Implement cow slaughter ban in Arunachal, says APCC president

The banned United Liberation Front of Asom (Independent) has allegedly served an extortion notice on former Arunachal Pradesh minister Bida Taku, demanding Rs 10 lakh.

'Little did those in India's strategic community realise that any wise adversary in China's place and circumstances would only take the land route to disturb and trouble India.''It is along the land border that all of India's post-Cold War allies would be of little or no political and diplomatic, and least of all, military help,' says N Sathiya Moorthy. IMAGE: Indian and Chinese soldiers march during the India-China military exercises in Kunming, China, October 2015. Photograph: Kind courtesy, ...

'When war is thrust on you as in 1962 and 1965 or is tempting as in 1971, ensure that all other fronts are kept quiet, leaving your army free to deal with one,' says Shekhar Gupta. General Bipin Rawat's statement that his army is prepared for a two-and-a-half front war has drawn a fair bit of comment. The fact is, India has faced multiple and multi-layered threats since 1959 and its army has been the political leadership's go-to option. With one exception, 1962, it has delivered each time.

The Naga People's Front (NPF) today alleged that Nagaland Governor P B Acharya had played a partisan role in installing the T R Zeliang government in the state. "The haste with which he has acted favouring the RSS- friendly dispensation should be a wake up ...

India should get ready for an all-out confrontation along the entire stretch of the disputed boundary with China, the countrys state media said on Tuesday, threatening to open up new fronts of conflict on the 3,488 km non-demarcated border between the two countries.China isnt afraid to go to war with India and will be ready for a long-term confrontation, the Global Times comment piece said.The threat of new geographical points of conflict being opened up along the Line of Actual Control ...

'When sensitive territory goes into the hands of your enemy. he becomes more powerful in military terms.''Assuming the Chinese take over the Doklam Plateau they will not stop at that.''They will keep ingressing, and it will be easier for them to further expand their territory.''I feel the Chinese will vacate that area in two months after it begins to snow.' Lieutenant General Dr D B Shekatkar (retd), PVSM, AVSM, AVSM, was in charge of the entire China front in Arunachal Pradesh during the ...

New Delhi [India], July 17 (ANI): Five years after the 1962 Sino-Indian war, following a fierce skirmish and retaliation by the Indian Army at Sikkim in 1967, the 4057-kilometer-long complex and perception-based Line of Control (LAC), has been managed by both ...

'I am sure the BJP can find a highly educated, respected, non-controversial party man from the North East to be elected India's vice-president,' says Sudhir Bisht. A few weeks ago, on a flight from Delhi to Kolkata, a bright young girl was seated next to me in the aircraft. She was a pleasant co-passenger who apologised to me as I got up from my aisle seat to make way for her to get inside the narrow passage between the front row and ours. She apologised again when she had to go to the toilet ...

'Does the Indian army's new assertiveness risk a clash escalating into shooting and possibly skirmishes?' asks Ajai Shukla. IMAGE: Chinese soldiers guard the Nathu La mountain pass. Photograph: Desmond Boylan/Reuters The territorial and boundary dispute between India and China is a complex, historical, multi-layered wrangle across a sprawling 3,500 kilometre-long border. Yet, a relatively simple disagreement has brought patrols from both armies eyeball-to-eyeball on the Sikkim-Tibet border ...