Lucknow: Defence minister and Lucknow MP Rajnath Singh on Tuesday spoke to Shambhu Dayal Shukla, father of astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla, following his son's successful return after an 18-day mission.Singh conveyed his joy over Shubhanshu's safe arrival and said the entire country was proud of his remarkable accomplishment. "We are thankful to God for Shubhanshu's safe landing. Defence minister Rajnath Singh blessed Shubhanshu and shared his best wishes with us," said Shukla. In a statement posted...Read More
Pune: The ongoing pre-non-interlocking and non-interlocking works to develop the Hadapsar railway station would affect trains' movement in the Daund-Pune section this week from Thursday till Sunday. A total of 17 trains, including DEMUs from Pune to Daund and Baramati to Pune, Pune-Harangul Express (01487), Harangul-Pune Express (01488), Solapur-Pune Intercity Superfast Express (12169) and Pune-Solapur Intercity Express (12170), would remain cancelled on Sunday (July 20), a railway official said...Read More
Lucknow: A Lucknow court on Tuesday granted bail to the leader of opposition and Congress MP Rahul Gandhi after he made an appearance in a defamation case filed over his purported remarks on Army personnel. The court accepted Rahul Gandhi's bail application and released him on a personal bond of Rs 20,000 along with two sureties of the same amount.The court had earlier issued him summons on February 11, after finding a prima facie case against Gandhi. He appeared in person on Tuesday before addi...Read More
Chennai: Madras high court has clarified that private self-financing medical colleges are required to pay only a stipend, and not a full salary, to in-service govt doctors pursuing postgraduate or super-specialty courses under the govt quota.A division bench of Justice R Subramanian and Justice K Surender passed the order while partly allowing a batch of appeals moved by Karpaga Vinayaga Medical College and others. They challenged a single judge's order that directed private colleges to pay sala...Read More
New Delhi [India], July 15 (ANI): Alleging that External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has expressed 'bonhomie' with China during his visit to the country to take part in the SCO Foreign Ministers meeting, Congress on Tuesday said Beijing had fully supported Pakistan during Operation Sindoor and instead of 'a stern response', the Union Minister has 'praised China'. In a statement, Congress spokesperson Supriya Shrinate accused Jaishankar of 'insulting' armed forces with his remarks that the bil...Read More
Guwahati: Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said that there was no information on the claim made by the outfit United Liberation Front of Asom (Independent)that their camps along the Indo-Myanmar border were attacked. He said that he does not foresee any retaliatory action from the ULFA. Sarma while talking to media persons on Tuesday said, "Assam government has information on any strike till now. The Government of India has not informed us regarding any strike. Whatever we have learnt w...Read More
New Delhi [India], July 15 (ANI): Critical commercial negotiations between India and the United States for the GE-414 jet engines are ongoing, and the project is expected to be finalised by March next year. The negotiations are ongoing, and we expect to sign the deal for the GE-414 engines by the end of this financial year, defence officials said here. The programme for getting the jet engines is part of the LCA Mark 2 project, which is planned to be inducted into the Indian Air Force in the n...Read More
New Delhi, Jul 15 (PTI) Chief of Defence Staff Gen Anil Chauhan visited an exhibition dedicated to Operation Sindoor, a decisive military action by the Indian armed forces that has drawn a new red line for terrorism, here on Tuesday. He was given a tour of the solo exhibition, titled 'Himalaya: The Journey Through a Cascade of Colours', hosted at a gallery at the Triveni Kala Sangam, by artist Chandranath Das. The centrepiece of the display is an untitled oil painting -- a bright, colourful ca...Read More
Telangana BJP president N. Ramchander Rao has slammed a ₹25 crore defamation notice on Deputy Chief Minister Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka and sought an unconditional public apology for his 'illegal' and 'unlawful' acts of making false imputations against him with regard to the suicide of University of Hyderabad (UoH) research scholar Rohith Vemula causing him 'serious agony' and 'Irreversible' damage. Mr. Vikramarka has been given three days to apologise or criminal action will be taken claiming dam...Read More
Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India], July 15 (ANI): Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, who is Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha, was on Tuesday granted bail by a MP-MLA court in Lucknow in connection with a defamation case over his alleged remarks related to the Indian Army personnel, made during the Bharat Jodo Yatra in 2022. "Rahul Gandhi appeared before the MP-MLA court in Lucknow today. We moved a bail application, which was accepted by the court on the condition of submitting two sureties of Rs 20,...Read More
Chandigarh: Veteran marathon runner Fauja Singh died on Monday, July 14, after being hit by an unidentified vehicle while out for a walk in his native village in Punjab's Jalandhar district. He was 114. His demise was confirmed by author Khushwant Singh, a former state information commissioner of Punjab, who spoke to Fauja Singh's family members. Khushwant Singh had written a biography on Fauja Singh titled 'The Turbaned Tornado'. The driver, who is yet to be identified, fled after the inciden...Read More
LUCKNOW: A Lucknow special court on Tuesday granted bail to Rae Bareli MP and leader of the opposition in the Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi, in connection with a defamation case filed against him over his remarks made in December 2022 during the Bharat Jodo Yatra. Additional chief judicial magistrate Alok Varma granted bail to Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on production of two sureties of ₹20,000 each. The judge had earlier ordered Rahul Gandhi to appear in person after he failed to attend the previo...Read More
India received the second GE-404 engine from the US for the LCA Mark 1A fighter jet aircraft programme. Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) is expected to receive 12 GE-404 engines by the end of this financial year. The engines will be fitted on the LCA Mark 1A fighter jets. Indian Air Force has placed orders for 83 LCA Mark 1A fighter jets and a proposal to buy 97 more of these planes is at an advance stage. On Monday, Defence Secretary Rajesh Kumar had said that General Electric will increas...Read More
New Delhi, Jul 15 (PTI) A DRDO laboratory and AIIMS-Bibinagar in Telangana have indigenously developed a first-of-its-kind advanced carbon fibre foot prosthesis that can bear loads up to 125 kg, officials said on Tuesday. According to the Defence Ministry, the foot is designed to offer a high-quality and affordable solution accessible to a larger population in need, while delivering performance on par with available international models. The prosthesis has been designed and developed by the DRD...Read More
New Delhi [India], July 15 (ANI): Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) on Tuesday handed over six strategic indigenously designed and developed products against the Naval Staff Qualitative Requirements (NSQR) to the Indian Navy, officials said in a statement. Secretary DDR&D and Chairman DRDO handed over these products to Rear Admiral Sriram Amur ACNS( SSP), Naval HQ at a special ceremony held at Defence laboratory Jodhpu Also Read | Bijapur: 'Shiksha Doot' Among 2 Killed by Ma...Read More
NEW DELHI: Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) on Tuesday handed over six strategic indigenously designed and developed products against the Naval Staff Qualitative Requirements (NSQR) to the Indian Navy, officials said in a statement. Secretary DDR&D and Chairman DRDO handed over these products to Rear Admiral Sriram Amur ACNS( SSP), Naval HQ at a special ceremony held at Defence laboratory Jodhpu The six indigenously designed products include Gamma Radiation Aerial Surveilla...Read More
New Delhi [India], July 15 (ANI): Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) on Tuesday handed over six strategic indigenously designed and developed products against the Naval Staff Qualitative Requirements (NSQR) to the Indian Navy, officials said in a statement. Secretary DDR&D and Chairman DRDO handed over these products to Rear Admiral Sriram Amur ACNS( SSP), Naval HQ at a special ceremony held at Defence laboratory Jodhpu The six indigenously designed products include Gamma Rad...Read More
New Delhi: In cricket, some defeats leave a scar that generations remember. Something like that happened on Monday as India's narrow loss at Lord's in the third Test against England brought back the vivid memories of another heartbreaker. The match took us back to 26 years ago when in Chennai India fell agonisingly short against arch rivals Pakistan despite Sachin Tendulkar's brilliance. Mohammed Siraj's dismissal stirred the deja vu of Chennai. On a tense final day at Lord's, India needed 21 m...Read More
New Delhi [India], July 15 (ANI): In a significant development, India on Monday received the second GE-404 engine from the US for the LCA Mark 1A fighter jet aircraft programme, Defence officials said. The engine has been received by the Public sector firm Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) and it is expected to receive 12 more GE-404 engines by the end of this financial year. The engines will be fitted on the LCA Mark 1A fighter jets. The delivery of the engines had been delayed by more tha...Read More
NEW DELHI: In a significant development, India on Monday received the second GE-404 engine from the US for the LCA Mark 1A fighter jet aircraft programme, Defence officials said. The engine has been received by the Public sector firm Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) and it is expected to receive 12 more GE-404 engines by the end of this financial year. The engines will be fitted on the LCA Mark 1A fighter jets. The delivery of the engines had been delayed by more than a year due to supply ...Read More
New Delhi: Ahead of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Council of Foreign Ministers' meeting to be held in Tianjin, India has made it clear in not so a subtle message to China that Beijing should not adopt double standards when it comes to combating terrorism. "Tomorrow, we will be meeting in the format of the SCO, whose primary mandate is to combat terrorism, separatism and extremism," External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said during his meeting with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi...Read More
Guwahati: The Mizoram government has decided to collect biometrics and biographic data of Myanmar refugees taking shelter in the northeastern state after a military coup in the neighboring country in February 2021. Earlier, Manipur had carried out this exercise. A Mizoram Home Department official, who did not want to be named, told ET, "Towards the end of July, the work of collecting biometric and demographic data of around 35,000 Myanmar refugees would start. The biometric exercise would be co...Read More
The Bombay High Court (HC) recently ruled that booking movie tickets online is a matter of consumer choice, and any restriction against charging a convenience fee for such services violates the "legitimate rights" of theatre owners. The Court added, "If business owners are not permitted to determine the various facets of their business (in accordance with law), economic activity would come to a grinding halt." The verdict came as a major relief for cinema operator PVR and BookMyShow's parent co...Read More
Guwahati, Jul 13: The proscribed ULFA(I) on Sunday claimed drone and missile attacks on its camps along the Myanmar border by the Indian Army, though there was no confirmation about the development from the armed forces. The ULFA(I), in a press statement, said the attacks were carried out with drones in the early hours at several mobile camps. Nayan Asom alias Nayan Medhi, who was the 'chairman' of its 'lower council', was killed in the attacks, while around 19 others were injured, the outlawed...Read More
Guwahati, July 13, 2025 -- The banned militant outfit United Liberation Front of Assam-Independent (Ulfa-I), led by fugitive leader Paresh Baruah, on Sunday accused the Indian Army of launching a missile strike on its camp in Myanmar, killing two of its top commanders and injuring several others. The Indian Army, however, has denied having any information on such an operation. In a statement issued to a local publication, Ulfa-I alleged that the strike occurred during the funeral of one of its ...Read More
Lucknow: Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Sunday said that the Brahmos missile proved instrumental in Operation Sindoor and since then, more than a dozen countries have expressed interest in it. Singh said this at an event in Lucknow where he unveiled a statue of former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Chandra Bhanu Gupta at the National PG College and released a postage stamp in tribute to him. "Just a few days ago, I inaugurated a Brahmos airspace integration and testing facility in Lucknow. You ...Read More
Ranchi: JMM president and chief minister Hemant Soren on Sunday said the official X account of his party has been hacked, prompting him to order a police investigation into it.Apart from expressing concern over the breach, the chief minister appealed to the Elon Musk-owned social media giant to take cognisance of the matter.Party members said at 12:12 am on Sunday, the hackers posted a suspicious link along with an image of a rodent on the JMM's X account, which was immediately flagged by Hemant...Read More
Benaulim (Goa) [India], May 4 : The observer countries of the Shanghai Cooperation Orgsation (SCO), Iran and Belarus could soon become full-time members of the charter as the decision is under consideration as of now, an official said on Thursday. Earlier, India had also invited the two countries to participate in the SCO Defence Ministers' meeting which took place on April 27-28 in Delhi. Minister of Defense of Belarus, Major General Viktor Khrenin and Iran Defence Minister Mohammad Reza Ghar...Read More
Varanasi: A huge congregation of pilgrims and kanwariyas gathered in Kashi a day ahead to offer 'jalabhishek' at Kashi Vishwanath Temple on the first Monday of Shravan. The barricaded area in the vicinity of Kashi Vishwanath Dham was occupied by pilgrims by Sunday evening to ensure early entry into the temple.Apart from enforcing traffic diversions and crowd regulation exercises, officials ensured activation of all kanwariyas camps. District administration announced closing of schools up to clas...Read More
12 Guwahati: The banned insurgent group, United Liberation Front of Asom-Independent (Ulfa-I), claimed that three of its cadres were killed in a targeted drone attack in at least three waves on its mobile camps in Myanmar's Sagaing region near the India-Myanmar border by the Indian Army early Sunday morning. The Ulfa-I said between 2am and 4am, over 150 drones of Indian Army, manufactured in Israel and France, struck several mobile camps of Ulfa-I, and Revolutionary People's Front (RPF), the pol...Read More