OPINION

The Operation Enduring Freedom is as good as over. As the foreign combat troops prepare to go back home at the end of this month, the responsibility for peacemaking and ensuring the safety and security of the people of Afghanistan will squarely lie with the Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF) hampered by a shortage of arms and ammunition.

After more than a decade of intense fighting, the US and NATO forces are in the fag-end of leaving war torn Afghanistan. A prime concern in everyone’s minds is whether the proud Afghans would be able to rebuild an efficient and people friendly system of governance or Afghanistan would once again go back to being safe havens for the Taliban and al-Qaeda to launch terror attacks? A durable peace and stability is the only hope for Afghanistan precariously perched on the edge of violence and tranquility.  

Jihad is one of the most misunderstood concepts in Islam. There is no such thing as holy war, in Islam.The Quran and Sunnah encourage Muslims to respect the life and property of all mankind.

FDI in armament technology and production of arms for exports cannot be an end in itself as every policy decision is required to be linked to the needs of the people.

Was there a British angle in Mahatma's assassination? Another indication of a British hand in the plot was Apte’s refusal, at the height of the Great Depression, of a full-time job in the Royal Indian Air Force.The most likely explanation is that he was probably already occupied -- as a British agent. Maharashtra ATS Chief Hemant Karkare’s investigation into that nexus was cut short when he was killed in the September 2008 attack on Mumbai, giving rise to a widespread belief that the attack was primarily aimed at eliminating him.

Love China or hate China, there is no way Indian's can afford to ignore China’s presence around them in business, war, and peace. Since there will never be NO China, the only alternative is to KNOW China. It's time people in India as well as China realized the importance of knowing the history and socioeconomic subtleties, as well as each other’s mindset, behavior, business etiquettes and cultural nuances

If death is the be all and end all and it can kill anyone, anytime, then why should we bother about doing good deeds and fear punishment for our sins?

At the Rio Olympics in 2016, we got the 67th position with just got two medals, silver and bronze but none in any team event. Even countries as small as even Singapore was ahead of us.

There have been large and violent agitations in France in Nov 2019 where thousands of tractors marched into Paris. On 27 Apr 2010, tractors on the France roads had slogan painted, “Carla, help us. We can’t live on love and water”. (Carla Bruni was the wife of the President of France, Nicholas Sarkozy.) It has been happening in Germany, Netherland, Denmark, and Ireland.

As anticipated, affordable housing and rental housing got a big boost with the govt. extending the period for extra deduction of INR 1.5 lakh available for loans up to 31st March 2022.

Drones offer small countries very cheap access to tactical aviation and Precision Guided Weapons, enabling them to destroy an opponent’s much costlier equipment such as tanks and AD system