Budget 2018-19

  Confusion prevailed over the death toll in firing by security forces on civilians in Nagaland’s Mon district, with a tribal body claiming that 17 people were killed, but later revised the figure to 14 Confusion prevailed Monday over the death toll in firing by security forces on civilians in Nagaland’s Mon district, with a tribal body claiming that 17 people were killed, but later revised the figure to 14. Police, however, has maintained that 14 civilians were killed in separate incidents of firing on Saturday and Sunday. The first incident in which six civilians were killed, occurred when army personnel mistook coal mine workers returning home in a pick-up van on Saturday evening, to be insurgents belonging to the Yung Aung faction of the banned outfit NSCN (K). As workers failed to reach their homes, local youth and villagers went in search of them and surrounded the army vehicles. In the ensuing melee, one soldier was killed and army vehicles burnt down. Soldiers who fired in ...

  The 13th round of military talks between India and China did not produce any resolution of the remaining issues in eastern Ladakh, the Indian Army said on Monday a day after the dialogue. The 13th round of military talks between India and China did not produce any resolution of the remaining issues in eastern Ladakh, the Indian Army said on Monday a day after the dialogue. It said the Indian side made “constructive suggestions” for resolving the remaining areas but the Chinese side was not agreeable to them and also could not provide any forward-looking proposals. “The meeting thus did not result in resolution of the remaining areas,” the Army said in a statement. The talks took place on the Chushul-Moldo border point on the Chinese side of the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in eastern Ladakh on Sunday and they lasted for around eight-and-half hours. The Army said the Indian side pointed out that the situation along the LAC had been caused by “unilateral attempts” by the Chinese si...

The parties charged Bhagwat with "insulting" the armed forces after RSS leader's remark on Army The Opposition on Monday latched on to RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat 's reported remarks on the Army, demanding that he apologise to the nation and Prime Minister Narendra Modi clarify if he was in favour of a "private militia" guarding India's borders. The parties charged Bhagwat with "insulting" the armed forces and the country by claiming that in the eventuality of a battle to be fought, the RSS could mobilise itself in three days while the Indian Army would take six to seven months to do so. Leading the charge, Congress president Rahul Gandhi tweeted that Bhagwat's remark insulted the Indian tricolour. "The RSS Chief's speech is an insult to every Indian, because it disrespects those who have died for our nation. It is an insult to our flag because it insults every soldier who ever saluted it. Shame on you Mr Bhagwa...