As the National Security Council completes 20 years, India’s first Deputy National Security Adviser Satish Chandra says the institution has gradually evolved and expanded as it should and is doing a great job. In an exclusive interview with SNI’s Editor-in-Chief Nitin A. Gokhale, Chandra looks back at the formative years of the organisation and why the need for it arose. #NSA #India #defence
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.
