ThePrint journalist who travelled to Poonch huddled with others amid relentless shelling. As blasts roared, they chased updates, but as the hours passed, silence fell.
Pakistan launched intense shelling early Wednesday morning in J&K’s Poonch district following India's Operation Sindoor. Civilians, including a woman and 3 children killed.
Hill Kaka, where militants had dug in during early 2003, became the de facto headquarters of Terror Inc. Then the Army launched its biggest pincer movement called Op Sarp Vinash.
The rise in terrorist activities in the area after nearly 15 years is cause for concern for India, with Pakistan seen to be fuelling ambushes in an attempt to worsen the Kashmir problem after the nullification of Article 370.
The US and Israel’s assassinations of Iranian leadership ended up bestowing martyrdom on those killed. Shias saw the deaths as a continuity of martyrdom from the Battle of Karbala.
India’s fast-growing data centre sector may strain state electricity networks; Central Electricity Authority has urged Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Tamil Nadu to boost capacity.
Theaterisation, which aims to divide the forces into three theatres with specific areas of responsibility, will become the single most far-reaching reform that the Indian military has witnessed since independence.
China patiently invested capital, skill and technology in coal gasification. Unlike it, we won’t move from words to action. As crude prices decline, we lose interest.
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