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Discussion focused on joint training, regional peace, and security collaboration Bangladesh High Commissioner to India M Riaz Hamidullah has met Indian Army Chief Upendra Dwivedi amid efforts to revive bilateral ties following recent strains. The Indian Army's Additional Directorate General of Public Information disclosed the meeting in a Facebook post on Thursday. According to the post, the two officials "deliberated on enhancing bilateral defence cooperation, including joint training initia ...Read More >
New Delhi, Apr 1 (PTI) Lieutenant General Dhiraj Seth, who helmed the Southern Command during Operation Sindoor last year, took charge as the Vice Chief of the Army Staff on Wednesday. The decorated military officer succeeds Lt Gen. Pushpendra Singh. At a ceremony held on the South Block lawns, the general officer reviewed a guard of honour as he assumed the key leadership post in the Indian Army. A day earlier, Lt Gen. Seth relinquished his previous appointment as the general officer command ...Read More >
New Delhi, Feb 23 (PTI) British architect Edwin Lutyens' statue at the Rashtrapati Bhavan here was on Monday replaced with the bust of Chakravarti Rajagopalachari, the first and only Indian Governor General of independent India, as part of a move aimed at shedding the vestiges of colonial mindset. President Droupadi Murmu unveiled Rajagopalachari's bust at the Grand Open Staircase near Ashok Mandap opposite to the statue of Mahatma Gandhi, during an event attended by Vice President C P Radhakri ...Read More >
NEW DELHI, Dec 15: Commander of the Presidential Guard of the UAE, Major General Ali Saif Humaid Alkaabi, called on Army Chief Gen Upendra Dwivedi and held discussions on enhancing defence cooperation and deepening military-to-military engagement, officials said on Monday.The visiting United Arab Emirates leader also engaged in high-level discussions with senior military leaders. He was briefed on Operation Sindoor and India's security perspective in the region, they said.The Indian Army also sh ...Read More >
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Thursday unveiled a new manual to simplify and rationalise the revenue procurement process for the armed forces. The Defence Procurement Manual (DPM) 2025 will come into effect from November 1. The revenue procurement by the defence services and other organisations under the defence ministry is regulated by the DPM. It was last promulgated in 2009. "Effective from November 1, the new procurement manual will facilitate the revenue procurement amounting to appr ...Read More >
Srinagar, Oct 22: A nine-member sub-committee of Ladakh leadership held its meeting with the top officials of the Ministry of Home affairs (MHA) in New Delhi on Wednesday. The sub-committee meeting held in the North Block was attended by top MHA officials, besides all the members of the Sub-Committee, including three each from Kargil Democratic Alliance (KDA) and Leh Apex Body (LAB), and Member of Parliament Ladakh Muhammad Hanifa Jan, besides Chief Executive Councillors of the twin LAHDCs of K ...Read More >
The deceased was identified as Navjot Singh (52), Deputy Secretary in the Department of Economic Affairs, Ministry of Finance, and a resident of Hari Nagar, they added. A senior official of the Union Ministry of Finance was killed and three people, including his wife, were injured after a BMW allegedly hit his motorcycle near Delhi Cantonment metro station on Ring Road here on Sunday, police said. The deceased was identified as Navjot Singh (52), Deputy Secretary in the Department of Economic ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: A 52-year-old man, serving as deputy secretary in the Department of Economic Affairs under finance ministry in North Block, died, and his wife received "serious injuries" after their motorcycle was hit by a "speeding" BMW in Dhaula Kuan on Saturday. The victim has been identified as Navjot Singh, a resident of west Delhi's Hari Nagar. Police said his wife, Sandeep, is undergoing treatment. DCP (Southwest) Amit Goel said witnesses alleged a woman was driving the BMW when it collided wi ...Read More >
New Delhi: A deputy secretary in the Union Finance Ministry was killed and three others, including his wife, were injured after a high-end SUV allegedly rammed his motorcycle near Delhi Cantonment Metro station on Ring Road on Sunday. The deceased was identified as Navjot Singh, deputy secretary in the Department of Economic Affairs, Union Finance Ministry, and a resident of Hari Nagar, police said. According to police, three PCR calls were received in the afternoon regarding a traffic jam near ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], August 25 (ANI): Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla on Monday expressed concern over the declining decorum and dignity of legislative institutions, calling it a matter that demands urgent attention from all elected representatives. Speaking at the Delhi Legislative Assembly during the Valedictory Address at the Conference of Presiding Officers of States and Union Territories, Birla emphasised that the privilege and freedom of speech granted to Members should not be misused to undermi ...Read More >
New Delhi: The government will now have a new address as the first building - Kartavya Bhavan 3 - is all set to be inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday. The PM will later address a public programme on the Kartavya Path. Over the next two-and-a-half years, all 10 buildings of the Common Central Secretariat (CCS) will be constructed, and the ministries housed in Shastri Bhavan, Krishi Bhavan, Nirman Bhavan and Udyog Bhavan will shift into the swanky hi-tech offices. Kartavya B ...Read More >
Lucknow: Lieutenant General Pushpendra Singh has been appointed as the vice-chief of the Army Staff.A resident of Lucknow's Mahanagar area, he is an alumnus of La Martiniere College and Lucknow University.Prior to this role, he served as the director general, operational, logistics & strategic movement at Army Headquarters.Commissioned into the elite 4th Battalion of The Parachute Regiment (Special Forces) in Dec 1987, Lt Gen Singh's academic journey began at La Martiniere College, followed by h ...Read More >
PNN New Delhi [India], July 15: In a world where education increasingly resembles an assembly line, one Indian startup is quietly but fundamentally challenging the system. Debsie, founded by Adhip Ray, who is also the founder of a digital consultancy called WinSavvy, is on a mission to dismantle the outdated, test-centric, memorization-driven approach that defines most schooling -- and replace it with a learning model rooted in curiosity, critical thinking, and joy. "Children aren't machines. ...Read More >
Bengaluru, July 15 (SocialNews.XYZ) Karnataka BJP on Tuesday alleged that the state is turning into a drug heaven, and is joining the list of northeastern states and Punjab, where the drug menace has become a serious concern. "Drugs that have destroyed the lives of youth in northeastern states and Punjab are now spreading in Karnataka. The state is joining that list," alleged N. Ravikumar, BJP's Chief Whip in the Legislative Council. He said that drugs are rampant in Kalaburagi, Bengaluru, and ...Read More >
New Delhi, July 11 (SocialNews.XYZ) Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Friday chaired the first Governing Council Meeting of National Cadet Corps Alumni Association (NCCAA) at South Block, New Delhi. Addressing the delegation, the Defence Minister described NCC as a "platform that presents an ideal for the youth of the country." He termed the former NCC cadets as strong pillars of India, who are contributing to the nation's development in diverse fields, not just passively but as active drivers ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: Union home minister Amit Shah on Saturday met senior security officers involved in two major anti-Naxal operations in Chhattisgarh and declared that the Centre remains "fully committed" to eradicating left-wing extremism. At North Block, Shah reviewed recent successes with Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Vishnu Deo Sai, Deputy Chief Minister Vijay Sharma, Union Home Secretary Govind Mohan, Intelligence Bureau Director Tapan Deka and other top officials. "I congratulated the officers on t ...Read More >
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has charged five individuals, including goldy Brar, in relation to the 2024 Gurugram club bombing plot, as revealed in a recently filed chargesheet. This case involves a conspiracy to bomb two clubs, aiming to disrupt communal harmony in Haryana, with the banned terrorist group Babbar Khalsa International (BKI) implicated. The NIA's investigation highlights the severity of the plot. Those charged include satinderjit Singh (Goldy Brar), Sachin Talian, An ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], May 23 (ANI): Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu met Defence Minister Rajnath Singh at South Block on Friday, and presented a strategic vision to position the State as a national hub for defence manufacturing and aerospace innovation. According to a release, Chief Minister Naidu, during the meeting, outlined a comprehensive plan encompassing industrial infrastructure, research collaborations, and strategic installations across key locations in Andhra Pradesh. Al ...Read More >
New Delhi: Fifteen years before the arrest of YouTuber Jyoti Malhotra for alleged espionage, India witnessed a shocking betrayal from within its diplomatic ranks. In 2010, Madhuri Gupta, a mid-level diplomat posted at the Indian High Commission in Islamabad, was arrested for leaking classified defence information to Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), in one of the most high-profile honeytrap espionage cases of the decade. A mole in the mission The alarm was first raised in early 201 ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: Faced with a backlash from many veterans as well as Congress functionaries like Priyanka Gandhi over the replacement of a painting of Pakistan's surrender during the Bangladesh war with a 'semi-mythological' one in the Army chief's lounge in South Block, the force on Monday said the 'iconic 1971 painting' has been 'relocated' to its 'most befitting place' in the Manekshaw Centre in Delhi Cantonment. A reproduction of the famous photograph showing Pakistan's Lt-General AAK Niazi signi ...Read More >
Nagpur: Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray on Tuesday claimed the Centre's move to introduce a bill on simultaneous polls in the Lok Sabha was an attempt to divert attention from issues plaguing the country. Addressing reporters in Maharashtra's Nagpur city, Thackeray demanded a transparent election process before implementation of the 'One Nation One Election' proposal. Even the election commissioners should be elected through polls, the former state chief minister said but did not elabora ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: Centre is likely to build a new 6-7 km Metro line from Indraprastha station to North Block, connecting Bharat Mandapam, C Hexagon at India Gate, Kartavya Path, Central Secretariat, and the proposed Yuge Yugeen Bharat Museum at the North and South Blocks. The underground corridor will provide connectivity to all the 10 proposed govt buildings along the Kartavya Path and India Gate, Delhi's most popular tourist spots. Sources said the proposed stretch will be an extension of the 12.3 ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: The Housing and Urban Affairs Ministry is likely to build a 7-km underground metro corridor connecting key landmarks such as the new Common Central Secretariat, India Gate, Bharat Mandapam and the North and South blocks to the Indraprastha metro station, sources said on Tuesday. The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) has been asked to finalise the proposed alignment, they said, adding it will be an extension of the Inderlok-Indraprastha metro corridor that was approved by the Union C ...Read More >
New Delhi: In a significant change to the Central Vista redevelopment project, the Union government has decided to integrate the upcoming Common Central Secretariat (CCS) buildings, North Block, and other important structures with the Delhi Metro network. The move replaces an earlier plan to connect these buildings via moving walkways, a proposal that has now been discarded. A senior official from the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs confirmed on Tuesday that the revision was made to avoid ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: Centre is likely to build a new 6-7 km Metro line from Indraprastha station to North Block, connecting Bharat Mandapam, C Hexagon at India Gate, Kartavya Path, Central Secretariat, and the proposed Yuge Yugeen Bharat Museum at the North and South Blocks. The underground corridor will provide connectivity to all the 10 proposed govt buildings along the Kartavya Path and India Gate, Delhi's most popular tourist spots. Sources said the proposed stretch will be an extension of the 12.3 ...Read More >
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