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China Does Not Understand Indian Democracy

In democratic India, a citizen can be a patriot and at the same time be critical of the government, unlike China which promulgated a national security law in Hong Kong prescribing patriotism to......

Don't forget the IAF's role in the '62 war!

China declared a ceasefire on November 21 and kept Aksai Chin as its trophy. The sinews of the IAF were not muscular enough to retake Aksai Chin. What matters is what we have done since 1962.......

Exclusive: What provoked the India-China war?

Colonel Anil Athale (retd), the official historian of India's 1962 war with China, pin-points the reasons for the clash between the Asian giants 50 years ago and the series of blunders that led to......

Netaji was killed in aircrash: Declassified docs

As the circumstances surrounding the death of Netaji Subash Chandra Bose remains shrouded in mystery, official documents declassified by the government say the revolutionary leader was a victim of......

JFK was warned about defending India

Top advisers to president John F Kennedy warned him in 1963 that if he pledged to defend India against any attack by communist China, the United States would likely have to use nuclear weapons to......

Modi's minimum government, maximum governance will work, here's how

Narendra Modi may discover that his admirable aim of Minimum Government, Maximum Governance would demand deeper institutional change than he bargained for, says Kanika Datta. The promise of Minimum......

Pranab takes up Tata project with Vietnam

Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung on Wednesday assured Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee that land acquisition issues for the proposed Tata Steel plant in the neighbouring country would......

No retirement age for Asia's billionaires

In his eight decades in the media business, Sir Run Run Shaw has built the Chinese-speaking world's most successful film and TV empire. He was co-founder of Shaw Brothers, the legendary movie......

Tea, world's 2nd most popular beverage

Tea is the second most popular beverage in the world, after water. It is estimated that somewhere between 18 and 20 billion 6 oz. cups of tea are drunk daily on our planet. An extension of numbers......

Why Taiwan is an IT hardware giant

It had all the glitz of show biz -- skimpily clad young women in silver-coloured leather skirts urging you to look at their latest mobile computer (with the software in Chinese), a magic show where......

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China Does Not Understand Indian Democracy

Don't forget the IAF's role in the '62 war!

Exclusive: What provoked the India-China war?

Netaji was killed in aircrash: Declassified docs

JFK was warned about defending India

Modi's minimum government, maximum governance will work, here's how

Pranab takes up Tata project with Vietnam

No retirement age for Asia's billionaires

Tea, world's 2nd most popular beverage

Why Taiwan is an IT hardware giant

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