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Delhi “We Don’T See Why There Is to Solve the Strike”
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Science & Technology Developments
MARCH 2021 CONTENTS Cover Story - Draft national policy on migrant workers 1. ECONOMY 1.1 ESIC, other social security safety nets to cover gig economy workers 1.2 Govt. agrees to maintain States’ share in the divisible pool of taxes 1.3 ‘India’s weak fiscal position to remain a key credit challenge’ 1.4 For affluent, EPF is not nest egg but goose that lays golden eggs 1.5 Retail investors to be able to buy G-Secs directly: RBI 1.6 Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana (PMFBY) 1.7 In PM’s words for pvt sector, India Inc sees booster shot 1.8 ‘Bad bank’ idea: Govt guarantee for ARC paper likely 1.9 RBI sets up panel for strengthening UCBs 1.10 PM reaffirms plan to include natural gas under GST regime 1.11 Cabinet approves PLI plan for telecom 1.12 Gadkari urges auto firms to raise localisation to 100% 1.13 What rise in bond yield means for investors and govt 1.14 RBI working paper defends 4% inflation target for India 2. INDIA AND WORLD 2.1 No Indian role in developing ECT in Colombo 2.2 For New Delhi, the tightrope on Myanmar is back 2.3 ECT fiasco: Indian envoy meets Gotabaya, Mahinda 2.4 ‘India ready to supply weapon systems to Indian Ocean nations’ 2.5 Ukraine looking at defence purchases from India 2.6 Israel wants India by its side against ICC ruling, Delhi silent 2.7 India is an important partner in the Indo-Pacific region, says U.S. -
Tribes of the Hindoo Koosh
JOHN BIDDULPH ; 9 , ,:\ 1v-A.: * \y.j,,- tV f. , 7 i!., c I I ,+ - ,p ,, , , ,,., I -9 TRIBES OF THE HIND00 KOOSH PREFACE TO THE 1971 EDITION KARL GRATZI, AKAI)EMIS(:HE I)HU(;K- 11. V k;RI,A(;SANS'1'.41.'1' (;KA% - AUSTRIA 1971 Urn ein Vorwort vermehrter Nachdruck der 1880 irn Office of the Superintendant of Government Printing in Calcutta erschienenen Ausgabe Photomechanischer Nachdruck @ Akademische Druck- u. Verlagsanstalt, Graz ,971 Printed in Austria 375/70 PREFACE TO THE 1971 EDITION by K. Gratzl The author COLONEL JOHN BIDDULPH was born on 25 ~uly1840, son of Robert Biddulph, Banker, and Elizabeth his wife of Eaton Place, London. He was educated at Westminster School from July 1855 to July 1856 and by a private tutor in Bonn, Germany, from September 1856 to June 1871.' BIDDULPH joined the 5th Bengal Cavalry in January 1858, served through the Oudh Cam- paign of 1858 and received the Mutiny Medal. From 1872 to 1877 he served as Aide-de-camp to the Viceroy of India, LORD NORTHBROOK. He was on special duty as Member of the Mis- sion to Yiirkand, the Pamir and Wakhan- in 1873-74 and again on special duty at Gilgit from 1877 to 1881. In 1882 BIDDULPH was acting Agent to the Governor General and between that year and 1895, when he retired from the Political Department, he was Political Agent or Resident in areas including Quetta, Baroda and Gwaliyiir and on deputation in 1885-86 as a Bound- ary Settlement Offi~er.~COLONEL JOHN BIDDULPH died at Grey Court, Ham Common, on the last day of December, 1921, in his 82nd year. -
Chinese and Pakistani Armed Forces: Striking Similarities with Common Foe
scholar warrior Chinese and Pakistani Armed Forces: Striking Similarities With Common Foe DINESH MATHUR Pakistani Legacy and Brand of Democracy Pakistan, from the time Jinnah to that of Nawaz Sharif, has grown progressively weaker, more authoritarian, and increasingly theocratic. The Pakistan Army, is a force in itself, usurping political power, vast commercial and industrial interests and massive rural and urban properties. The veracity of the age- old saying, “All countries have Armies, but here, an Army has a country,” is undoubtedly true in the case of Pakistan. The intelligentsia steadfastly believes that the nexus between politicians and the bureaucracy is corrupt, incompetent and cannot be trusted to hold authority. There has never been much doubt about who actually calls the shots, especially in the formulation of foreign, nuclear and defence policies. Guided democracy or oligarchy in Pakistan, is a loose term for the informal political system that binds together the senior ranks of the military, the civil service, key members of the judiciary, and other social elite. Political institutions have ceased to exist and crudely favour the elite in pursuing quick financial gains while the poor continue to languish. Civilian governments, like birds of passage, are nominal heads and serve at the pleasure of the Army Chief. In its tumultuous 67 years’ history, only one civilian government completed its term recently, a good pointer to the state of democracy. 24 ä SPRING 2015 ä scholar warrior scholar warrior Pakistan’s Core Principles Since Independence, Conceding that conventional / nuclear war is not the best option against India, the Pakistan Army has enunciated Pakistan has five core principles for Pakistan’s survival: become weaker, • Growing Indian power disturbs the equilibrium of authoritarian South Asia and it must be countered in all fields. -
From a Standoff to a Stalemate Introduction Changing Lines
From a standoff to a stalemate 29 May, 2020 | GS-II | International Relations | GS PAPER 2 | INTERNATIONAL ISSUES | INDIA AND ITS NEIGHBORHOOD | INDIA AND CHINA From a standoff to a stalemate By , Major General M. Vinaya Chandran (retd), who has 36 years of service in the Indian Army, is a PhD Research Scholar at the University of Madras Introduction India’s construction of a road to Daulat Beg Oldie (DBO) in the Galwan Valley has been suggested as one reason for the recent standoff between India and China along the Line of Actual Control (LAC). China has said India was “attempting to unilaterally change the status quo” on the LAC. The Durbuk-Shyok-DBO road was under construction for more than 15 years. As per protocol, local commanders kept informing each other about the construction activities. China never raised any objection against it. In fact, construction work on China’s side of the LAC has been of a much higher scale. Changing lines # China has a history of changing lines. In the late 1950s, the lines kept moving westward, and ultimately led to the 1962 war. # More recently, in 2002, when maps were exchanged during the Expert Group meetings, China showed a claim line in the western sector which was different from what existed on the ground since 1962. # Again in 2007, China’s perception of the border in Depsang in the Ladakh sector, in Sikkim, and in many other places appeared to change. # In 2017, China wanted to unilaterally change the boundary and the trijunction with Bhutan and India, which sparked the Doklam standoff. -
Disengagement Agreement in Eastern Ladakh
Disengagement Agreement in Eastern Ladakh Why in news? Chinese and Indian troops on the southern and northern shores of Pangong Tso began “synchronized and organized disengagement.” What is the significance? The move comes as the first major breakthrough in talks to resolve the nine- month military standoff along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in Ladakh. The disengagement began in line with the consensus reached at the 9th round of China-India Corps Commander Level Meeting. The agreement is a promising start towards restoring peace in the border areas. What is the new disengagement plan in eastern Ladakh? Troops from both sides have started disengaging from the Pangong Tso area in eastern Ladakh. As of now, the disengagement process seems restricted to the north and south banks of Pangong Tso. The process has started with the pulling back of certain columns of tanks from the south bank region by both sides. At the moment, there is no pullback of troops from the friction points and the heights they are positioned on. That will happen in a phased and verified manner. The ground commanders have started meeting, to figure out the nitty-gritty of the process. What does this disengagement process entail? Both sides will remove the forward deployment in a phased, coordinated and verified manner. China will pull its troops on the north bank towards the east of Finger 8. Similarly, India will also position its forces at its permanent base at the Dhan Singh Thapa post near Finger 3. Similar action will be taken by both the parties in the south bank area as well. -
Last Post Indian War Memorials Around the World
Last Post Indian War Memorials Around the World Introduction • 1 Rana Chhina Last Post Indian War Memorials Around the World i Capt Suresh Sharma Last Post Indian War Memorials Around the World Rana T.S. Chhina Centre for Armed Forces Historical Research United Service Institution of India 2014 First published 2014 © United Service Institution of India All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without prior permission of the author / publisher. ISBN 978-81-902097-9-3 Centre for Armed Forces Historical Research United Service Institution of India Rao Tula Ram Marg, Post Bag No. 8, Vasant Vihar PO New Delhi 110057, India. email: [email protected] www.usiofindia.org Printed by Aegean Offset Printers, Gr. Noida, India. Capt Suresh Sharma Contents Foreword ix Introduction 1 Section I The Two World Wars 15 Memorials around the World 47 Section II The Wars since Independence 129 Memorials in India 161 Acknowledgements 206 Appendix A Indian War Dead WW-I & II: Details by CWGC Memorial 208 Appendix B CWGC Commitment Summary by Country 230 The Gift of India Is there ought you need that my hands hold? Rich gifts of raiment or grain or gold? Lo! I have flung to the East and the West Priceless treasures torn from my breast, and yielded the sons of my stricken womb to the drum-beats of duty, the sabers of doom. Gathered like pearls in their alien graves Silent they sleep by the Persian waves, scattered like shells on Egyptian sands, they lie with pale brows and brave, broken hands, strewn like blossoms mowed down by chance on the blood-brown meadows of Flanders and France. -
June 2020 (15Th June - 4Th July)
BigNEWS (Compilation of Analytical Discussion of Daily News Articles on YouTube) for the Month of June 2020 (15th June - 4th July) Visit our website www.sleepyclasses.com or our YouTube channel for entire GS Course FREE of cost Also Available: Prelims Crash Course || Prelims Test Series T.me/SleepyClasses Table of Contents 1. NIRF Rankings 2020 ................................................................................................1 2. Galwan Valley: Chinese Brinkmanship and the Great Game ...................4 3. Arctic is Burning .........................................................................................................7 4. US Visas Cancelled ....................................................................................................12 5. Yulin Dog Meat Festival in China in Times of Corona .................................14 6. The makers of India: 100 years of P V Narsimha Rao .................................17 7. China is Coming ..........................................................................................................19 8. Chinese Takeover of Indian App Ecosystem ...................................................23 9. China ...............................................................................................................................25 10.Attack on Pakistan Stock Exchange in Karachi by Balochistan Liberation Army ...............................................................................................................................27 11.All about G4 Ea H1n1: A New -
2000 Ladakh and Zanskar-The Land of Passes
1 LADAKH AND ZANSKAR -THE LAND OF PASSES The great mountains are quick to kill or maim when mistakes are made. Surely, a safe descent is as much a part of the climb as “getting to the top”. Dead men are successful only when they have given their lives for others. Kenneth Mason, Abode of Snow (p. 289) The remote and isolated region of Ladakh lies in the state of Jammu and Kashmir, marking the western limit of the spread of Tibetan culture. Before it became a part of India in the 1834, when the rulers of Jammu brought it under their control, Ladakh was an independent kingdom closely linked with Tibet, its strong Buddhist culture and its various gompas (monasteries) such as Lamayuru, Alchi and Thiksey a living testimony to this fact. One of the most prominent monuments is the towering palace in Leh, built by the Ladakhi ruler, Singe Namgyal (c. 1570 to 1642). Ladakh’s inhospitable terrain has seen enough traders, missionaries and invading armies to justify the Ladakhi saying: “The land is so barren and the passes are so high that only the best of friends or worst of enemies would want to visit us.” The elevation of Ladakh gives it an extreme climate; burning heat by day and freezing cold at night. Due to the rarefied atmosphere, the sun’s rays heat the ground quickly, the dry air allowing for quick cooling, leading to sub-zero temperatures at night. Lying in the rain- shadow of the Great Himalaya, this arid, bare region receives scanty rainfall, and its primary source of water is the winter snowfall. -
International Relations | Topic: Effect of Policies and Politics of Developed & Developing Countries on India's Interests
Page 1 Battle for Hong Kong2 A phantom called the Line of Actual Control3 G7 outdated, says Trump, invites India, Russia and others to September meeting6 India, China bring in heavy equipment and weaponry to their rear bases near eastern Ladakh8 India, China and fortifying the Africa outreach10 Shoring up Indo-Pacific13 It's time to play hardball with China over its misadventures15 Wolf Warrior Diplomacy17 Move over G7, it's time for a new and improved G1119 Seven to eleven: The Hindu Editorial on India and G-721 The Delhi-DC-Beijing triangle - editorials - Hindustan Times23 India-Australia meet strengthens ties25 The de-escalation road map for India and China27 A chill in U.S.-China relations29 Skyrocketing tensions: The Hindu Editorial on U.S.-China ties32 Eastern Ladakh standoff: Indian and Chinese armies hold Lt-General-level talks34 In Persian Gulf littoral, cooperative security is key36 Raja Mandala: It’s not about America40 Resume dialogue with Nepal now42 Pincer provocations?46 ‘China disregarding historic commitments on Naku La’49 An unravelling of the Group of Seven51 As Nepal paints itself into a corner on Kalapani issue, India must tread carefully55 A case for quiet diplomacy58 Back from the brink: The Hindu Editorial on India-China border row61 Black lives and the experiment called America63 India-China: the line of actual contest67 India slams Nepal for adopting a new map70 Forgotten in the fog of war, the last firing on the India-China border72 No longer special: The Hindu Editorial on India-Nepal ties74 ‘There will be no -
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Excelsiordaily Vol No. 51 No. 260 JAMMU, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2015 REGD.NO.JK-71/15-17 16+4 (Magazine) = 20 Pages ` 4.00 RNI No. 28547/1992 HM to visit forward posts, fly over others Minor injured in firing succumbs Rajnath to hold high level security Hizb militant found dead Adil Lateef recharge his phone from a near- Witnesses said when the by shop. Though the duo was body of Burhan reached his review along China LAC for 3 days SRINAGAR, Sept 19: A rushed to hospital but Bashir ancestral village, a pale of Sanjeev Pargal Commanders, civil and police over Daulat Beg Oldie (DBO), three year old kid who was succumbed to injuries enroute gloom descended in entire administration in Leh and the Track Junction, Murgo and injured yesterday during an while Burhan was shifted to area and people staged mas- JAMMU, Sept 19: Union troops during his visit to for- Burtse BOPs to have aerial view attack on his father, a former Sher-e-Kashmir Institute of sive protests. The women were Home Minister Rajnath Singh ward posts along the China bor- of LAC position. These BOPs Jamiat-ul-Mujahideen mili- Medical Sciences (SKIMS) seen wailing and beating their will hold high level review of der. He will assess requirements either don't have direct road tant, by gunmen in north Soura where he lost his life chests. The witnesses said, security scenario along with of the ITBP jawans, who have access from Leh or were located Kashmir’s Sopore area of today early morning. hundreds of people attended top Commanders of Indo- been manning LAC along with in very far off areas. -
Marches Et Frontières Dans Les Himalayas
C h a P i t r e 1 les HimalaYas et la barrière Une union très imparfaite 1. LES HIMALAYAS oU la PÉriPHÉrie COMME QUESTION ceNTRALE entre la plaine indo-gangétique et les basses terres du Takla Makan-Gobi sont concentrées 96 % des terres de plus de 3 000 m de l’asie1, qui constituent le plus formidable ensemble de hautes terres du globe (d’une altitude moyenne de 4 500 m), circonscrit au nord et au sud par des chaînes culminant à 7 000 m, voire 8 000 m . Étroitement liées entre elles au sortir du nœud des Pamirs (500 km à peine séparent Karghalik de Rawalpindi), les chaînes divergent et s’individualisent rapidement pour composer de longs aligne- ments globalement orientés ouest-est (la largeur de l’ensemble est alors de 1 . asie insulaire non comprise . Le chiffre associe au Tibet les massifs périphériques qui forment avec lui un ensemble continu . Voir André Cailleux, « Tibet, Andes : catastrophes, plaques et rétroaction », Annales de géographie, no 488, juillet-août 1979, p . 419-431 . 20 Marches et frontières dans les Himalayas près de 1 500 km) avant de se réunir au rebroussement birman et d’épouser une direction méridienne (quelque 1 300 km de largeur) . Dans ce contexte régional l’Himalaya apparaît comme « un monde à part, indien par sa base, par sa végétation, par son climat, par les fleuves qui s’y épanchent, tibétain par l’énorme protubérance terrestre dont il forme le rebord méridional2 » . il est « la figure géographique qui domine l’inde3 » et, dans la géographie régionale classique, l’une des trois macro-régions de l’inde, avec les Plaines septentrionales (Northern plains) et la péninsule du Deccan .