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The north-east is back in the news. Once again for all the wrong reasons. The death of 18 soldiers in what is easily the single biggest ambush on the Indian Army in the north-east in the past decade, has brought attention right back on the insurgent groups in the region.…

India’s Mountain Strike Corps, announced with much fanfare in late 2013 to augment the army’s strength along the border with China, is in trouble, thanks to a ‘sanction’ that was not really a sanction under the UPA II government. According to sequence of events pieced together by this writer after…

Had it not been for the National Technical Research Organisation (NTRO)’s electronic and cyberspace surveillance capability, the Indian Coast Guard would have found it difficult to prevent a 26/11-type of intrusion from the Arabian Sea on New Year’s Eve. (Pakistani Boat Blows Itself Up at Sea Off Porbandar) Sketchy but…

The multiple attacks by tribal guerrrillas in Assam should  have been anticipated and prevented by the authorities since the group – the National Democratic Front of Bodoland  – was likely to see revenge after 40 of its well-trained members were killed in a major offensive  by security forces in the…