Ashok K Mehta
The writer is an Indian Army Gorkha regiment officer and has known Nepal since 1959
Wed, Mar 16, 2022
Ashok K Mehta writes: Several alumni of the Rashtriya Indian Military College, Dehradun, have distinguished themselves in service of the nation.
Thu, Dec 09, 2021
🔴 Rawat started his career as an officer in the Gorkhas and rose to command 5/11 Gorkha Rifles, the battalion his father Lt Gen L S Rawat also commanded.
Sat, Sep 18, 2021
He said: ‘If we die in resistance, it is a win for us. History will write about us as people who stood for their country till the end of time’
Fri, Mar 26, 2021
Through protracted negotiations with the emissaries of Zulfiqar Bhutto and Mujibur Rehman, German chancellor Willy Brandt and his foreign minister Walter Scheel succeeded in convincing the latter that he should forego the trials of Pakistani POWs, citing the German experience after the war and the Nuremberg trials.
Thu, Oct 01, 2020
It was Jaswant who paved the path for the India-US strategic partnership as natural allies though the going was not easy after the nuclear tests.
Thu, Aug 20, 2020
The salvo of “befitting replies” will not impress the Chinese as our ambassador in Beijing pleads with Chinese officials for the restoration of the April 19 status quo ante.
Sat, Nov 09, 2019
Gorkhas have a flair for risk taking as many are not familiar with danger. Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw once famously said: “Anyone who says he does not know fear is either lying or a Gorkha”.
Sat, Nov 02, 2019
Xi’s dream — to be the sole leader of the Asian century — is attainable: By keeping India anchored to the region using Pakistan, even as Beijing, assisted by Kathmandu, blocks New Delhi’s traditional strategic space in Nepal. But, not all is lost for India.
Fri, Jun 09, 2017
Only Prime Minister Narendra Modi can throw aside all the tricks and tirades of history and diplomacy and reach for peace with Pakistan
Tue, Jan 23, 2001
The deadline for the Ramzan ceasefire in J&K is just three days away. The Army Chief says he's not averse to its extension though Faro...
Fri, Oct 09, 1998
All the famous captains of Kipling's Great Game were baptised on their long march from Kabul to Kandahar. This expeditionary force, calle...
Tue, Sep 08, 1998
Nearly four months after Pok-haran II, a minimum nuclear doctrine is emerging. Having named its nuclear threats, India's nuclear strategy...
Fri, May 01, 1998
The army is unable to utilise the paltry amount the government allots for new weapons. This year it has had to surrender Rs 103 crore out of...
Sat, Apr 04, 1998
During a television debate in the run up to the elections, while other parties were ambivalent about exercising their nuclear option, Brajes...
Tue, Mar 24, 1998
Old soldiers never die, they simply fade away. The most vivid enactment of wilting was that of Field Marshal Claude Auchinleck of Morocco, i...
Tue, Mar 03, 1998
The ten-month long stand-off over the promotion to Lieutenant General of the 1963 batch between the Ministry of Defence (MoD) and the Army H...
Fri, Feb 13, 1998
Wherever you go in Nepal, you can see children playing the country's favourite game, football, bouncing an improvised cotton-wool ball on th...
Fri, Jan 23, 1998
The appointment of the three-star Adjutant General (AG) is crucial in a peacetime army. In the British and American armies he is a four-star...
Mon, Nov 03, 1997
A powerful truck bomb reminiscent of the bombing of the Central Bank of Ceylon 20 months ago struck the world Trade Centre and adjoining lu...
Thu, Aug 14, 1997
On the golden jubilee of our independence, it is heartening to notice the awakening in the national press about the special importance of t...
Wed, Aug 06, 1997
After the selective announcement of the so-called improved Fifth Pay Commission (FPC) award and the defence minister's triumphant press bri...
Thu, Jul 17, 1997
The LTTE's surprise demolition work in July last year on the isolated Sri Lankan Army's (SLA) coastal brigade-size garrison of Mullaittivu ...
Thu, Jun 19, 1997
In a striking replay of the Great Game, the white flag of the radical Islamic Pashtun-majority Taliban fluttered over Afghanistan's norther...
Thu, May 08, 1997
Barring the spectacular assaults by the LTTE on the Sri Lankan Army (SLA) garrison at Paranthan early this year and the two smaller attacks...