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Jaswant Singh Rawat: The Mahaveer who stood up to the enemy till last breath
Nov 17, 2022
New Delhi: The date November 17, 1962, will forever be etched in golden letters in the military history of India. On this day, Maha Veer Chakra (MVC) awardee Rifleman Jaswant Singh Rawat truly lived up to the epithet ‘Maha Veer’ by laying down his life after single-handedly holding off hundreds of Chinese soldiers for three days in the icy heights of Arunachal Pradesh during the 1962 war between India and China.

TN: Doctor sons keep mother’s corpse at house hoping to resurrect her through ‘prayers’
Nov 17, 2022
Two doctors were found keeping their mother’s corpse at home in the belief that she can be resurrected through prayers. The family had converted to Christianity recently and had been following the religion rigorously. The corpse was taken to their native for final rites after neighbours informed the police.

The Himalayan blunder: India-China War
Nov 17, 2022
Again and again, military men have seen themselves hurled into war by the ambition, passions and blunders of civilian governments, almost wholly uninformed as to the limits of their military potential and almost recklessly indifferent to the military requirements of the war they let loose. —Alfred Vagts, ‘The History of Militarism’ (Max/289)


Nehru Himalayan Blunder - Not settling boundary with China
Nov 15, 2022
"Instead of leader he acted as a politician and made blunders with the theory of probability": Nehru's flawed attitudes towards Communist China and Tibet, the unsettled border in both Aksai Chin & MacMahon line, his 'rigid line' finally led to 1962 war Nehru failed to negotiate with China on a peaceful settlement of borders, which was so vital to India's security. Doing so was not difficult considering that China at that time was not strong, had numerous external and internal problems to contend with, and was therefore willing for a “give and take”, particularly  ‘Aksai  Chin...

Iran Votes to Execute Protesters, Says Rebels Need 'Hard Lesson'
Nov 15, 2022

Ghaziabad: Woman kills husband with help of boyfriend and buries him in latter’s house, body recovered 4 years later, duo arrested
Nov 14, 2022
Ghaziabad police on Monday arrested a woman, who with the help of her boyfriend had killed her husband four years ago and buried his body in her boyfriend’s house. The deceased had officially gone missing four years ago, in the year 2018.

High on ‘sex pills’, man ‘rapes’ date; girl dies of excessive bleeding
Nov 14, 2022
Unnao (UP): A 25-year-old man was arrested for allegedly bailing on his so-called girlfriend when she started bleeding profusely from her private part after sex on November 9. The girl was found dead the next morning and a case of rape and murder was lodged.

Nehru Panchsheel Blunder - Selling Tibet, harming Self
Nov 14, 2022
“This great doctrine [Panchsheel] was born in sin, because it was enunciated to put the seal of our approval upon the destruction of an ancient nation which was associated with us spiritually and culturally... It was a nation which wanted to live its own life and it sought to have been allowed to live its own life ...” — Acharya Kriplani (Arpi2)