What are India and Pakistan’s military capabilities? The India-Pakistan ceasefire has increased hope that the two nuclear-armed countries can step back from the brink of full-scale war. Such a conflict…
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India-Pakistan Live: Pakistan launches military operation against India
Could India, Pakistan use nuclear weapons? Here’s what their doctrines say As India and Pakistan escalate shelling and missile attacks, an all-out war between the two sides would be the…
India-Pakistan Live: Pakistan says no de-escalation with India amid attacks
What is the Line of Control? With the fast-moving developments on the ground, let’s take a step back and look at what we mean by the Line of Control (LoC),…
India-Pakistan live: Pakistan again threatens retaliation against India
India intercepted drones, attacks in Jammu, according to media reports There’s currently a complete electricity blackout in the Hindu-majority region of Jammu and Kashmir, says journalist Umar Meraj. “The Indian…
India-Pakistan live: India strikes Pakistan, Pakistan-administered Kashmir
Flights temporarily suspended at three airports in Pakistan: Report The Reuters news agency reports that flight operations at Pakistan’s Karachi, Lahore, and Sialkot airports have been temporarily suspended. According to…
India: Elon Musk’s Grok is kicking up a storm
It all started with one question. A query last week from an X (formerly Twitter) account called Toka was enough to propel Elon Musk’s built in-chatbot called Grok 3 into…
China: Ex-researcher sentenced to death for spying
A former engineer at a Chinese research institute has been sentenced to death for selling classified material to foreign spy agencies, Chinese authorities said. After he resigned from the institute,…
India: Three men sentenced to death in India for 1981 caste massacre
A court in India has sentenced three men to death for the 1981 murder of 24 people from the Dalit (formerly untouchable) community. The men were part of a gang…
India: Curfew in Nagpur city after violence over Mughal emperor Aurangzeb’s tomb
A curfew has been imposed in parts of a city in India’s western state of Maharashtra after Hindu groups demanded the removal of the tomb of Aurangzeb, a 17th-Century Mughal…
India: Language battle heats up
A war of words has erupted between the chief minister of a southern Indian state and the federal government over an education policy that, among other things, also deals with…