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India's military is changing, and how!

The creation of a CDS has got the head right.Issues that were not talked about for years are now being discussed, points out Ajai Shukla. IMAGE: India's first Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin......

Enlist the army to fight the Naxalites!

'It is time to use the Indian military's decades-long expertise in fighting insurgency successfully,' advocates Colonel Anil A Athale (retd). IMAGE: Central Reserve Police Force personnel carry......

Sporadic violence mars voting in WB; Mamata slams EC

IMAGE: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee in Nandigram. Photograph: Ashok Bhaumik/PTI Photo Heavy voting amidst sporadic violence, marked the second phase of polling to the West......

India, Pakistan, Bangladesh: Brothers in Blood

At a time when China is trying to make its foray into South Asia, India should use its shared history to strengthen its ties in the region, argues Dr Rup Narayan Das. IMAGE: Bangladesh's Prime......

BJP activists clash with cops over Bengal poll tickets

Protests over the Bharatiya Janata Parrty's choice of candidates rocked Bengal for the third day on Tuesday, with many party activists staging demonstration outside the saffron camp's election......

SBI's digital transactions are as high as 67% now

The country's largest lender State Bank of India has seen a perceptible increase in the number transactions happening at its multiple digital channels, with the percentage moving from 60 per cent......

NSE trading outage: Calls for more stock exchanges likely to grow

Sebi proposes to relax ownership rules to allow more entrants in the exchange space, which is seeing a disruption globally with the emergence of new technologies such as block chain. Illustration:......

PNB scam: Nirav Modi to know his fate on Thu

Wanted diamond merchant Nirav Modi, who remains behind bars in a London prison as he contests his extradition to India on charges of fraud and money laundering in the estimated $2-billion Punjab......

Nirav Modi's remand extended till Feb 25

Wanted diamond merchant Nirav Modi appeared via videolink from his London prison for a regular call-over hearing at Westminster Magistrates' Court on Friday, when he was further remanded in custody......

Can Julian Assange 'save' Nirav Modi from being extradited?

Nirav Modi's lawyer raised a British court's judgment blocking the extradition of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to the US on mental health grounds, as the embattled diamond merchant appeared via......

15 BEAUTIFUL stories, told on screen

Aseem Chhabra introduces us to the best of Berlinale. I usually spend 10 days of February in Berlin attending the Berlinale, the most exciting international film festival in Europe, in the early......

Soumitra Chatterjee and the inheritance of loss

The passing of Satyajit Ray's renaissance man feels like the snapping of the last connection with a generation that built a nation and defined grace while facing everything life had to throw at......

S P Balasubrahmanyam's TOP 75 Songs

Siva Sankar looks at S P Balasubrahmanyam's fantastic repertoire. S P Balasubrahmanyam passed away in his 75th year, and so we celebrate the singer with 75 of his top songs, in a multi-part......

Shastri gets first jab of COVID-19 vaccine

IMAGE: India Head Coach Ravi Shastri gets a jab of the COVID-19 vaccine in Ahmedabad on Tuesday, March 2, 2021. Photograph: Ravi Shastri/Twitter Ravi Shastri will turn 59 on May 27, but the......

EPL: Chelsea held by Wolves in Tuchel's first match in charge

IMAGE: Wolverhampton Wanderers' Adama Traore is tackled by Chelsea's Kai Havertz during their Premier League match at Stamford Bridge in London on Wednesday. Photograph: Richard Heathcote/Getty......

Lyon hails Siraj for calling out racial abuse at SCG

'I just really hope in a whole world society we can get over it and people can come to watch us play cricket, with players not going to work and not be worried about being abused.' IMAGE: Mohammed......

India send Australia crashing on Day 1 of 2nd Test

Day 1: Australia 195 all out; India 36 for 1. IMAGE: India's Ravichandran Ashwin celebrates dismissing Australia's Steve Smith during Day 1 of the second Test, at Melbourne Cricket Ground, on......

World Cup qualifiers: Argentina breeze past Peru, Brazil win

IMAGE: Argentina's Lionel Messi in action with Peru's Luis Abram Ernesto. Photograph: Benavides/Pool via Reuters Argentina scored twice in the first half and were unfortunate not to score more in......

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India's military is changing, and how!

The creation of a CDS has got the head right.Issues that were not talked about for years are now being discussed, points out Ajai Shukla. IMAGE:... ...

http://www.rediff.com/news/column/indias-military-is-changing-and-how/20210412.htm

Enlist the army to fight the Naxalites!

'It is time to use the Indian military's decades-long expertise in fighting insurgency successfully,' advocates Colonel Anil A Athale (retd).... ...

http://www.rediff.com/news/column/enlist-the-army-to-fight-the-naxalites/20210409.htm

Airtel sells some 800 MHz spectrum in 3 circles to Jio for Rs 1,037.6 crore

Jio will assume future liabilities of Rs 459 crores relating to the spectrum, Airtel said in a statement. Bharti has signed a definitive pact with... ...

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/industry/telecom/telecom-news/airtel-sells-some-800-mhz-spectrum-in-3-circles-to-jio-for-rs-1037-6-crore/articleshow/81931909.cms

South holds the key to power

In the southern block-Thiruvananthapuram, Kollam, Alappuzha and Pathanamthitta- the incumbent LDF government has 33 MLAs out of the total 39 in the... ...

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/elections/assembly-elections/kerala/kerala-elections-2021-south-holds-the-key-to-power/articleshow/81906864.cms

Virus variants threaten to draw out the pandemic

For weeks, the mood in much of the United States has been buoyant. Cases, hospitalizations and deaths from the coronavirus have fallen steeply from... ...

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/world-news/virus-variants-threaten-to-draw-out-the-pandemic-scientists-say/articleshow/81895239.cms

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