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Then there were trains from Pakistan: And those who lived to tell the horror

Vivek Shukla - August 14, 2022

(This is the second and final part of a series on the horrific Partition of India. In the first piece, the author delved on...

University of Oxford names a building after a Sanskrit scholar

Newsbred Staff - January 18, 2022

The Balliol College of the University of Oxford in England has named a building after Dr Lakshman Sarup, who was the first student at...

Another Hindu temple vandalized in Pakistan on Janmashthmi

Newsbred Staff - August 31, 2021

Islamic fundamentalists in Pakistan vandalised a Hindu temple in the middle of a celebration of Janmashtami in Sindh province on Monday. The Islamist mob...

India calls arrest of Azhar, Lakhvi a Pakistani farce

Newsbred Staff - January 9, 2021

The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) slammed Pakistan’s routine farcical move to put terrorists Maulana Masood Azhar and Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi just ahead of the...

The Pakistani lady, with military connections, who is Amarinder Singh’s muse

Sant Kumar Sharma - December 22, 2020

Over 16 years ago, in October 2004, a delegation of Pakistan media led by Imtiaz Alam, secretary general of Pakistan chapter of South Asia...

As Pakistan dithers on terrorism, FATF appears no better than paper tigers

Sant Kumar Sharma - September 15, 2020

The difference between mere lip service and honest intentions is perhaps not very difficult to gauge. Faced with an unpleasant situation, lip service is...

September 1: A launch when India could’ve lost J & K but for this man

Sant Kumar Sharma - September 1, 2020

Changing horses midstream is considered a very silly and stupid idea, to be avoided always. Yet, this was precisely what Pakistani dictator Ayub Khan...

Haji Pir Pass: How India won it in War’”and gave it away on table!

Sant Kumar Sharma - August 29, 2020

In October 1965, people from Poonch started travelling to Uri, Baramulla and to Srinagar via Haji Pir Pass on a regular basis after troops...

It’s unlikely the buried last Sikh king would be exhumed

Ashish Shukla - December 5, 2019

It is no small matter that the last king of the powerful Sikh empire of the 19th century is buried in a small nondescript...

India’s border woes: A legacy of Colonialism, geography and Pakistan

Ashish Shukla - November 18, 2019

India is shouting from the rooftop it has made no transgressions across its eastern borders in neighbouring Nepal but it has made no difference...

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