Kargil 25 years: Pervez Musharraf’s audacious night stay across LoC
Jun 26, 2024During the Kargil war, the Pakistan Army chief's unprecedented visit to Indian territory led to scrutiny and criticism, shedding light on the intricate details of the cross-border operations.
He lay dead in Kargil cave, she shunned money, waited 2 yrs
Jul 26, 2023 In the ending weeks of the Kargil war as silence regained its sovereignty over the monkish mountains, a grotesque tussle commenced between the two armies. It was a battle over bodies. The Pakistan Army refused to accept most of their dead so Indian soldiers had to bury them at astounding heights with religious honours and under the gaze of the international media. But a tragic episode that went unnoticed all these 24 years was the plight of a doughty wife of an Indian soldier, who had gone missing in action in those very heights and later declared, "Missing, Presumed Killed in Action". His body could not be found despite his battalion searching the crags and crevices with a fine comb and a hound's nose.
Python rocks & rolls across Chandigarh Golf Club again
Oct 9, 2021If birdies, eagles and albatrosses denote excellence in the pursuit of golf, the 2nd and 3rd holes at the fabled Chandigarh Golf Club can be christened the ‘python holes’! A 6-foot Rock python was discovered in the roughs flanking the left bunker at the par 3, 3rd hole, by greenskeepers who were in the process of removing the debris of a fallen ‘papri’ tree in preparation for next week’s Hero Ladies Professional Golf Tour.
Chandigarh: ‘Bofors shells falling upon us were loveliest sounds of my life’
Jun 29, 2022 It is not for nothing that artillery is known as the ‘god of war’, infantry as the ‘queen’ and armoured corps as the ‘king of battle’.
23 yrs of Wandhama massacre and reply to terror
Feb 13, 2021As you read the newspaper this morning, 23 years back to the time a bloody battle was on in the high snows of the Kashmir valley
Chandigarh: Iconic Jeev Milkha Singh brand all set to grace golf club greens
Nov 7, 2021The Rs 1.5 crore Jeev Milkha Singh Invitational by TAKE, reckoned as the “Indian Major championship” on the domestic Tata Steel-PGTI tour, is all set for its fourth edition to be spearheaded by international golfers Gaganjeet Bhullar and Shiv Kapur along with Olympians to boot, SSP Chawrasia and Udayan Mane.
Decoding the delightful babble of our gardens
May 31, 2019These birds of Tricity gardens unfailingly catch the human eye and ear. They are the famous ‘Seven Sisters’, moving around in squeaky, noisy groups and flipping leaves for insects and worms with a deftness reminiscent of a professional gambler flicking cards at a Las Vegas casino!
Battle-hardy donkey showed soldiers way across ibex cliff
Jul 25, 2022 Brigade Major M Indrabalan was frozen with fear as he pressed his body against a virtually-perpendicular ice-ridden cliff. He dare not glance at his feet below for fear of losing balance. His toes squirmed as they fought for every inch of toehold afforded by the thinnest of cliff ledges.
Stalwart of Chandigarh’s greening passes away
May 10, 2021Hardial Singh Johl, a stalwart among landscape designers who virtually knew each nook where a rare tree was planted since the City Beautiful’s inception, passed away on Sunday morning at his Kishangarh orchard-cum-farmhouse following a prolonged illness aggravated by Covid complications.
Pakistani pickle was subdued flavour of victory at Kargil
Jul 27, 2020At those austere heights where neither bird nor beast had dwelled, the Indian Army conquered the Kargil peaks. Blood trailed the steep slopes they had ascended under fire and Pakistani heads tumbled down past them into the nallahs on moonlit nights when Gurkha and Naga troops unleashed their regimental khukris and cleavers.
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