OCTAVIUS

  The  day after  Secretary of Defense Rajnatsin told Congress  how  the  missile was  "accidentally  launched" on March  9, a Bloomberg report claims  Pakistan was to launch a similar missile in  retaliation.    Bloomberg  reports that the  Indian Air Force  has launched a  BrahMos  medium-range  cruise missile from Ambala,  Haryana,  about 200 km from  Delhi.  The missile damaged  several  residential  buildings  but  did not cause any  casualties.  Bloomberg reports that  India  did not  use  a  direct hotline between the commanders on both sides to  notify Pakistan.  Instead, Air Force officials  switched  to  shutting  down the missile  system  to avoid further launches,  Bloomberg reported.    The  Pakistani  Air Force said it  was tracking  the  missile's trajectory  from  Sirsa,  Haryana to  the  landing  site  in  the town of Mian Chanu city in Pakistan's Punjab province.  Babal Iftikhar, a  military  spokesman,  told reporters last weekend .  The government

  WW2 World  War II  was a  World War  that lasted from 1939 to 1945.  This included  the majority of the  world's nations (including  all  major nations) that formed  two  conflicting  military  alliances,  the Allies and the  Axis.  In a  full-scale  war involving more than 100 million  soldiers  from more than 30 countries,  key participants threw all  their economic,  industrial  and scientific capabilities behind the war  effort to distinguish  between civilian and military resources.  Aircraft played  an important  role in the conflict,  allowing only two uses:  the strategic bombing of  densely populated areas  and nuclear weapons in war. World War II was by far the  most deadly  conflict in human  history. As a result,  70 to 85 million  people died, most of them  civilians. Tens of millions of people  have  died  in the genocide. The Outbreak of the war In  early  1939,  the German dictator Adolf Hitler  decided  to invade and occupy Poland.  As part  of  that, Poland guar

  Since the beginning of Russia’s all-out invasion of Ukraine on February 24, the Indian government, and large segments of the Indian public, have firmly been on Putin’s side. Hashtags like #IStandWithPutin and #istandwithrussia trended on Indian social media. Here are the reasons : A partnership based on mutual trust : From the start, Moscow regarded its alliance with India as essential to compensate for the American and Chinese domination in Asia. India still takes advantage of it. In 1961, after India used its armed forces to end Portuguese colonial sovereignty over Goa, Daman, and Diu, for instance, the United States, the United Kingdom, France, and Turkey put forth a resolution condemning India and calling upon its government to withdraw its troops immediately. But the Soviet Union opposed the proposal. A multifaceted relationship : The USSR was India’s major trading partner until its collapse. Soviet economic contributions and technical know-how were essential in the establishmen

  Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said peace talks with Russia were beginning to sound “more realistic” but that more time was needed to ensure the outcome of the negotiations was in Kyiv’s interests. Zelenskyy’s comments early on Wednesday came as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine neared the three-week mark and Russian forces continued their bombardment of Ukrainian cities, including the capital, Kyiv, and the southern port city of Mariupol. Negotiators from the two countries have been meeting via video link since Monday, with the Ukrainian delegation pressing for a ceasefire, troop withdrawals, and security guarantees. Russia is yet to capture any of Ukraine’s 10 biggest cities, and officials in Kyiv have raised hopes the war could end sooner than expected, possibly by May. They say Moscow may be coming to terms with its failure to impose a new government by force and is running out of fresh troops. The two sides are expected to speak again on Wednesday.