Minutes after the IC 814 landed at Amritsar airport, makeshift communication was established between local authorities and CMG in Delhi—but lack of specific instructions botched the operation.
In a 2003 interview with Shekhar Gupta, the late Brajesh Mishra, former national security adviser, reflects on how the week of IC 814 hijack & negotiations in December 1999 unfolded.
#BoycottNetflix was trending on X and several users criticised ‘IC 814,’ saying it ‘showed hijackers in a positive light and misled audiences into thinking they were Hindu.’
Nobody involved with the show seems to have any idea of how the intelligence agencies or the Government of India function. Or, for that matter, newspaper offices.
Makers of Netflix show accused of 'whitewashing' religion of the 5 Pakistanis by not using their actual names, referring to them only as ‘Chief’, ‘Doctor’, ‘Burger’, ‘Bhola’ & ‘Shankar’.
For the plaintiffs, the issue is also how terms like ‘services rendered’, ‘debit and credit’, and such terminology are represented in 'Tribhuvan Mishra CA Topper'.
Journalist Uday Mahurkar, founder of Save Culture Save Bharat foundation, has written to govt seeking ban on Netflix & X to make India ‘world’s first sexually perverted content-free nation’.
In the world of ‘revenge bodies’ and ‘weight loss journeys’, it is wonderful to be unabashedly worshipped for one’s curves, as Colin does for Penelope in the famous ‘mirror scene’.
We are unable to look away from murder-accused Indrani Mukerjea out on bail, or at the dissonance between the gravity of her alleged crimes and the levity of her current public demeanour.
Munir indicates that he’s willing to go for broke, even if it risks taking his country “and half the world” down with him. It’s important to understand where he is coming from.
India’s industrial output growth saw a 10-month low in June, with Index of Industrial Production (IIP) growing by mere 1.5% as against 1.9% in May 2025.
Gen Dwivedi framed Op Sindoor not just as retaliation to Pahalgam, but as demonstration of India’s capability to fight multi-domain conflicts with integration between services & agencies.
Standing up to America is usually not a personal risk for a leader in India. Any suggestions of foreign pressure unites India behind who they see as leading them in that fight.
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