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The department of Defence, it would appear, is defenceless, and national security is seriously at stake. Reports that the Indian Army has sounded an alarm and expressed its anguish over the ‘poor and defective’ quality of ammunition supplied to it for tanks, artillery, air defence...

Nurturing terrorism has, for long, been seen as a state policy in Pakistan. The luxury hotel attack in Gwadar port city two days ago must be seen as a wake-up call to the rulers of that nation. Luckily for it, the bomb attack did not...

A government report says Fani-affected areas have lost greenery to the tune of Rs537 crore. The report estimates the number of uprooted trees at 14 lakh. Vast swathes of casuarina plantations along the coast and a huge number of other trees inland too, have been...

After a quick lull in their bilateral trade tensions, the US precipitated its confrontation with the Middle Kingdom. President Donald Trump has already exacerbated the atmosphere in the Middle East by sending an aircraft carrier strike group and a bomber task force to send a...

The Supreme Court has been busy creating history lately. First, the In House Committee investigating the allegation of sexual harassment brought against the Chief Justice of India (CJI) has given a clean chit to Ranjan Gogoi and left him unscathed. This has led to open...

The Election Commission (EC) has rejected the nomination of Tej Bahadur Yadav from Varanasi. He was the BSF jawan dismissed from service in 2017 after he brought out a video highlighting the poor quality of food served to soldiers on the front line. The Returning...

The fury of Fani, wherever it struck, has been on invitation by the citizens of this world. Global climate change has been a matter of worry and discussion, but of very little action. Droughts in Central and Western India to Africa, earthquakes stretching from Indonesia...

The State Bank of India (SBI), India’s largest commercial bank that holds nearly three quarters of country’s savings bank deposits, has slashed the interest earned on savings bank balances exceeding Rs 1 lakh. It follows the lender’s decision to link its saving and loan interest...

Islamic State (IS) chief Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi is alive and well — in the pink barring signs of age — if a video that has surfaced on the IS media network Furqan is to be believed. The undated video gives no detail of the time...

India and China are progressing. India at snail’s pace and China in gazelle mode. Since the turn of the Century, China’s growth story has been astounding, while India’s is dismal in most respects. The more China gains economic clout, the more its capacity to take...