If the government of the day would like to set in place a smooth and well-planned changeover and facilitate the incoming chief to chalk out his action plan well in advance, the announcement of a......
'If only Cariappa/Thimayya/Chaudhari/Manekshaw were given a free hand, there'll be no PoK, the Chinese would have been taught a lesson, 1965 would have slain the Pak demon and in 1971 just another......
Lieutenant General Harbakhsh Singh, GOC, Western Command, disobeyed the then army chief and took on a superior Pakistani armoured column. The Indian Centurion tanks outgunned the more modern......
Artillery guns in action in Uri, Poonch sector. All photographs: Sainik Samachar Fifty years ago, India and Pakistan fought a short but bloody war. The author finds out how Sainik Samachar, the......
'Modi's victory is his own victory. Now what he has done thereafter, it seems to me, leads us to believe that he was a bit too prolific with his promises.' 'One achievement of Modi's I will......
Around the time the sixth decade of the last century dawned, there descended on the Delhi scene a strikingly impressive couple: Dr Dharma Jayanti Teja and his attractive wife. The word soon spread......
Two days before his new film Marjaavaan releases in theatres, director Milap Zaveri celebrated his birthday and invited all his friends over. There were no pre-release jitters on his face, as......
Suparn Verma salutes the memory of Mukul Anand, who first made AgneepathWhen I came out watching the new Agneepath the one man who stayed with me for hours after the viewing was Rishi Kapoor.Rishi......
Dinesh RahejaDirector Mahesh Bhatt had once justified Arth, a semi-autobiographical film, saying, "We all borrow from life." But not everybody achieves results quite as cauterising. The theme of......
In an industry keen on playing the numbers game, she is the one on whomeveryone is betting their big bucks. Indeed, Preity Zinta's bag reveals an impressivelist of films-- Hero, Armaan, Koi Mil......
Ignored for India's first Test against the West Indies at home, Harbhajan Singh was named captain of the Punjab Ranji Trophy team that will take on Uttar Pradesh in their opening encounter at......
Struggling to keep hemselves afloat in the competition, Delhi Giants rode on a blazing 53 from Abbas Ali to snatch a nail-biting one-run win over fancied Hyderabad Heroes, who lost four batsmen to......
Breaking the suspense over its recruitment, the Indian Cricket League on Monday unveiled a list of 50 players for its breakaway multi-million dollar venture, which has Pakistan's prolific batsman......