How deceit was built into China s first aircraft carrier
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How deceit was built into China s first aircraft carrier. Image Source: IANS News
Watching Narcos on Netflix may make one wonder how much of the content is fact and how much is fiction. Indeed, facts are often stranger than fiction. Here is one such story: China s first aircraft carrier.
Varyag was to be an Admiral Kuznetsov class multi-role aircraft carrier in the Soviet Navy. She was known as Riga when her keel was laid in Nikolayev on December 6, 1985.
Launched on December 4, 1988, she was renamed Varyag (Varangian) in late 1990, after the famous 19th century namesake former Soviet cruiser.
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Pakistan denying basic human rights to people of PoK, Gilgit-Baltistan: Activists
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3rd February, 2021 08:09:09
People of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) and Gilgit-Baltistan (G-B) are living under hell, like slaves, and are denied all forms of human rights, including freedom to practice religion of their choice, speak their language or follow their culture and customs, global human rights activists have said.
At a panel discussion on Rhetoric vs Reality: Comparing Human Rights & Development in J&K and PoJK-GB organised by Law and Society Alliance and Defence Capital, the activists noted that accepting and acknowledging that a genocide took place against minorities in Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) and this was fomented by Pakistan-sponsored Jihad, will be the first step to heal the deep wounds that have been perpetrated.