26th July 2019, will mark 20 years of the Kargil War. On this date, in 1999, India successfully took command of the high outposts which had been lost to Pakistan
Sonia Gandhi, former Congress President and mother to the current one, in response to a question on the invincibility of PM Narendra Modi, has remarked that people assumed the Atal Bihari Vajpayee was invincible in 2004 as well but the UPA managed to secure a win.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in a significant announcement, told the nation that India has developed anti-satellite missiles (ASAT) which can take down enemy satellites in space.
Some of the journalists who had covered the incident had also revealed that Vajpayee government in 1999 had to release three terrorists because the media at that time created too much pressure on the government due to their hysterical coverage of the IC 814 hijacking.