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ONGC barge accident: Indian Navy captain recalls appalling conditions at sea, 120 kmph winds, nine-metre-high waves
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ISSUE DATE: May 17, 2021
UPDATED: May 7, 2021 23:36 IST
Staff at the Ghazipur crematorium in Delhi cart in fresh logs as
funeral pyres burn all around them (Rajk Raj/ Getty Images)
The second wave of Covid-19 is still cresting but by now we have all been touched by its terrors, and all too many of us by its sorrows and the dismal realisation that we are in the midst of a recurring nightmare, a tragedy foretold. Here, we expose the sorry tale of neglect, apathy and failure of our political leadership. The institutional collapse and bureaucratic cowardice that facilitated super-spreader religious festivals and the political carnival of an eight-phase election campaign even as the second wave of a pandemic was breaking. The narcissism that enabled our leadership to ignore the warnings of expert groups. Their inability to form bipartisan alliances between the Centre and the states in the middle of a national calamity. Now that some of the loudest voices in the land have gone quiet, t
ISSUE DATE: May 10, 2021
UPDATED: May 1, 2021 18:50 IST
India Today magazine issue May 10, 2021
The darkest tale of a victory declared prematurely comes from Greek mythology. At the end of the Trojan War, the attacking Greeks abandoned a 10-year-long siege of the city-state of Troy and sailed away, leaving behind a giant wooden horse. The relieved defenders, falsely believing they had won, carted the horse inside the city. As the Trojans slept, Greek warriors slipped out of their hideout within the horse and opened the city’s gates to its destruction.
It could well be a metaphor for where India was at the beginning of this year. As the first wave receded in February, we believed Covid had left for good and resumed our daily life, shedding masks and the social distancing protocols doctors and scientists had mandated, oblivious to the prospect of a second wave darkening the horizon. In January this year, the government all but declared victory. Our vaccination programme went awry
UPDATED: April 22, 2021 23:22 IST
An advanced version of the DRDO-developed Pinaka rocket was successfully flight tested from Integrated Test Range, Chandipur off the coast of Odisha, Nov. 4, 2020 (PTI)
On April 19, China’s military newspaper,
People’s Daily, carried a report confirming the deployment of what it said was a regiment of an advanced long-range rocket launcher’ to the Himalayas. The report came two months after India and China disengaged troops after a 10-month long standoff near the Pangong Lake in the Kailash Range. To understand the significance of this deployment, India Today Executive Editor
Sandeep Unnithan spoke with
Lt Gen. P. Ravi Shankar, former director-general, artillery, who spoke of the need for India to fill the gaps in its rocket artillery and train at high altitudes.
Book Review | Navy s 1971 covert exploits make for breathless readin
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