New Delhi: Six petitioners including former Air Vice Marshal Kapil Kak and Retired Major General Ashok Mehta, have moved the Supreme Court challenging the Jammu & Kashmir (Reorganisation) Act, 2019, and the abrogation of Article 370.
The recent petitions come […]
New Delhi: Six petitioners including former Air Vice Marshal Kapil Kak and Retired Major General Ashok Mehta, have moved the Supreme Court challenging the Jammu & Kashmir (Reorganisation) Act, 2019, and the abrogation of Article 370.
The recent petitions come […]
“No First Use” is a pledge taken by a country to not use nuclear weapons as a means of warfare unless a rival nation resorts to such an action first. China was the first to pass such a resolution after it became a nuclear power in 1964, portraying it as an indication of the “purely […]
Abhijit Iyer-Mitra The announcement of the post of a Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), made by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his Independence Day speech on August 15, is curious. Curious not just because it comes so late, but also because the government thinks it can solve deep human problems in the military through […]
New Delhi: The government is unlikely to announce any economic stimulus before Monday as more meetings are being planned to discuss a package, a government source said. Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday held a meeting with officials to discuss steps to arrest a slowdown, the source added. The source said the government was looking […]
The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) will meet on August 16 morning to discuss Kashmir (India’s abrogation of Article 370), Poland’s mission to the UN confirmed to The Hindu. The Presidency of the UNSC is currently with Poland. The Kashmir discussion will be taken up under the closed consultations format at 10 a.m. local time […]