Nitin A. Gokhale

We Won’t Do Anything That Will Harm India’s Interests: Gotabaya

by Nitin A Gokhale

06 Jan/20

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COLOMBO: Seeking to allay India’s apprehensions ahead of his first scheduled trip abroad as Sri Lankan President—to New Delhi this week—Gotabaya Rajapaksa has a reassurance to offer. We will work with India as a friendly country and won’t do anything that will harm India’s interests, he told Nitin A. Gokhale,…

No IPS Officer should head RAW, Chief should be PM’s Choice – Indra Gandhi told KN Rao

by Nitin A Gokhale

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25 Dec/19

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Having RN Kao set up ARC [Aviation Research Centre] and headed it until 1966, R.N. Kao [RNK] was also the head of external intelligence in the IB [Intelligence Bureau]. [Lal Bahadur] Shastri had died in January 1966 and Indira Gandhi, Nehru’s daughter, became India’s third Prime Minister. At that point…

Explained: What Chief of Defence Staff Means to India

by Nitin A Gokhale

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24 Dec/19

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In a path breaking move towards the integration of the all three defence services, the Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) on 24th December approved the creation of a Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), who will be the single-point military adviser to the government. “The government has approved the creation of…

Gen Bipin Rawat, Hot Favourite for CDS

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20 Dec/19

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With the announcement of the nominee for the post of Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), possibly just round the bend, some information on the CDS needs to percolate to the environment. I have been trying to figure out since the 15th August announcement by the Prime Minister, about what would…

Hundreds of thousands a still more glorious nights around art table

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28 Nov/19

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Bearable only through love hydrogen atoms bits of moving fluff culture shores of the cosmic ocean paroxysm of global death rich in heavy atoms with pretty stories for which there’s little good evidence something incredible is waiting to be known not a sunrise but a galaxyrise shores of the cosmic…

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We Won’t Do Anything That Will Harm India’s Interests: Gotabaya

No IPS Officer should head RAW, Chief should be PM’s Choice – Indra Gandhi told KN Rao

Explained: What Chief of Defence Staff Means to India

Gen Bipin Rawat, Hot Favourite for CDS

Hundreds of thousands a still more glorious nights around art table