Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat meets members of the Tri-Service Band during the Golden Jubilee of India’s victory over Pakistan in the Indo-Pak War, at India Gate in ...
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The Indo-Pak war surrender in 1971, a major national feat under Indira
Guadalcanal (1942-1943)
The campaign launched US into an early offensive in the Pacific, preventing Japan from extending its defense to the south and threatening sea lanes connecting the US with Australia...
Pearl Harbor (1941)
The ephemeral tactical victory proved to be strategic catastrophe for Japan after it struck at the US Pacific Fleet. The set of events in its wake brought into motion an expansion ...
Battle of Tsushima(1905)
The tsar’s Baltic fleet undertook a 20,000 mile voyage before it reached the Far East and was intercepted by Japanese Admiral Heihachiro Togo’s fleet between Japan and Korea, h...
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Battle of the Yalu (1894)
China’s Beiyang Fleet was met in battle at the Korean west coast by imperial Japan’s navy and defeated, overturning Asia’s Sinocentric order. Coming in the wake of a series o...
The Battle of Swally (1612)
This naval battle took place off the coast of Swally near Surat in Gujarat between the English East India Company and the Portuguese. The English victory in this relatively small n...
Battle of Diu (1509)
This naval battle fought in the Arabian Sea and won by the Portuguese against a combined fleet of the Gujarat Sultan, Mamluk Burji of Egypt, Zamorin of Calicut and supported by th...
Ex service people gather near War memorial India Gate, as they pay tribute to Kargil martyrs during Kargil War anniversary in New Delhi.
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Bangladeshi policemen escort Shamsul Haque, third from left, after he was sentenced to life until death for his alleged involvement in war crimes in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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People with their luggage gather outside the gate seeking shelter in the WFP compound in Juba. Heavy explosions are shaking South Sudan's capital Juba as clashes between government...
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Visitors are reflected in the Vietnam Memorial in Washington, USA.
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Abandoned motorcycles at the British military base in Episkopi near the southern coastal city of Limassol in the Mediterranean island of Cyprus. The cars were abandoned by Turkish...
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People stand around damages made by a Saudi-led airstrike on a bridge in Sanaa, Yemen. Yemen has been left fragmented by war pitting Shiite Houthi rebels and military units loyal t...
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Men inspect a house destroyed by Saudi-led airstrikes in Sanaa, Yemen.
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People inspect the site of a house damaged by Saudi-led airstrikes in Sanaa, Yemen. According to U.N. figures, the war in Yemen has killed at least 5,884 people since March 2015, w...
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Rolling Thunder A US army chopper flies over the bodies of Viet Cong guerrillas near Tan Phu village
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Afghan migrants arrive on the shores of the Greek island of Lesbos after crossing the Aegean sea from Turkey on an overcrowded dinghy.
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Apr 28, ’75 A north Vietnamese shell explodes on Newport bridge near Saigon, as soldiers and newsmen run for cover
India's multi-sectoral battle plans for East Pakistan converged on Dacca—this utimate prize was fiercely defended. Fighting against time and a determined enemy, this is how it was won.
Pakistan’s egregious folly in its eastern wing sparked a socio-political crisis of biblical magnitude. The resultant war with India birthed Bangladesh. At the dawn of the 1971 war’s golden jubilee, we remember the Indian military’s finest hour.
The centennial commemoration of the Anglo-Kuki war and the politics associated with it reflects a silent but strong ethnic animosity among different communities in Manipur.
Uttar Pradesh Governor Anandiben Patel and Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath expressed profound grief over the death of Rasoolan Bibi and extended their condolences to the bereaved family.
Unicef Executive Director, Henrietta Fore, said that these were verified figures, but the numbers were "likely much higher," and called for support for the donors' conference in Brussels which starts on Tuesday
An assistant professor at the Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT) was sacked from her post in the Bhubaneshwar based University after she appeared an Odia TV channel discussion on the Pulwama attack and said that India should not go to war with Pakistan.
The Pakistan Army on Friday said the country does not wish for war amidst heightened tensions between the two sides following the Pulwama terror attack that killed 40 CRPF soldiers.
Xi Jinping also signed his first military order of 2019, giving priority to improving training, with special focus on preparing for combat, drills, inspection of troops and endurance exercises
Despite international outcry over the fairness of the trials, there is strong domestic support for the judicial process to ensure justice for millions of people impacted during the nine-month-long 1971 war of liberation.
The documentary is unprecedented and path-breaking in the history of Indian cinema. Not only does it recount in very great detail one of the most gallant and famous battles of the Indian Army in the 1962 war but it also examines the backdrop to that war," said Major Bakshi.
Save the Children, a UK -based charity said that based on historical studies if acute malnutrition was left untreated, around 20-30 per cent of children would die each year.