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Monday, March 16, 2026
TopicPakistan border

Topic: Pakistan border

Beating Retreat to resume at Pakistan border after almost 2-week hiatus, handshake remains suspended

The scaled-down ceremony is being resumed after it was halted on 7 May, when India launched Op Sindoor, and Pakistan retaliated, resulting in escalated tensions at the border.

India-Pakistan tensions: Rajasthan allocates funds, appoints officials to bolster border preparedness

Bhajan Lal govt has appointed 9 RAS officers in Jaisalmer, Bikaner & Barmer. Vacant posts of firemen in districts bordering Pakistan have been filled & govt employees’ leaves cancelled.

3 teens, 1 mistake: Pakistani juveniles stuck in India despite orders for release, had strayed over LoC

Khayam Maqsood, Asmad Ali & Ahsan Anwar all accidentally crossed over into India on 3 different days. They are lodged at an observation home in J&K's Poonch.

Kargil hero R Nambiar takes over as chief of Western Air Command along Pakistan border

Air Marshal Nambiar, a second generation airman, was heading the Eastern Air Command. He is an experimental test pilot and has flown 42 types of aircraft.

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Gulf conflict pushes Dubai diamond traders to eye Surat for rough stone auctions. But there are hurdles

Industry leaders say India’s complicated customs process and GST levies are deterrents for traders to come to Surat for auctions.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.