We were talking to a real-life spy!! Wow!
60 years ago, on January 24, 1966, Dr Homi J Bhabha, the father of India's nuclear programme, died in an air crash on Mont Blanc. The official inquiry said the plane went off course in bad weather, but coincidences, missing evidence, and later unproven claims have kept conspiracy theories alive. A fascinating excerpt from Bakhtiar Dadabhoy's book, Homi J Bhabha: A Life.
Both men spent most of their careers in their nations' intelligence services before they ascended to bigger roles -- Doval in the Intelligence Bureau; Putin in the KGB.
A latest documentary on Russian leader Vladimir Putin shows that during his time as a KGB spy, he was labelled a drunken letch by his Soviet masters.
'It is the first technology in history which is not just a tool, it is an agent.' Yuval Noah Harari on the dangers on AI.
According to police, Salian (28) allegedly committed suicide by jumping from a high-rise building in Malad area of Mumbai on June 8, 2020.
Glimpses of Vladmir Putin's face at his media interaction with French President Emmanuel Macron in Moscow on Monday, February 7, 2022.
'It would be a huge mistake to think that Gorbachev's reforms did not achieve anything.' 'We all live in the world, which is in many respects a result of Glasnost and Perestroika.'
A simple Estonian soup that's much tastier than you imagine.
The Kerala government on Thursday ordered a vigilance probe into the charges of amassing disproportionate wealth by P V Sreenijan, son-in-law of former Chief Justice of India K G Balakrishnan. According to official sources, the order was issued by Kerala Home Minister Kodiyeri Balakrishnan, based on the recommendation to conduct such a probe against Sreenijan by Chief Minister V S Achuthanandan.
Russian soldier Vadim Shishimarin, 21, was sentenced to life in prison by a Ukrainian court in Kyiv on Monday, May 23, 2022, for killing an unarmed civilian in the first war crimes trial arising from Russia's February 24 invasion.
The anticipated surgery and recovery are expected to incapacitate Putin for 'a short time', the report said.
Asked why the United States was targeting Putin's daughters, a senior Biden administration official said the US thought they could be in control of some of their father's assets.
The Pakistan army is staring at the greatest, scariest, existential threat to its power in their country. This threat has come from a populist riding democratic power, observes Shekhar Gupta.
The Taliban is highly pragmatic and would regard it wasteful to resume military offensive to capture Panjshir. The Taliban's preference, historically, has been to keep the military option as the last resort, explains Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar
The ambassador, though, admitted that the Communist Party of India received financial assistance from its Soviet counterpart.
The book had claimed that India was one of the countries "most successfully penetrated" by KGB and that the Kremlin spent a fortune trying to influence the press, police, ministers and the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.
'The response to savagery and mass injustice is never a persistent howl.' 'There will be, among the victims, those who choose to forget the scars, those who go on living, those who challenge the overall environment of sentimentality.' 'And the more effort you put into including these other voices, into assimilating these spoilsports, the more balanced your depiction of the tragedy in question will be,' observes Sreehari Nair.
'He is not that crazy.' 'He is driven by a deep sense of Russian power have been diminished.'
Whether it liked it or not, the Ukraine crisis forced India to choose between the aggressor Russia and the US-led free world, a decision it hated to make, Virendra Kapoor points out. In the end, it abstained from the vote in the Security Council.
He will be remembered not only as a writer but as one of the great chroniclers and interrogators of the history of our times, says Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar.
'Bring Mossad and KGB too. There is nothing to hide. We are not opposing the CBI. When the Mumbai Police is already on the job, what will the CBI do?'
The first explosion hit the second carriage of a train at the central Lubyanka station at 7.52 am (9.22 IST) killing some 35 people, spokesperson of Moscow Metro railway Svetlana Tsaryova told ITAR-TASS.
Once Mazar-i-Sharif falls, some isolate pockets of resistance may remain, which the Taliban would tackle through political work or coercion, asserts Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar.
'What was the need for the investigating officers to tell the journalists about the place where the surviving Lashkar terrorist was being detained and where he is going to be transferred next? Don't they realise that such information would be useful to the Lashkar and the ISI if they want to mount an operation to rescue or eliminate him? What was the need for the journalists to find out such sensitive details and disseminate them in the media?'
Russian President Vladimir Putin today approved the nomination of First Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev as his successor, allowing the former KGB officer to retain control over Kremlin even after stepping down next year
Outgoing Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday accepted the leadership of the ruling United Russia and declared that he will take over as Prime Minister. A former KGB officer, Putin will leave Kremlin in three weeks after an eight-year reign. The United Russia party has an absolute majority in Russia's lower house, the State Duma.
Yes, long before he created Bond, author Ian Fleming rescued MI6 from an untimely death by inadvertently paving the way for the secret service to be infiltrated by members of the Russian KGB's Cambridge ring, its most destructive traitors, according to the newly released documents.
'Mithun Chakraborty, and to some extent Amitabh Bachchan, were the last Indian stars to make an impact in Russia,' says an Indian doctor. And, yes, some of them know who Aishwarya Rai is.
She has slammed the Opposition for disrupting Parliament.
Organised crime is grooming a new generation of high-flying cyber criminals using the KGB-style tactics.
Russians across 11 time zones voted on Sunday in a Parliamentary election seen as a referendum on President Vladimir Putin's hold on power even after he quits office in May, with a marginalised opposition crying foul.
The victims of the attack were suffering from coughing, suffocation and rapid heartbeats. Several of them are being treated at the scene of the attack, the report addded.
Recalling instances, he said there were several occasions when "fiction" was not allowed to be discussed.
The Russian president received more than 76 per cent of the votes.
The Commission toured Russia from September 20 to 30, and visited archives in Moscow, Omsk, Irkhutsk and St Petersburg.
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