Balakot Airstrikes

Pakistan denies Ram Nath Kovind’s request to use its airspace for Iceland visit in view of tensions over Jammu and Kashmir

Pakistan has refused a request by India to allow President Ram Nath Kovind to use its airspace for his flight to Iceland, Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi said on Saturday

Key Balakot air strikes planner Samant Goel is new R&AW chief; Arvind Kumar takes over as Intelligence Bureau director

Before replacing Anil Dhasmana as R&AW chief, Samant Goel was heading operations for the external spy agency and was instrumental in planning the 26 February Balakot air strikes as well as the 2016 surgical strikes carried out in retaliation to the terror attack at Uri brigade.

Integrated Battle Groups expected to be game changers for Indian Army, alter war strategy and allow for better mobilisation of troops

The Indian Army has decided to establish three new battle formations — Integrated Battle Groups (IBGs) along the border with Pakistan by October and later along the China frontier.

India's 'social media sena's' reaction to Pakistan ad mocking Abhinandan Varthaman is self-righteousness on steroids

So when a Pakistan TV channel released an ad featuring a mock interrogation between When a Pakistan TV channel released an ad featuring a mock interrogation between Pakistani officials and an actor playing Commander Varthaman, it was bound to make India’s always-on-the-ready 'Social Media Sena' take immediate umbrage and cry foul over Pakistan’s shameful, rude, insensitive, etc., etc., behaviour for allowing such an offending ad to be aired in the first place.Pakistani officials and an actor playing Commander Varthaman, it was bound to make India’s always-on-the-ready 'Social Media Sena' take immediate umbrage and cry foul over Pakistan’s shameful, rude, insensitive, etc., etc., behaviour for allowing such an offending ad to be aired in the first place.

J&K: Quiet summer may be precursor to stable future as India upped retaliatory benchmark with Balakot strike

By comparison, Jammu and Kashmir is currently undergoing relative stability after a fairly tumultuous situation during late winter and early spring. Experience from the past reveals that traditionally when the durbar returns to Srinagar in May, it is the time when the race for infiltration of terrorists from Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir into the Kashmir Valley picks up momentum.

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No wonder that the Modi government has been doing everything possible — fudging, cover-up, window-dressing and what not — to come clean on the job front.

Boost to BJP from airstrikes waning ahead of polls; farmers’ crisis, unemployment back on voters’ minds: CVoter survey

Pollsters say the airstrikes and nationalist rhetoric had diverted attention away from socio-economic issues, but the latest numbers suggest these might be back on voters' minds.

What is National Command Authority: Imran Khan convenes meeting of Pakistan's apex nuclear body after Balakot air strikes

Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan has called for a meeting of the National Command Authority (NCA) in the aftermath of India's pre-emptive, non-military air strike at terror camps in and around Balakot in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.