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I've been holding off on writing this piece for more than 36 hours now. I didn't feel it would be appropriate to sit down and analyse the fallout of an attack that was still being responded to by our security forces. It's been a long 60 hours since news of the attack first came in. Once again...

The 44-year-old Madrasa teacher says the book is not banned, but there is pressure: 'We know what they are capable of and what they did in the past'. On the late afternoon of September 24, 2002, two gunmen, Murtuza Hafiz Yasin and Ashraf Ali Mohammed Farooq, entered the Akshardham Temple in...

TNN | Jan 28, 2015, 08.44 PM IST BENGALURU: Soaked overnight in extreme cold (around -15oC) weather in Ladakh, light combat aircraft (LCA) Tejas' engine required three consecutive start-ups of the engine, but the fighter fought the limitations and flew on Wednesday, achieving another milestone...

Barack Obama and Narendra Modi address the media after their talks in Delhi. Photograph: Manish Swarup/AP US industrial interests took centre-stage at the start of Barack Obama’s visit to India as he and the prime minister, Narendra Modi, outlined a deal to limit the legal liability of US...

PTI Lucknow, January 26, 2015 | UPDATED 16:40 IST A Pakistan Air Force aircraft, with five military personnel on board, was allowed to land at the airport here for refuelling last afternoon, official sources said on Monday. The aircraft, which had taken off from Rawalpindi, was allowed by the...

NEW DELHI: After its initial ambivalence over the Palestine issue, which manifested in the vote against Israel at UNHRC soon after it tried to block a debate in Parliament over the Gaza conflict, the government on Thursday reassured the Arab world that India will continue with its "strong...

Apparent war crimes committed by US and NATO troops in Afghanistan have gone uninvestigated, leaving the families of thousands of the victims without justice, Amnesty International said in a new report. “Thousands of Afghans have been killed or injured by US forces since the invasion, but the...

by Alfredo Jalife-Rahme For Mexican geopolitical expert, Alfredo Jalife-Rahme, the simultaneity of the events illuminates their meaning: soon after announcing the creation of an alternative to the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, that is to say the dollar, Russia is having to...

I have almost no knowledge about how Fighter planes detect, lock, and fire missiles at another aircraft during dog-fights or in any other situation. Can somebody please suggest me a place where all these things are well explained (better from beginning). Also how Fighter planes do the ground...

V R Bhat, who is a prominent member of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) in Karnataka is now facing a police complaint after he threatened a woman activist with rape on Facebook. A Deccan Chronicle report says that Bhat posted on Facebook threatening Prabha N. Belamangala, a social activist...

Meerut: The Commissioner of Meerut division on Tuesday said that injuries of 20-year-old teacher did not suggest gangrape. He added that the matter is being investigated on the basis of the medical report. Earlier in the day, Uttar Pradesh Police arrested three people, including a village chief...

The leader of radical Sunni fighters who have made rapid military advances in Iraq is the rising star of global jihad, driven, Islamist fighters say, by an unbending determination to fight for and establish a hardline Islamic state. Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, commander of the Islamic State in Iraq...

Written by: Keith Knight In August of 1971, Richard Nixon untied the last string between gold and the U.S. dollar in order to export inflation to Saudi Arabia after they promised to accept oil payments in dollars. The reason governments do not like a currency that is backed by a commodity, is...

U.S. President Barack Obama (L) greets Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a press conference on March 20, 2013 in Jerusalem, Israel. Photo credit: Lior Mizrahi/Getty Images The U.S. government has long lavished overwhelming aid on Israel, providing cash, weapons and surveillance...

The following article by Canadian author Richard Sanders first published in May 2002, prior to the onslaught of the Iraq war, carefully documents the History of War Pretext Incidents. The anti-war movement must address the issue of the “pretext” and “justification” to wage war. Regarding the...

The mind has a way of making traumatic experiences seem like distant dreams to those who survive them. As it goes, the more traumatic the experience, the quicker the paramedics in one's mind rush to dress wounds, resuscitate and stabilize the victim; the victim being you. Since returning from...

Since Monday, more than fifty Palestinians have been killed and another 450 wounded because of Israel’s ongoing assault on the Gaza Strip. As we all know, mainstream media outlets are always trying to project Israel as the victim, defending its people against irrational Palestinian rocket fire...

A day before Palestinian teenager Muhammad Abu Khudair was kidnapped and burned alive allegedly by six Israeli Jewish youths, Israeli lawmaker Ayelet Shaked published on Facebook a call for genocide of the Palestinians. It is a call for genocide because it declares that “the entire Palestinian...

Can anybody recommend me a book which deals with (describes) various Military tactics, combat tactics used by infantry (desert warfare, Jungle warfare, Mountain warfare etc.) ( may be from the famous battles that took place) ..? Thank You

Dec 17, 2013, 04.05 PM IST MANILA: US secretary of state John Kerry warned China on Tuesday against imposing an air defence zone over the South China Sea, similar to one it declared over disputed islands in the East China Sea. "The zone should not be implemented and China should refrain from...