangladesh needs a reset, along with some lessons for future protracted crises.Born in Bangladesh two years after ...

#Pakistan News Regarded as one of the earliest social reformers, very little is known about the woman who challenged patriarchy and conservative norms. On January 9, Google honoured Fatima Sheikh, a reformer and educationist, with a doodle on its homepage on her 191st birth anniversary. Sheikh is widely regarded as ...

#Pakistan News Kashmir is a natural paradise, surrounded by India, Pakistan, China and Afghanistan with the narrow Wakhan corridor separating it from Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. Compared to the existing 193 countries in the world taken individually, Kashmir is larger than 103 and more populous than 129. It is also ...