New Delhi: A complaint by a Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) officer staying at the organisation's guest house at the Pokhran Field Firing...
Blackout was enforced from 8 May to 11 May in Pokharan. All the shops were shut by 5 p.m. in this period. Pokharan was not targeted in 1965 or 1971, says shop owner Om Prakash.
It was clear to Rajagopala Chidambaram that India needed time and could not go along with the Geneva negotiations in 1996. Accordingly, India withdrew.
If war remains within the realm of human society, it can still involve issues of proportionality, morality, human rights, and the most human act of all—bargaining.
Would it have been so simple for Putin’s Russia to crush Zelenskyy’s Ukraine if it hadn’t given up its nuclear stockpile in 1994? India was prescient to declare itself a nuclear-armed state.
The story of how India got its nuclear weapons must be retold now as it underlines the incredible bipartisanship demonstrated by 7 governments and prime ministers.
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.
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.
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