During the Kargil conflict in 1999, India did not cross the Line of Control (LoC). If it has behaved differently this time, the reason is that Pakistan's reputation has nosedived in the last decade and a half....
India -- under Prime Minister Narendra Modi -- crossed the line of control in more ways than one on September 29, 2016. Posterity will be a better and truer judge, but Thursday's surgical strike by our Special Forces is a game-changer both in terms of how we view ourselves and how the world sees India....
Until five years ago, the US and China shared an almost equal proportion of Pakistans arms imports: 39 per cent and 38 per cent respectively. Today, China supplies 63 per cent of Pakistans armaments, with the US dropping to 19 per cent and second place, an IndiaSpend analysis reveals, as Pakistan mulls a response to Indias strike on ter...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi had to show to the people of India that he could live up to his braggadocio -- and he did so when he authorised Thursday's "surgical strikes" across the Line of Control (LoC) in Pakistan territory to take out seven terrorist "launch pads" and causing what officials are calling "significant casualties"....
If India and Pakistan fought a war detonating 100 nuclear warheads (around half of their combined arsenal), each equivalent to a 15-kiloton Hiroshima bomb, more than 21 million people will be directly killed, about half the world's protective ozone layer would be destroyed, and a "nuclear winter" would cripple monsoons and agriculture worldwide. ...
As we enter a technology era where Next-Gen devices are launched every single day, some are bound to fail as they don't connect with consumers -- while a few will be remembered as being ahead of their time. So what exactly went wrong with two recent much-hyped devices: Google Glass and Samsung Galaxy Note 7?...
In a recognition of the country's Muslim community, the second-largest in the world, an Indian has been invited to attend a prestigious conference of the Organisation of Islamic Countries' Islamic Conference Youth Forum for Dialogue and Cooperation (ICYF-DC)....
In a move to help India's billion-plus population connect to Internet, tech giant Google on Tuesday announced to expand its free Wi-Fi service -- currently available at 52 railway stations -- to public places across India....
As tensions between India and Pakistan continue to rise over the Uri terrorist attack in Jammu and Kashmir, US-based political science expert Sumit Ganguly has stressed it is "too late" for a military response and even attempts to diplomatically isolate Pakistan would be tough for India in the current global scenario....
Banning artistes, writers, actors and poets gives a victory to the terrorists and extremists who don't want people-to-people contact, Pakistani sufi-rock band Junoon's frontman Salman Ahmad said....
