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General VK Singh - The man who was slandered for defending his honour
Today is Friday – the first of June 2012 – a day of great significance. The government can now heave a sigh of relief as General VK Singh has retired and is out of the way. His tenure at the helm of the Indian army invited undue attention, mostly for 'inconvenient reasons'. Here is a short recap of the 'problems' he created.He refused to accept the government’s command that he was

Siachen: Copter crash kills Army officer
An Indian Army officer was killed and another was injured when the helicopter they were travelling in crashed on the Siachen Glacier on Wednesday.

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Findings in NZ skydiving crash cite weight problem
A skydiving plane that crashed near a New Zealand glacier in 2010, killing nine people, was overloaded because modifications for it to carry passengers were poorly managed, investigators concluded.

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'Pak formally proposed Siachen pullback'
During his meeting with PM Manmohan Singh on April 8, President Zardari had made the request for mutual withdrawal of troops: Antony to Lok Sabha

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Indian troops on vantage higher ground in Siachen: Pak

Lahore: Conceding that Indian soldiers were sitting at higher ground, Pakistan Defence Minister Chaudhry Ahmad Mukhtar has said that the military standoff between the two countries on the Siachen

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Greenland losing ice fast, but not runaway pace
Greenland's glaciers are hemorrhaging ice at an increasingly faster rate but not at the breakneck pace that scientists once feared, a new study says.

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