At the Kerala Literature Festival, former NSA Shivshankar Menon thanked god for his retirement. But career diplomats like him never take their finger off the pulse.
In exclusive interview with ThePrint, Indian national Nikhil Gupta says he doesn’t know former R&AW officer Vikash Yadav & that all he needs is a ‘good lawyer to turn this around’.
'Individual' referred to is most likely Vikash Yadav, former R&AW officer whose involvement US had alleged in its first indictment in 'foiled plot to assassinate' the Sikh separatist.
The family has claimed that no one from the Indian government has reached out to them, even his kids have written multiple emails to the authorities, but received no response.
Senior officers at R&AW do not know how to conduct covert operations. Many are police officers who don’t seem to understand the difference between an encounter and a covert hit.
39-year-old Vikash Yadav, a former CRPF and former R&AW agent, made it to the FBI’s most wanted poster, charged with ‘murder for hire’ in connection with an alleged assassination plot against US lawyer Gurpatwant Singh Pannun.
In Episode 1540, Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta looks back at the assassination of Shaurya Chakra awardee Balwinder Singh Sandhu, his family, & their stirring 1990-1991 story.
Though Indian govt has conveyed that it no longer employs Vikash Yadav, US wants speedy probe into plot to assassinate SFJ founder Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, it is learnt.
Chargesheet against Vikash Yadav states that ex-RAW official accused by US in foiled plot to assassinate Pannun admitted to kidnapping and extorting Delhi-based cafe owner.
State Dept says ‘valuable engagement’ took place between US authorities & Indian high-level inquiry committee looking into alleged murder-for-hire plot, and expects to see further steps.
The excessive publicity about Indian success stories and their high income and wealth levels has begun to breed envy and resentment in non-elite Americans.
New bill aims to fix key issues with IBC 2016, including delays & patchy implementation, and protect creditors, with window for genuine promoters to retain control of their companies.
Billed as the military’s own version of Raisina Dialogue, the event will spotlight on tech-driven warfighting, lessons from Operation Sindoor and release of three new doctrines.
Now that both IAF and PAF have made formal claims of having shot down the other’s aircraft in the 87-hour war in May, we can ask a larger question: do such numbers really matter?
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