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Planning flaws cost ’62 war: Report
Top secret document that critiqued India’s preparedness in war against China leaked
New Delhi, March 18
More than 52 years after India’s humiliating military defeat at the hands of China in 1962, serious flaws in India’s planning of the war against its neighbour and the much-debated “forward policy” have been pointed out.

Former Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru with senior Army officers during the 1962 war. A file photo

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Forward policy raised chances of conflict
New Delhi, March 18
Military circles in India often debate that the India-China conflict was caused due to wrong forward policy and its wrong implementation by India.

Contents of war report accurate: 1962 veterans
Chandigarh, March 18
The leak of the closely guarded Henderson Brooks report detailing the reasons for India’s defeat at the hands of the Chinese in 1962 by an Australian journalist Neville Maxwell has kicked off an intense debate in military and security circles.

Bajwa, Tanwar on Cong list of 58; tainted Kalmadi denied ticket
New Delhi, March 18
The Congress today named most of its sitting Lok Sabha members as candidates in the upcoming elections. The party further denied ticket to Suresh Kalmadi, against whom the court has framed corruption charges during the Commonwealth Games.

Cong, BJP spar over war report
New Delhi, March 18
The Congress and the BJP today sparred over the classified report on the 1962 Sino-Indian war with the former accusing the BJP of politicising the issue on the eve of the elections reminding that the Congress never questioned the government on the 1999 Kargil conflict during the General Election then.

	Punjab page: Balloon blast at Jaitley’s roadshow, 12 hurt Navjot Sidhu absent
Close call: Balloons filled with gas exploded during a roadshow of BJP leader Arun Jaitley (2L) in Amritsar on Tuesday. SAD leader Bikram Singh Majithia (L), and BJP leaders Kamal Sharma (3R) and Anil Joshi (R) were standing alongside Jaitley. A Tribune photograph

Missing Malaysian airliner: On Day 11, no headway in one of the most baffling mysteries in the history of modern aviation China deploys 21 satellites to scour its territory Kuala Lumpur/Beijing, March 18 China deployed 21 satellites to scour its territory for a missing Malaysian jetliner, while Australia said it had drastically narrowed its sector of the search area but was still looking in an expanse of ocean the size of Spain and Portugal. Angry families threaten fast Beijing, March 18 Furious Chinese families threatened on Tuesday to go on hunger strike until the Malaysian government tells them the truth about the fate of their relatives aboard a Malaysia Airlines flight which went missing en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.