The 1965 War: A view from the east

As part of rediff.com's continuing coverageon the 1965 War, 40 Years On, Mumtaz Iqbal, a banker in then East Pakistan, looks back at the mood prevalent in the country then,and suggests that the war......

The DRDO's most unusual lab

During the Second World War, Field Marshall William Slim, commander of the 14th Army in Burma, discovered that the anopheles mosquito was causing more casualties to his men than the Japanese.......