'It was always my intention to be different, because that is the only way to last.'
Army columns equipped with boats, bulldozers and engineering equippment have been rushed to Nanded and Bhadrachalam districts.
The activities of ISI were assuming serious dimensions and increasing nexus between fundamentalist and criminal fringe elements are creating problems in the hinterland areas.
The Assam unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party on Friday decided against teaming up another political party to contest the 14 Lok Sabha seats in the state, informed BJP general secretary Santanu Bharali.
Trump on Wednesday said in a tweet that he was "ready, willing and able to mediate" between the two countries.
'The camp would provide military training for 1,800 ordinary Taliban fighters and 200 low-level commanders,' an unnamed Afghan government official was quoted by The Independent as saying.
It is learnt that Defence Minister Rajnath Singh has conveyed to top military brass that there was no need for reviewing the implementation of any of the key projects along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in Ladakh, Sikkim, Uttarakhand or in Arunachal Pradesh in view of the aggressive behaviour by Chinese troops in several sensitive areas.
According to rescue officer Phil Gaden in Australia, Tomy had a severely injured back.
The incident came the same day an extremist claiming allegiance to IS stabbed two police officials to death in a Paris suburb.
Israeli jets on Saturday pounded over 30 Hamas targets in Gaza, killing five Palestinians, as rocket fire into Israel continued with the month-long conflict that has claimed about 2,000 lives flaring up again after the end of a three-day truce.
The situation along the Indo-Bangla border in Assam's Cachar district remained tense but under control.
As economic challenges, trade and energy security take precedence over peninsular issues, the role of armed forces in protecting nation's interests became crucial, he said.
The two were not members of any gang but common citizens.
China is distributing millions of controversial updated maps to its military in the first upgrade in 30 years, reportedly reinforcing its claims over Arunachal Pradesh.
Indian Navy is in the process of modernisation with the induction of new platforms fitted with potent weapons and sensors, Rear Admiral Rajender Singh, chief of Staff Southern Naval Command, said Monday.
The navy finds itself fighting for relevance, with navy planners lamenting that its share of the budget has dropped dramatically.
The Navy's Maritime Aerial reconnaissance capacity had been depleted recently after its Russian acquired IL-38 aircraft crashed and the longer range TU142 was dispatched to Russia for upgradation.
Mullah Dadullah Akhund is trying to outdo slain al-Qaeda leader Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi in viciousness and cruelty
As the latest six-month turnaround of British forces got under way this week, officers were confident that the success of the counter-insurgency effort would lead to a significant reduction in troop numbers.
Israeli jets on Tuesday pounded 50 Hamas targets on the Gaza Strip injuring at least 17 Palestinians as part of a military offensive code-named 'Protective Edge' after a barrage of rockets hit southern Israel amid escalating tensions in the region.
These releases are in addition to 26 Taliban detainees freed last year by Pakistan.
Stalin has given due respect to seniority in the pecking order, but has also taken into consideration the demands of individual ministries and the suitability of individuals, observes N Sathiya Moorthy.
Women make up 40 per cent of the entire Kurdish militia
The real story why the finance minister is not fighting the Lok Sabha election.
'Why did your generals try to grab a few square kilometres of Indian territory in Ladakh?' 'And what happened to the hard work that you and Prime Minister Modi put into the Wuhan and Mamallapuram meets?' Claude Arpi writes a letter to Xi Jinping, China's self-styled supreme leader, who turns 68 today, June 15.
"Seven army men were among 10 people killed in the attack," military spokesman Major General Shaukat Sultan told\n\nGeo TV.
The MEA said it was the Chinese side that recently undertakook activities hindering India's normal patrols in the areas.
The air strike was launched after the Russian forces in Syria received intelligence that a meeting of Islamic State leaders was being planned, the defence ministry said.
Pakistan had reportedly launched 'strikes' against militant bases in Afghanistan on Saturday.
A Bangladeshi oil tanker carrying over 3,50,000 litres of furnace oil sank on Tuesday in a river in the Sundarbans leaving its captain missing while leaking its cargo and endangering the world's largest mangrove forest.
The Chinese and the Indian troops were engaged in a standoff for 73 days in Doklam.
Tawang is very much a part of India, and if the present Dalai Lama decides one day to take rebirth in Tawang, the Indian government will openly welcome him and support him, notes Claude Arpi.
The effort made to define the larger picture by focussing on history and the wish not turn differences into disputes and conflicts is welcome. In the obtaining circumstances today, nothing more could have been possible, observes Ambassador T P Sreenivasan.
For both India and China, the most likely option -- and the most challenging -- appears to be a freezing of the status quo.
© 2026 Rediff.com - Advertise with us - Disclaimer - Privacy Policy - Sitemap - Feedback - About us - Terms of use - Grievances