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Saturday, December 13, 2025
TopicSiachen

Topic: Siachen

The barely told stories of Indian and Pakistani spies making peace while waging war

Some untold or barely told stories of Indian and Pakistani spymasters making peace on the sidelines of war.

How India beat Pakistan to gain control of the world’s highest battlefield 34 years ago

On 13 April 1985, India launched Operation Meghdoot to wrest control of Siachen Glacier and gain a strategic upper hand on Pakistan.

India’s first pilot to land on Siachen recounts how his life was saved by Army comrades

An Air Force officer recalls a ‘dangerous and stupid’ sortie he undertook on the world’s highest battlefield.

Surviving on milk powder and willpower, six Indian soldiers held a peak on Siachen for half a year

A general recounts the tale of how as a young captain, he and five soldiers manned a post on a peak 20,000 feet above sea level for six gruelling months.

How India realised it was at risk of losing the Siachen glacier to Pakistan

April 1984 saw the Indian Army, supported by the IAF, launch an audacious and preemptive operation to occupy the Saltoro Ridge and dominate the Siachen Glacier. These vignettes are a tribute to that operation.

India caught off-guard by Chinese road in Shaksgam Valley near Siachen

ThePrint reported in January about the new road and PLA posts north of Siachen; Army chief Gen. Rawat had said no work was going on in the area.

It was Pranab Mukherjee who opposed demilitarisation of Siachen in 2006: former NSA

The former national security advisor countered the former Foreign Secretary on a crucial Cabinet Committee on Security meeting on Siachen and Pakistan

On Camera

India’s aviation crisis is all about too big to tame

Nobody is safe in a market where competition is stunted and choice limited. For the industry, meaningful reform will have to start with the government itself.

South rising, west slipping: India’s export map is being redrawn, shows RBI data

Data shows re-alignment in India’s exports, with Tamil Nadu & Telangana posting strong growth in 2024-25 as traditional heavyweights Gujarat & Maharashtra see declines. Gujarat still leads, though.

US clears $686-mn package to breathe fresh life into Pakistani F-16s

Of the total package, $649 million will be utilised for additional hardware, software, and support services, and the remaining for Major Defence Equipment (MDE).

India’s top airline just handed sarkar the keys. That’s IndiGo’s real ‘crime’

Don’t blame misfortune. This is colossal incompetence and insensitivity. So bad, heads would have rolled even in the old PSU-era Indian Airlines and Air India.