Lt Gen Ranbir Singh, General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Northern Command, chaired the meeting as curfew-like restrictions remained in force in Jammu and Kashmir.
Six IAF personnel, one civilian were killed as an Mi-17 chopper was shot down in Kashmir on 27 February while Indian and Pakistan air forces were locked in a dogfoght 100 km away.
The accused, identified as Abdul Majeed Baba, will be produced before the Chief Judicial Magistrate of Srinagar and brought to Delhi on transit remand.
Voter turnout may have been dismal in Kashmir but Lok Sabha polls passed off without any major incidents of violence, thanks to a slew of security measures.
It is necessary to break the spell of socialist dogma on the imagination of those attracted by its Utopia as the only scientific way of progress, wrote MA Venkatarao in 1963.
While bond yields tend to fall amid low inflation & interest rate cuts, market experts say they’ve been rising due to concerns over tax collections, fiscal deficit & potential impact of US tariffs.
It is one of the most advanced long-range air defence and anti-missile radars. It has been acquired under an about USD 145-million deal signed in 2020.
To be truly functional and durable, even eternal, a state doesn’t just need a leader, a party or an ideology. It needs functional and robust institutions.
Everything should pay for itself. Very dovish on human rights, a hawk on the fisc.