THE GOOD WORD Nov 15, 2021 - Week 48
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27 Maoists killed in encounter with elite C- 60
commando force in Gadchiroli, Maharashtra
Bharat First
Nov 10, New Delhi, the
NSA’s of India, Iran,
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyztan,
Russia, Tajikistan,
Turkmenistan and
Uzbekistan met and issued
a ‘Delhi Declaration’
statement on Afghanistan.
It called for preventing the
country being used for
terrorism, radicalization,
separatism and drug
trafficking. It demanded an
inclusive government, the
UN’s ongoing presence and
protection of women and
minority rights.
Russia later issued its own
statement that differed
with the main declaration
in minor detail. The meet
timed just before the
Pakistan sponsored US-
Russia-China discussion on
Afghanistan is seen to aid
Russia in raising their
concern that the Russian
backed Taliban faction is
not left out of government,
a demand sidelined by
Pakistan and China. Other
CAS countries benefit as
immigration and
insurgency are real
concerns. At – HT, MEA
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deliveries are expected
to be complete by the
end of this year.
Thereafter the Air Force
would start focusing on
the eastern borders
along with providing
resources for training of
personnel within the
country. Indian Air Force
officers and personnel
have trained in Russia on
the system.
Tough bargaining by
India managed to bring
down the S-400 price by
almost a billion dollars
sources said.
China also has an earlier
version of the S-400
stationed along the LAC.
Image MSN At: FirstPost , Swarajya
Nov 14, the Centre has
issued ordinances to
extend the tenure of
Central Bureau of
Investigation (CBI) and
Enforcement Directorate
(ED) chiefs to up to five
years. Currently, the
tenure of directors of
both central
investigation agencies is
of two years.
The CVC (Amendment)
Ordinance for the ED
chief’s tenure and the
Delhi Special Police
Establishment
(Amendment) Act
Ordinance for CBI
director’s, state that
after providing reasons
in writing, the
government may extend
their tenures by one year
at a time, for up to three
years. The total tenure
of the head cannot
exceed five years.
President Ram Nath
Kovind has approved the
ordinances as Parliament
is not in session. The
TMC and Congress have
objected to the
ordinance empowering
the two agencies.
At: OdishaTV
both the western and
northern borders with
Pakistan and China.
In October 2018, India
had signed a deal worth
₹35,000 crore with
Russia to buy five units
of the S-400, Russia's
most advanced long-
range surface-to-air
missile defence system.
The system is equipped
with four different
missiles which can
engage enemy aircraft,
ballistic missiles and
AWACS planes at a full
400 km long range, a 250
km range, a medium
range of 120 km and a
short-range 40 km.
The first squadron
Nanak Jayanti, Nov 19 – Image – TelguOne , Rani Lakshmi Bai Jayanti, Nov 19 – Image – RealBharat
5 troopers killed in
Pakistan despite
TTP ceasefire
Modi to inaugurate Uttar Pradesh’s
341 km long Purvanchal expressway Ordinance extends
CBI and ED chief
terms to 5 years
Nov 13, At least five
security personnel,
three soldiers and two
policemen were killed in
three separate attacks
in Pakistan’s restive
western region
bordering Afghanistan.
Two soldiers were killed
during a shootout with
militants, while a third
soldier was killed while
trying to clear an
improvised explosive
device. The two
policemen were killed
by an improvised
explosive device
planted in a motorcycle
targeting a police
patrol.
A local Tehreek-e-
Taliban spokesman
denied responsibility for
the attacks saying the
militant group will abide
by the ceasefire. The
TTP have fought for
years to overthrow the
government in
Islamabad and rule with
their own brand of
Islamic Sharia law.
More at: HindustanTimes
Nov 13, ABBA's first
studio album in nearly
40 years has made it to
the top of the UK
charts, becoming the
fastest seller of the year
so far, the Official
Charts Company said.
“Voyage” by the
Swedish quartet of
Agnetha, Bjorn, Benny
and Anni-Frid racked up
204,000 chart sales in
the seven days since it
was launched last
Friday.
ABBA, propelled to
global fame after their
1974 Eurovision Song
Contest win with
‘Waterloo’. They split in
1982, a year after their
last album, ‘The
Visitors’. ‘Voyage’ is
their 10th number one
album in the UK. ‘We
are absolutely over the
moon to have an album
at the top of the charts
again.’ the group said.
Image: TheGuardian, At: TheLocal
Abba reunion
album tops UK
charts 40 years on
Nov 14, Russia has
started supplying the S-
400 Triumf air defence
missile system to India,
director of Russian
Federal Service for
Military-Technical
Cooperation (FSMTC)
Dmitry Shugaev said at
Dubai air show. FSMTC
is the Russian
government's main
defence export control
organisation.
Sources in India said the
parts of the air defence
system have started
reaching India and that
it would be first
deployed at a location
close to the Western
border from where it
can tackle threats from
Nov 8, India’s leading and
most popular actress
Kangana Ranaut was
conferred a Padma Shri
Award, India’s fourth-
highest civilian honour of
the country. This
milestone comes shortly
after she won the National
Film Award for the best
actress for a fourth time.
Ranaut shared a video
message afterwards
expressed gratitude to her
Guru and parents. She is
being lauded for her
trailblazing performances
in Manikarnika-The Queen
of Jhansi and Panga. She
said that she has garnered
many accolades for her
acting, but the latest
award recognises her role
as a good citizen.
President Kovind
presented her the Padma
Shri in the Rashtrapati
Bhavan in New Delhi.
At: Republic image – MidDay
Nov 16, The Indian Air
Force (IAF) has placed
an order for French
HAMMER missiles to be
fitted into LCA Tejas jets
boosting the firepower
of the indigenous
fighter jets. The
medium range air-to-
surface HAMMER
(Highly Agile Modular
Munition Extended
Range) missile is
capable of taking out
bunkers or hardened
shelters in different
terrains including
mountainous ones
similar to Eastern
Ladakh . This acquisition
has been made under
the emergency
procurement power
granted by the Modi
government. The IAF
had first acquired
HAMMER missiles for
the French Rafale jets.
Fitted onto LCA Tejas it
will further enhance the
jets superiority over the
JF-17 fighter jet.
At: Lagaatar24, At: IndiaTVNews
India orders
French ‘Hammer’
for Tejas
started. Helicopters
were called in from the
police headquarter to
help after the incident.
The 26 Maoist bodies
recovered from the
forest included Milind
Teltumbde, a top rung
leader of the banned
left-wing terror outfit
CPI (Maoist) on whom
the police had
announced a bounty of
₹ 50 lacs. He was
accused in the Bhima
Koregaon case for
imparting weapon
training in terror
camps. Other wanted
Naxals eliminated
included Podyam who
had a ₹ 20 lacs reward
on his head, Gota with
₹ 16 lacs, Jaiman and
Kovachi with ₹ 8 lacs
each and Jade with a
₹ 6 lacs reward. Less
than 48 hours later,
another naxal Nureti,
with a bounty of Rs 10
lac on his head was
killed in Bastar, after
fleeing the Gadchiroli
encounter site. A
search operation is
underway. Six AK- 47
rifles, one pistol, nine
12-bore guns, nine
self-loading rifles,
three .303 rifles and
one INSAS rifle were
recovered.
The state announced
an award for the
commandos.
Image: BeBaak, At: OpIndia 1-2,
IndiaToday, TimesOfIndia
Nov 13, in a major
success for anti-Naxal
operations, early
morning 5 am, a 10 hour
gun-battle encounter
started between
Maharshtra’s elite C-60
anti-Naxal commando
force and Maosists in
the forest of Mardintola,
Gyarahbatti, Gadchiroli
around 250 km from
Nagpur. 26 Maoists
were killed while 3
jawans sustained injury.
It was learnt that a large
number of Naxalites had
entered villages in the
area. There were 10 C-
60 parties patrolling the
area. Insurgents fired on
the commandos and a
major gun battle
Russia begins delivery of S- 400 air-defence-missile
system to India amidst stand-off with China
Kangana Ranaut
conferred a Padma
Shri award
Nov 16, prime minister
(PM) Narendra Modi is
to inaugurate the 6
lane, 341 km long
Purvanchal expressway
today. Built at a cost of
about ₹22,000 crores
Purvanchal expressway
covers the eastern
stretch of Uttar
Pradesh (UP) from
Lucknow at its west to
Ghazipur in the east, 18
km from the Bihar
border. Expandable to
8 lanes in future, it is a
greenfield highway
constructed in regions
where no road existed
earlier. A 3.2 km
emergency landing
airstrip has also been
constructed on the
expressway for landing
and take-off of Indian
Air Force jets.
Connecting to the
already operational
Agra-Lucknow and
Yamuna expressways it
will reduce commute
time from Delhi to the
eastern border of UP
to about 10 hours. It is
set to give a boost to
the development of
eastern UP, the
Lucknow, Barabanki,
Amethi, Ayodhya,
Sultanpur, Ambedkar
Nagar, Azamgarh, Mau
and Ghazipur districts.
Under chief minister
Yogi Adityanath, UP
has also started work
on a 590 km long
Ganga expressway to
augment its now
prolific network of
expressways. PM
Modi tweeted,
‘Tomorrow is a special
day for Uttar Pradesh’s
growth trajectory. At
1:30 pm, the
Purvanchal
expressway will be
inaugurated’ Image:
TimesOfIndia More at: FirstPost
Australians lift a maiden T20 World
Cup title, outshine the Kiwis
Delhi Declaration on
Afghanistan issued
by eight countries
Cricket, chasing New Zealand’s total of 172 runs in 20 overs,
Mitchell Marsh scored 77 off 50 balls and took Australia past
the Kiwi total with 8 wickets and 7 balls to spare. TheVocalNews
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little to influence
China’s behaviour.
China’s exports to India
are booming amid its
aggression, allowing it
to have its cake and eat
it too.
By refraining from
imposing substantive
costs, India has allowed
the military
confrontation to
remain a low-risk
strategy for China. The
multiple standoffs help
China to keep India off-
balance and stretched.
Rather than India, it is
China that is imposing
costs, including forcing
the diversion of greater
Indian resources for
frontier defence.
Meanwhile, India’s dual
blunder in vacating the
strategic Kailash
Heights and accepting
Chinese-designed
“buffer zones” in three
Ladakh areas has
further emboldened
Beijing, which
peremptorily dismissed
India’s call for a return
to the pre-April 2020
positions as
“unreasonable and
unrealistic”.
It is past time India
sheds its risk aversion
to build leverage over
China. A calibrated
imposition of
progressively
escalating costs has
become imperative.
China’s trade with
India may be modest
as a percentage of its
global trade, but its
large trade surplus
with India contributes
significantly to its
overall trade surplus.
China’s bilateral trade
surplus this year is set
to nearly equal India’s
total defence spending.
The CCP has long
waged economic war
against India through
product dumping to kill
Indian manufacturing.
India must start
employing tariff and
non-tariff trade
restrictions to curb
non-essential imports
from China. Indeed,
China’s aggressive
mercantilism has made
trade diversification
and import
substitution more
exigent. While China
restricts market access
to Indian firms,
Chinese tech
companies, for
example, remain active
in India’s lucrative
cloud-computing space.
China’s challenge to its
territorial integrity
must prompt India to
finally honour then-
Foreign Minister
Sushma Swaraj’s 2014
promise to link its one-
China policy to Beijing’s
adoption of a one-India
policy. Geopolitically,
Taiwan should be to
India what Pakistan is
to China. If China
swallows Taiwan, it will
advance its hegemonic
ambitions and become
a more pressing
military threat to India.
Indian policy ought to
subtly shift from a one-
China stance to a “one
China, one Taiwan, one
Tibet” posture in
practical but undeclared
terms.
It is also time for New
Delhi to downsize
China’s large diplomatic
presence in India,
starting by shutting its
Kolkata consulate,
given the CCP’s designs
on the Siliguri Corridor
and the inflow of
Chinese arms to
insurgents. Modi’s
predecessor played into
China’s hands by letting
it re-establish its
Kolkata consulate
without India
reciprocally being
allowed to reopen its
Lhasa consulate, which
Beijing shut in 1962.
The CCP is seeking to
wear India out in order
to impose a territorial
and military fait
accompli. A punitive
Indian diplomatic and
economic campaign can
help internationally
spotlight CCP’s
strategic miscalculation
in taking on India.
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patrolled frontier into
a perennially hot
border. The lengthy
negotiations since
mid-2020 have only
enabled it to buy time
and consolidate its
land-grabs and build
new military facilities
and fibre optic
networks along the
frontier.
Had India done to
China what China has
done to it (seize
territories through
furtive aggression),
the CCP dictatorship
would have come
down on it like a ton of
bricks. Yet India has
remained loath to
impose biting trade
and diplomatic
sanctions, including as
a means to address
the largely one-sided
trade and contain
China’s influence
operations.
India’s actions last
year — from banning
Chinese mobile apps
to restricting Chinese
companies’ access to
Indian government
contracts — may have
helped assuage public
anger at home over
the aggression but did
What is regarded as
moral in one country
may in another be
considered perfectly
immoral. For instance,
in one country cousins
may marry; in another,
it is thought to be very
immoral; in one, men
may marry their
sisters-in -law; in
another, it is regarded
as immoral; in one
country people may
marry only once; in
another, many times;
and so forth. Similarly,
in all other
departments of
morality, we find the
standard varies greatly
— yet we have the
idea that there must
be a universal
standard of morality.
So it is with duty. The
idea of duty varies
much among different
nations. In one
country, if a man does
not do certain things,
people will say he has
acted wrongly; while if
he does those very
things in another
country, people will
say that he did not act
rightly — and yet we
know that there must
be some universal idea
of duty. In the same
way, one class of
society thinks that
certain things are
among its duty, while
another class thinks
quite the opposite and
would be horrified if it
had to do those things.
Two ways are left open
to us — the way of the
ignorant, who think
that there is only one
way to truth and that
all the rest are wrong,
and the way of the
wise, who admit that,
according to our
mental constitution or
the different planes of
existence in which we
are, duty and morality
may vary. The
important thing is to
know that there are
gradations of duty and
of morality — that the
duty of one state of
life, in one set of
circumstances, will not
and cannot be that of
another.
Swami Vivekananda
Karma Yoga
a series of extracts
Swami Vivekananda Image courtesy Newsgram.com;
China has a declared
right to divert as much
of the shared waters of
Tibet-originating rivers
as it wishes,
regardless of
downstream impacts.
Yet Prime Minister
Narendra Modi’s
government still
employs euphemisms
to describe China’s
19-month-long
aggression: “unilateral
change of status quo”
for land-grabs, “friction
points” for seized areas
and “full restoration of
peace and tranquillity”
for rollback of the
intrusions.
To Modi’s credit,
though, India has
refused to buckle. It
has more than matched
China’s military
deployments and said
bilateral ties cannot
return to normal until
China disengages and
de-escalates at the
border.
China’s frenzied
construction of new
military infrastructure
along the border,
however, signals its
intent to hold on to its
gains of aggression and
turn the once lightly-
Author–Brahma
Chellaney / TNN
Source– Indian Defence
Research Wing
Image: Huntinews
In 1962, the Chinese
Communist Party (CCP)
set out to “teach India a
lesson” by waging a
surprise war. Now, by
stealthily encroaching
on border areas in
Ladakh and then
deepening and
broadening the border
crisis, it seems intent on
making a permanent
enemy of China’s
largest neighbour.
From building a new
axis against India’s so-
called chicken-neck to
advancing its “salami
slicing” through
militarised border
villages, the CCP has
steadily upped the ante.
Its latest provocation is
a ‘Land Borders Law’,
primarily aimed at
furthering its Himalayan
expansionism. Instead
of mutually settled
borders, it enables
unilaterally imposed
borders. Furthermore,
the law’s assertion of
absolute sovereignty
over cross-border
waters means that
App ban not enough. India must start imposing calibrated costs on China
A calibrated
imposition of
progressively
escalating costs has
become imperative.
China’s trade with
India may be modest
as a percentage of its
global trade, but its
large trade surplus
with India
contributes
significantly to its
overall trade surplus.
China’s bilateral
trade surplus this
year is set to nearly
equal India’s total
defence spending.