40 years ago October 20, 1986: The Kampuchea question
40 years ago October 20, 1986: The Kampuchea question
40 years ago October 20, 1986: The Kampuchea question
The Prime Minister, Rajiv Gandhi, criticised big business houses in India for not making any efforts to boost exports. On the contrary, small entrepreneurs had shown remarkable enterprise in this…
40 years ago, October 17, 1986: Haven that may become hell
Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi said the “vast military” assistance Pakistan was now getting from the US would have to be “equally matched by India”. “We cannot allow military imbalance to…
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2 min readOct 13, 2026 06:53 AM IST First published on: Oct 13, 2026 at 06:40 AM IST US Secretary of State George Shultz said the two-day US-Soviet talks in…
2 min readOct 12, 2026 06:40 AM IST First published on: Oct 12, 2026 at 06:40 AM IST US President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, completed the second…
2 min readOct 10, 2026 06:30 AM IST First published on: Oct 10, 2026 at 06:30 AM IST Fresh floods in the Hooghly, Murshidabad and Birbhum districts of West Bengal…
40 years ago October 9, 1986: India-Pakistan ties nosedive