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New Delhi: Lieutenant General Dhiraj Seth has been appointed as the next Chief of the Army Staff (COAS), the government said in a statement Saturday. Lt Gen Dhiraj Seth, presently serving as the Vice Chief of the Army Staff, will assume charge as the next...

New Delhi: The protests and the subsequent atrocities being committed do not seem to have died down in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK), and although the authorities have made an offer for talks, the Joint Awami Action Committee (JAAC) has not accepted it as they feel it...

Kolkata: A team from West Bengal's West Midnapore conducted searches at the residence of the Trinamool Congress General Secretary Abhishek Banerjee early Saturday to trace his executive assistant Sumit Roy. A team from Salboni police station in West Midnapore, led by a Deputy Superintendent of...

New Delhi: Five personnel of the Indian Air Force were killed when a Russian-origin AN-32 transport aircraft crashed in Assam's Jorhat Saturday. The aircraft met with an accident during a routine sortie at around 10 am, the IAF said. "The Indian Air Force (IAF) deeply...

New Delhi: Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan has made it mandatory for all its schools to maintain at least one Sanskrit section in classes VI and IX under the implementation of the third-language framework for the 2026-27 academic session. In a circular issued May 29, the autonomous...

Guwahati: Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma Saturday said the Cabinet has decided that Aadhaar cards would not be issued to those above the age of 18 to ensure illegal immigrants don't acquire the document. In exceptional cases, the district commissioner will have to send...

Dundigal: A total of 231 Flight Cadets (194 men and 37 women), including the first batch of women cadets from the National Defence Academy (NDA), were commissioned as officers in the Indian Air Force (IAF) following their graduation from the Air Force Academy (AFA) Saturday....

New Delhi: An AN-32 aircraft of the IAF met with an accident while landing in Assam's Jorhat district Saturday, the force said, adding that a court of inquiry is being constituted to ascertain its cause. The Indian Air Force (IAF) shared the update in a...

New Delhi: India has successfully carried out flight-tests of key platforms this week to demonstrate its multi-layered Ballistic Missile Defence system's power to intercept long and medium-range missiles, joining a select group of countries having the capability. The BMDs are capable of intercepting incoming long-range...

Guwahati: A transport aircraft of the Indian Air Force crashed while landing in Assam's Jorhat district Saturday, a defence spokesperson said. The incident occurred while the aircraft, AN-32, belonging to 43 Squadron, carrying cargo, was landing at the IAF's airbase in the Rowriah area. Senior...