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Thursday, March 28, 2024
TopicSiachen

Topic: Siachen

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

Social media has made news more graphic. Torture by Russian military is latest example

Before social media, depiction of violence on news was the exception—graphic visuals were either not shown on TV or in newspapers or the images were blurred. This is no longer the case.

Profit margins in lottery industry are tiny. Here’s how Future Gaming paid for its electoral bonds

Neither state govts nor companies earn large profits from lotteries. However, a look at the system shows there’s ample evidence of murky dealings and financial irregularities. 

BRO connects new axis to Ladakh, to be shortest route

The all-weather Nimmu-Padam-Darcha Road will connect Manali to Leh through Darcha and Nimmu on Kargil-Leh Highway.

For BJP, Kejriwal is an idea whose time has come to be destroyed

The ‘idea’ Kejriwal's politics grew around was a no-holds-barred fight against corruption. That is the reason Modi govt has now tarred him and his entire party with the same paint.