Tensions between Islamabad and New Dehli escalate after 26 people, mostly tourists, were killed in Kashmir last month.

China, on the other hand, controls the high-altitude Aksai Chin desert in the northeast, which India also claims as part of Ladakh. The border between the Indian and Pakistani parts of Kashmir is ...

and later determining the altitude and azimuth with specialized instruments. The meticulous work that followed over the next seventy years resulted in an inch-perfect map of India, something we ...