55-year-old Sarla Ben & her granddaughter were at the hostel mess of BJ Medical College at the time of the crash, say family members, and have been missing ever since.
Just a year after joining militancy, LeT operative Junaid Ahmad Bhat had already been involved in several terror attacks in J&K, including Ganderbal tunnel attack in October.
NCRB statistics show that of the 3.42 lakh people still missing and untraced by the end of 2021, around 87 per cent or 2.98 lakh were adults — children accounting for only 13 per cent.
Boxers Suleman Baloch & Nazeer Ullah were reported missing a few hours before the Pakistani squad, which consisted of five boxers and four officials, was to depart for Islamabad.
Journalist Dom Phillips and activist Bruno Pereira were reportedly documenting impact of cocaine trafficking and illegal poaching on the rainforest when they went missing on 5 June.
Nalin Chauhan, deputy director with Delhi govt’s Directorate of Information and Publicity, had just recovered from Covid-19, but family claims he was under stress.
In a seminal work, former military officers Lt. Gen. D.S. Hooda & Lt. Col. Pavithran Rajan put forth a framework to approach cognitive warfare, called Socio-Technical-Cognitive Battlespace.
India, China and Russia share more contradictions than congruence. Each has a different worldview, as also a different adversary. The rude fact is that BRICS is the most irrelevant of all such groupings.
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