New Delhi: The first made-in-India C-295 military transport aircraft successfully completed its maiden flight, the Indian Air Force (IAF) said Wednesday. The IAF is procuring 56 C-295 transport aircraft at a cost of around Rs 21,935 crore. Forty of these aircraft will be assembled by...
New Delhi: Three out of 24 Indian crew members on board a commercial vessel that came under attack off the coast of Oman Wednesday are missing, with India strongly condemning the strike. In its reaction, New delhi said the targeting of commercial shipping and civilian...
Islamabad: An Mi-17 helicopter of the Pakistan Army Aviation crashed near Muzaffarabad in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir Wednesday, killing all personnel on board, the army said. There were no survivors, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), the media wing of the Pakistan military, said, without giving the number...
New Delhi: Amid rumours of a possible merger of the Trinamool Congress (TMC) with the Congress, sources from the Mamata Banerjee-led party dismissed the reports Wednesday, stating there was no such plan. Dismissing the reports, a senior TMC leader called them baseless. We have no...
New Delhi: Asserting that India's youngsters are not scared of questioning the government, the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP), which led a protest last week demanding Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan's resignation, said Wednesday that it would launch an indefinite sit-in at Jantar Mantar from June 20...
New Delhi: The Aam Aadmi Party Wednesday alleged that despite major fire incidents in the national capital, no 'firm action' has been taken against officials responsible. AAP Delhi president Saurabh Bharadwaj alleged that Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) officials are responsible for the lapses, but...
Kolkata: Ten days after the swearing-in of the extended cabinet of the BJP government in West Bengal, portfolios were allocated among the ministers Wednesday, with senior leader Tapas Roy named the industries minister and journalist-turned-politician Swapan Dasgupta getting the finance department. According to a notification...
New Delhi: Top Congress leaders met the Election Commission Wednesday, alleging that the nomination papers of Meenakshi Natarajan, its Rajya Sabha candidate from Madhya Pradesh, were wrongly rejected. A delegation of top party leaders, including K C Venugopal, Randeep Surjewala, Jairam Ramesh, Deepa Dasmunshi, Vivek...
New Delhi: Trinamool Congress MP Sushmita Dev Wednesday resigned from the party and the Rajya Sabha, dealing a fresh blow to the Mamata Banerjee-led party which is facing an internal storm after its defeat in the West Bengal Assembly polls. Dev's resignation as MP has...
New Delhi: Vice President C P Radhakrishnan and Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla Wednesday congratulated Narendra Modi for becoming India's longest continuously serving elected prime minister. Modi, who first assumed office on May 26, 2014, has become the longest continuously serving elected prime minister of...
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On World Environment Day, 5 June, India launched E85, that is, petrol blended with 85 per cent ethanol at 48...
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By Aakar Patel Friend Ram Madhav has written a fine piece on Prime Minister Narendra Modi reaching an important milestone....
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