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'19 dead. 53 wounded. The battle was ferocious'

'In the 1971 War my battalion suffered 4 casualties after fighting for 14 days.''In Operation Blue Star, I lost 19 men in just one hour.' IMAGE: Then Lieutenant Colonel Israr Khan (4th from right)......

How The Pakistanis Surrendered In 1971

'We are ready to surrender,' Lieutenant General A A K Niazi said over the phone from Dhaka. IMAGE: Lieutenant General Kuldip Singh Brar (retd). Photograph: Rajesh Karkera/Rediff.com Major General......

Was anti-Maoist operation botched up?

'Counter-insurgency operations cannot be conducted by following inflexible SOPs.''It is unwise to enter jungles with a large body of troops without precise intelligence,' asserts counter-insurgency......

Foiled arms deal behind Nepal massacre?

Revealing a new theory on the 2001 palace massacre, former Nepal king Gyanendra's son Paras has claimed that crown prince Dipendra was not drunk during the killing and a thwarted major arms deal......

12 things you may not know about Apollo 11 mission

It has been a half-century since Neil Armstrong stepped out of a lunar module and onto the surface of the moon on July 20, 1969 and declared, “That's one small step for [a] man, one giant......

Multi-million retirement packages of CEOs

There are some chief executive officers who not only earn multi-million dollar pay every year, but also walk out with massive retirement packages. 24/7 Wall St has reviewed the largest golden......

Google buyout: Motorola Mobility CEO to get $66 mn

Once Internet titan Google's $12.5 billion acquisition of Motorola Mobility is concluded, the cellphone-maker's India-born chief executive officer Sanjay Jha will receive a $66 million 'Golden......

Banks cut bonuses, raise basic pay

With exorbitant executive payouts attracting severe criticism in the wake of the global financial crisis, most banks have reworked their compensation structures, especially cutting down bonuses, a......

Top 5 AIG executives may quit over pay

Five top executives at troubled insurer American International Group said last week they will quit if their compensation is cut significantly by the US pay czar, says a media report. Attributing to......

US okays $700 billion bailout plan

The US Congress and the Bush administration have finally agreed on the language of the $700 billion legislation intended to bail out institutions reeling under the massive financial crisis after a......

Hrithik Roshan's 10 Whistle-Worthy Entries

When Hrithik Roshan enters a film frame, it's like a silver screen wearing sunglasses. (Fighter promos, we are looking at you!) Drama and dynamism envelop the air and a promise of something......

Not shaken, not stirred

So the new James Bond movie is out. Die Another Day hasall the usual ingredients: a deadly megalomaniac with a high-tech weapon; capers in Korea, Cuba and London; a spectacular hovercraft chase......

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