Tag: Surgical Strikes

New Delhi: The inside story of the issues that made headlines during the Presidentship of Pranab Mukherjee — demonetisation, surgical strikes and others — will find mention in the fourth part of his autobiographical series, titles “The Presidential Years”. Billed as a “first of its kind” book, it will be published in December and will […]

By Sandeep Sahu Midway into his five-year term, Narendra Damodardas Modi‘s record as Prime Minister has been a mixed bag. He has notched up some notable successes and some equally notable failures. On the positive side are a series of initiatives to put some life back into the moribund economy, the mainstreaming of cleanliness as […]

By Sandeep Sahu Nothing unites India more than war and cricket – or so went the conventional wisdom. The heart-warming example of the late Atal Bihari Vajpayee, then an Opposition leader, christening Indira Gandhi as Goddess Durga after the comprehensive win against Pakistan in the 1971 war is cited even to this day to prove […]

New Delhi: Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday said no civilian was killed in the air and surgical strikes by Indian troops on terrorist hubs in Pakistan. Speaking in the Lok Sabha, Shah said his government had changed the approach of dealing with terrorism and was attacking its roots in Pakistan. “Our government did […]