Tag: Surgical Strike

Bhubaneswar: A state of high alert has been issued in Odisha following the surgical strike across the Line of Control (LoC) by the Indian Army on the intervening night of Wednesday and Thursday. Director General of Police (DGP) KB Singh said security at all vital establishments and defence set ups have been beefed up following […]

Bengaluru: Denying that the government was politicising the Army’s surgical strike inside Pakistan two years ago, Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Sunday said it was being celebrated as a festival to show that India won’t take any attack on its troops lying down. “The ‘Parakram Parv’ is being celebrated in over 50 cities across the […]

New Delhi: The Congress on Thursday accused the Modi government of leveraging the 2016 surgical strikes across the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir as “political fodder” to garner votes and listed similar multiple strikes carried out over last two decades to assert that such action was not the first of its kind though […]

London: Terming “surgical strike” an answer to the “exporters of terrorism”, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday said that India informed Pakistan about the 2016 strike before announcing to the media in the country. He said India will not tolerate “those who like to export terror and try to backstab” and “they will be given […]

New Delhi: The Congress on Monday slammed the government over the increase in ceasefire violations at the India-Pakistan border and also accused it of politically misusing the surgical strike of 2016. “National security has become limited to the speeches of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. There is a 500-time increase in ceasefire violations,” Congress spokesperson Pramod […]

United Nations: Pakistan has denied that India made any surgical strikes against it while accusing India of trying to provoke a conflict by “falsely” claiming it had carried out the operations and threatening to use more of them. Pakistan’s Permanent Representative Maleeha Lodhi raised the Kashmir issue again on Tuesday with the new twist about […]

New Delhi: The Indian Army on Wednesday said it has carried out an operation against NSCN (K) militants along the border with Myanmar and inflicted “heavy casualties” on the insurgents. Army officials however clarified that it was “not a surgical strike”. The Eastern Command of the Indian Army said in a tweet that a “firefight” occurred […]

New Delhi: The cross-LoC surgical strike last year was carried out by Indian troops to send across a “strong message” to Pakistan, which could not have been conveyed through other means, former General Officer Commanding-in-Chief of the Army’s Northern Command Lt. General D.S. Hooda (retd) has said. Hooda, who oversaw the September 2016 attack across […]

Bhubaneswar: There was no let-up in the rush for withdrawing money and exchanging demonetised notes in several cities of Odisha, as serpentine queues in front of banks and ATMs were a common sight even on Sunday. Anxious people formed queues at banks to exchange and deposit their demonetised Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes and […]

Bhubaneswar: Post Interim Budget, Sensex ended 212.74 points higher at 36,469.43 while Nifty rose 62.70 points to 10,893.65… And Union Minister Ram Vilas Paswan somehow seemed right in calling the Interim Budget 2019-20 the ‘second surgical strike’ by the Narendra Modi government. Paswan said, “The first surgical strike was on the border. Soldiers fought it […]

By Sandeep Sahu A disclaimer at the outset: this columnist is an illiterate in economics and financial matters. But since writing on something else would be nothing short of blasphemy on a day when the whole nation has been thrown into a tizzy following the announcement on the demonetization of currency notes of Rs 500 […]

Islamabad: Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Tuesday pledged that his government will act against any Pakistani national found involved in the suicide bombing in Jammu and Kashmir if India provided “actionable intelligence”. In a nationwide broadcast, Khan also said that Pakistan will have no option but to retaliate if India mounted a military strike […]

New Delhi: A group of 12 Mirage 2000 jets of Indian Air Force (IAF) dropped 1,000 kg bombs on a terror camp and destroyed it completely across the Line of Control (LoC), confirmed Foreign Secretary Vijay Gokhale today. As per reports, the attack took place around 3:30 am today morning. Balakot, Chakothi and Muzaffarabad terror launch […]

The Indian Air Force on Tuesday destroyed a terror camp across the Line of Control (LoC). Following the attack Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi summoned an emergency meeting in Islamabad to discuss security situation. India Foreign Secretary Vijay K. Gokhale told the media that the “non-military pre-emptive action was specifically targeted at the terrorist camp” […]

Balasore: Amidst prevailing tension between India and Pakistan, security has been beefed up at the Integrated Test Range (ITR) in Chandipur, Balasore. Speaking exclusively to OTV, Director of ITR, Binay Kumar, informed that extra security measures have been put in place at the ITR adding that electronic fencing, coastal surveillance radars, infrared imagery and total […]