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December 5, 1971, has been written in the golden words in the history of India, as on this day, 120 soldiers of the Indian army fought with 2000-3000 Pakistani soldiers accompanied by 30-40 tanks on the land of Laungewala. Laungewala proved to be one of the defining moments in the war.

“I see this all the time in academia…people conflate their own political views with an evaluation of the health of democracy. I think academics have a real moral responsibility to be careful about not allowing our biases to influence our expert judgements,” said Prof Salvatore Babones in an exclusive interview with Firstpost, while questioning the validity of various established indices.

New Delhi: The date November 17, 1962, will forever be etched in golden letters in the military history of India. On this day, Maha Veer Chakra (MVC) awardee Rifleman Jaswant Singh Rawat truly lived up to the epithet ‘Maha Veer’ by laying down his life after single-handedly holding off hundreds of Chinese soldiers for three days in the icy heights of Arunachal Pradesh during the 1962 war between India and China.

Two doctors were found keeping their mother’s corpse at home in the belief that she can be resurrected through prayers. The family had converted to Christianity recently and had been following the religion rigorously. The corpse was taken to their native for final rites after neighbours informed the police.

Again and again, military men have seen themselves hurled into war by the ambition, passions and blunders of civilian governments, almost wholly uninformed as to the limits of their military potential and almost recklessly indifferent to the military requirements of the war they let loose. —Alfred Vagts, ‘The History of Militarism’ (Max/289)

In a shocking incident, a man named Mohammad Amrish has been accused of raping his granddaughter along with his accomplice Mohd Raza.

"Instead of leader he acted as a politician and made blunders with the theory of probability": Nehru's flawed attitudes towards Communist China and Tibet, the unsettled border in both Aksai Chin & MacMahon line, his 'rigid line' finally led to 1962 war Nehru failed to negotiate with China on a peaceful settlement of borders, which was so vital to India's security. Doing so was not difficult considering that China at that time was not strong, had numerous external and internal problems to contend with, and was therefore willing for a “give and take”, particularly  ‘Aksai  Chin...

After numerous calls for harsh punishments in recent days, the Iranian parliament on Tuesday voted overwhelmingly in favor of the death penalty for protesters.

Ghaziabad police on Monday arrested a woman, who with the help of her boyfriend had killed her husband four years ago and buried his body in her boyfriend’s house. The deceased had officially gone missing four years ago, in the year 2018.