'General Rawat's unambiguous stand has acted as a much needed confidence booster to the troops -- young officers and soldiers at the cutting edge -- who were often left wondering if they were doing the right and necessary thing in combating the terrorists, many times paying with their own lives,' says Nitin A Gokhale.
Nitin A Gokhale, Co-founder, BharatShakti.in and long-time Rediff.com contributor, remembers a most unusual politician.
'The surgical strikes were not meant to deter or stop infiltration.' 'It was meant to create a kind of uncertainty in the minds of Pakistani military commanders.' 'By using hard power we've created an option which was not there earlier.'
Although India has sought inputs from the Myanmar army since most of those involved in Thursday's ambush would have sneaked across into Myanmar, the fresh operations would smoke out insurgents based in hideouts on the Indian side along the border.
Debroy is expected to have a role and responsibility similar to the erstwhile chairman of the Prime Minister's Economic Advisory Council
'She exists alongside Sita, the archetype of the ideal woman,' notes Arundhuti Dasgupta.
Twelve Indian American students have entered the championship rounds of the prestigious 78th Annual Scripps National Spelling Bee competition.
A special Central Bureau of Investigation court in Mumbai has convicted four former bank officials in one of the multi-crore securities scam cases and sentenced them to three years imprisonment, 25 years after the scam involving 'Big Bull' Harshad Mehta came to the fore.
A bench of Justice H L Gokhale and S Dharmadhikari, decided to watch the movie before hearing the arguments of the party and adjourned the matter to February 10.
'I stopped getting work after 2004. Between 2005 and 2018, I had no work.'
Boeing is also exploring the possibility of manufacturing aircraft components and assembling the jets in India.
Sukanya Verma lists her favourite frames from Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam.
'The Indian Army's surveillance had noticed the Chinese movements.' 'There was no intelligence failure.'
TDS merely means the bank will pay you the entire interest amount without forwarding the tax on it to the government.
The G20 chair has suggested three areas for the talks in Argentina - the future of work, infrastructure for development and a sustainable food future, areas where India has a lot at stake.
'During his stint as MoS in the Narasimha Rao PMO, Matang Sinh developed contacts in the bureaucracy which stood him in good stead even when out of power.'
The IAF 'evidence' shows that the S-2000 laser-guided munition hit the intended targets causing significant 'internal damage', sources said.
Ramachandra Rama Reddy has been suspended from the Nashik-based India Security Press in connection with the stamp scam.
Doval's visit was 'part of regular high-level engagements between India and China', an Indian Embassy press release in Beijing said.
Retailers, especially food and grocery chains, are clearly unhappy, saying the ban is impractical
'It looked as if India had been a major player in science at that time, raising the question when and why things changed,' says distinguished aerospace scientist Professor Roddam Narasimha.
Director Anurag Kashyap is numb with the news.
Two days back, the judges had asked the Centre and the Central Board of Film Certification to file their replies on a petition filed by a serial blast accused against the release of movie.
The less-fancied Maharashtra girl beat the defending champion in the ninth round of the National Women's chess championship.
Debroy worked as a consultant in the Department of Economic Affairs in Finance Ministry.
His remarks without naming any country came against the backdrop of tension between India and Pakistan after New Delhi revoked Jammu and Kashmir's special status.
The blasts occurred at Mulund, Vile Parle and Mumbai Central between December 2002 and March 2003.
The Mumbai high court has asked the Censor Board to grant a certificate on Anand Patwardhan's anti-nuclear short film.
'They cannot use firearms.' 'They have to be restrained.' 'It is a game of patience and chess board moves.' 'It is not like India and Pakistan where bullets get fired and people get killed.'
GM Pavel Kotsur of Kazakhstan and Saidali Iuldachev of Uzbekistan maintained their joint lead after the eighth round of the Parsvanath International Chess tournament.
The reasons for China's negative response are located in its territorial dispute with India but also to its grand designs of dominating the region from its previous position of being merely a "balancer" between India and Pakistan, points out Srikanth Kondapalli, Professor in Chinese Studies at JNU.
'The Indian military has rightly advised the government not to fall for the rather spurious Pakistani demand to demilitarise Siachen,' says Nitin Gokhale in an interview about his new book Beyond NJ9842: The Siachen Saga.
'Those of us who have seen the Indian military from close quarters for decades now are outraged at Admiral Sushil Kumar's irresponsible and in my view flippant remark,' says Nitin A Gokhale. 'What makes people like Julio Riberio and Admiral Sushil Kumar, who rose to the highest positions in their respective professions, play the victim? Especially when it is not clear if all the attacks on Christians and Christian establishments had their roots in religious intolerance.'
'If you are a professional journalist, don't ever think that your work is going to bring in revolution or that you are going to change the world. That job is best left to the revolutionaries,' M V Kamath, the legendary journalist who passed away on October 9, told Nitin Gokhale.
