As India commemorates 20 years of the Kargil war in which it successfully drove away Pakistani intruders, the war was quite a learning experience for the Indian troops. Coordination between the Army and the Air Force could have been a lot better and the use of laser-designation systems could have helped pinpoint enemy targets better, as Air Marshal R Nambiar, who was a Wing Commander then, told SNI’s Editor-in-Chief Nitin A. Gokhale in this interview. #India #Kargil #IAF
Swami Dhirendra Shastri called for a meat-free Navratri in Bengal. Parties answered by invoking Shakta tradition. A restricted rite, stripped of its disciplines, has become “culture”, and Bengal uses its first taste of political freedom in decades to flaunt the very decay that helped undo it.
Moscow saw a rare confluence. CIA Director Ratcliffe to warn Putin, Vatican Foreign Minister Gallagher to stop Ukraine war, Indian Foreign Minister with a special message from PM Modi. Meanwhile Russia has destroyed "90% Warehouses" in Ukraine.
