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Kashmir 2010 to Delhi 2026—RAF’s pellet gun use shows crowd control measures are still failing

On 20 July, the Rapid Action Force fired pellets at Jantar Mantar protesters, leaving at least four injured.

Mehar Singh, the RIAF pilot with heart of a Bengal tiger, who flew like a Himalayan eagle

Mehar never thought he would die in an aircraft. He used to say 'Old pilots never die; they just fade away.'

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Despite PM Modi’s appeal to cut fertiliser use, farmers show no sign of scaling back—Parliament data

Combined sales of urea, DAP, MOP and complex fertilisers rose 25 percent in April even as Modi asked farmers to cut chemical fertiliser use by up to half to save soil and foreign exchange

Gen VN Sharma, who led Army in the turbulent late eighties, dies at 97

Hailing from an illustrious military family, he was son of Maj Gen Amar Nath Sharma. His eldest brother Maj Som Nath Sharma is the first recipient of the posthumous Param Vir Chakra.

India’s Gen Z has opened a breach, for BJP to fill or Opposition to widen

The young people broke the self-imposed silence among the elite not to speak a word critical of the Modi government, except to whisper on the sidelines, looking left, right and behind.