| Kargil scam: CBI files fresh status report in SC | 06-NOV-09 |
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| CBI has filed a fresh status report before the Supreme Court into alleged irregularities in defence deals, which caused a loss of around Rs 2,000 crore to the state exchequer, entered into in the wake of the 1999 Kargil conflict. |
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| Needed: a privacy law | 29-SEP-09 |
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| The Kargil review committee went into the failure to share intelligence, seen as one of the causes of the Kashmir war, and recommended corrective action. The government then decided to set up a Multi-Agency Centre (Mac) to coordinate and share intelligence available with the different agencies, including the Intelligence Bureau, the Research and Analysis Wing and Military Intelligence. It was also decided that a National Intelligence Grid (Nig) would be set up at a subsequent stage. Nothing happened for many years, until the Mumbai attack of last year, which was seen as having resulted from yet another failure of intelligence coordination. A new home minister took charge, and soon there was action. |
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| 10 yrs after Kargil, Bofors upgrade hangs fire | 20-JUL-09 |
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| On the tenth anniversary of the Kargil conflict, the gun that did so much to facilitate that victory — the 155 mm Bofors FH-77B — could be staring at a major setback. With India’s artillery modernisation programme already stalled, the plan to refurbish and upgrade India’s old 155 mm FH-77B Bofors guns also seems headed for failure. |
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| Madhukar Sabnavis: Get into culture | 03-JUL-09 |
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| An NRI family was coming home to visit siblings in India. My friend couldn’t resist noticing that instead of mixing with their local relatives, the NRI family stuck to each other. It made him remark, “Through the visit, my brother’s family stuck to each other like Fevicol.” A brand and its advertising had suddenly become a part of everyday language usage. My friend was far removed from advertising and marketing. |
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| Villages pip urban India in services sector: Study | 27-FEB-09 |
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| Contrary to the popular and traditional perception that villages facilitate mainly agricultural activities, rural India also has a major contribution in the services sector, housing 60 per cent of the total enterprises in the country, a study has said. |
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| Editorial: Continuing to self-destruct | 12-DEC-08 |
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| Pakistan never seems to learn that the more it tries to harm India, the more it harms itself. The history of that country’s aggression against India provides repeated evidence of this. |
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| Panel moots commercial flights to Kargil | 20-JUN-08 |
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Finding a tourist upsurge in the terrorism-torn Jammu and Kashmir, a parliamentary standing committee has asked the central government to start commercial flights for Kargil, the border town better known as the hot-spot of the last Indo-Pak war. |
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| Lack of visualisation led to Kargil: Malik | 18-JUN-08 |
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General V P Malik, who headed the army during the Kargil war, has blamed the lack of visualisation of security threats by the then government as one of the main reasons for the 1999 conflict. |
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| Sharif initially kept in dark about Kargil | 03-JUN-08 |
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Former premier Nawaz Sharif was kept in the dark initially about the Pakistan Army's plan to intrude into the Kargil but he later gave conditional support to the operation, a former aide of President Pervez Musharraf has said. |
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| CAG: How not to prepare for another Kargil | 18-MAR-08 |
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| In 2001, George Fernandes was in the cross hairs of the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) over the purchase of allegedly overpriced coffins for soldiers killed in battle.
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| Sharif admits he 'let down' Vajpayee during Kargil | 10-SEP-07 |
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| On the eve of his return home, former Pakistan prime minister Nawaz Sharif vowed to set up a commission to fix responsibility for the tragic Kargil conflict even as he admitted that he let down |
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| Ajai Shukla: No strategy, no consensus, no plan | 10-OCT-06 |
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| The inglorious build-up to the 1999 Kargil war is back in the headlines. In a literary version of the seven-year itch, the opposing army chiefs who directed that war, Generals Pervez Musharraf and VP |
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| Read it, forget it | 29-SEP-06 |
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| Soon after General Pervez Musharraf seized power in Pakistan through a coup in October 1999, a former Indian intelligence official wrote a personality profile of the new man in power. One sentence |
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