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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......

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......

A life in photos: George H W Bush

With a rich political and personal legacy, former United States President George Herbert Walker Bush left no shortage of memorable images from his time in and out of office.'Pappy' Bush passed into......

I'm willing to bet there is no case against Chanda Kochhar

'... not even a moral one, let alone a legal one.''Even if it is assumed that Deepak Kochhar tried to influence his wife into doing something dodgy for his 'social acquaintance', why would she do......

Mallya's 'sweetheart deal' faces Sebi scrutiny

Such an exit arrangement is commonly known in the business parlance as 'golden parachute' or 'sweetheart deal' Vijay Mallya's Rs 515-crore (Rs 5.15 billion) 'golden parachute' to exit United......

Prem Watsa's role in BlackBerry chief's salary under lens

Months before Fairfax Financial Holdings Inc bid $4.7 billion for BlackBerry Ltd, Fairfax boss Prem Watsa played a role in securing a golden parachute worth as much as $55 million for the......

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......

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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