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Can you buy property in Kashmir yet? by The Economic Times
How good is a rate cut in a slowing economy? by The Economic Times
Article 370 revocation: Who said what by The Economic Times
End of Article 370: The road ahead for Kashmir by The Economic Times
Captain Neikezhakuo Kenguruse, the only Maha Vir Chakra awardee from ASC, climbed barefoot in minus 10°C, shot two inflitrators and hacked two others to death in hand to hand combat before a torrent of bullets tossed him off of the cliff.
India was recording victories on all fronts, be it the Kargil war, Cricket World Cup or Wimbledon.
Remembering 20 years of an epic battle
The battle that paved the way for India’s victory during the Kargil war was the one fought on the hill of Tololing. A strategic stronghold, Tololing turned the tide for the Indian Army.
Bofors, which have remained the Congress' Achilles heel since the 80's, were the army's mainstay and the battle-winning guns of the Kargil War.
With both sides having incurred massive casualties, the Indian navy stepped up to put a conclusive end to the Kargil conflict in a tactical masterstroke.
On June 24, 1999, the Air Force sent out a pilot tasked with bombing Point 4388 in Kargil. But the pilot ended up aiming at a Pakistani military base in Gulteri. Fortunately, the flight systems were designed as one pilot had to go first and set the target and then another plane would follow that had the actual fireworks.
On a mission to take out Pakistani outposts, an Indian pilot was captured and tortured by the enemy. International pressure and backdoor diplomacy was the only way Flight Lieutenant Kambampati Nachiketa was returned to India.
An inhospitable graveyard at half the height of Everest. A death toll so high that the government had to include the cost of coffins in their budget. A victory painstakingly achieved, territory recaptured yard by yard. That was the Kargil conflict.
The high thrum of shelling reverberated in thin air as men of the Indian Army climbed a straight cliff of about 1000 ft, the last leg of a 16,700 feet height. An entire contingent of Pakistani Army was up there, responding in kind to the shelling from the Indian plains ahead. The game was afoot.
The price of being an atheist in India by The Economic Times
A man from Mumbai just did. 27-year-old Raphael Samuel says he was made to be born into our chaotic world of despair, all without his consent.
A fight, a dramatic capture and some scary posturing. We try to put together the tense moments between India and Pakistan on the morning of February 27.
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