Jaislmer/New Delhi: A Tejas light combat aircraft (LCA) of the Indian Air Force crashed in Jaisalmer in Rajasthan on Tuesday during an operational training sortie, the first such incident involving the indigenously-built jet. The pilot ejected safely and there were no casualties, officials said. In a brief statement, the IAF said a court of inquiry…
Bhubaneshwar: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday virtually unveiled over 270 railway projects in Odisha and flagged off the state’s third Vande Bharat Express train. The new railway projects included signalling systems, good sheds and a new Vande Bharat Express that will operate between Visakhapatnam and Bhubaneswar, officials said. These were unveiled by the PM…
Chennai: Ahead of the Lok Sabha polls, veteran Tamil actor R Sarath Kumar on Tuesday merged his Akila Indiya Samathuva Makkal Katchi (AISMK) with the BJP. In the presence of AISMK office-bearers and BJP Tamil Nadu unit president K Annamalai, Kumar merged his party with the saffron party. Welcoming Kumar and his party cadres and…
Jaisalme: The mega ‘Bharat Shakti’ exercise to demonstrate the prowess of indigenously manufactured defence equipment of the three services began in Rajasthan’s Pokhran firing range on Tuesday with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and Army Chief General Manoj Pande in attendance. The exercise will be held for about 50 minutes. LCA Tejas,…
Chandigarh: Haryana CM Manohar Lal Khattar on Tuesday handed over his resignation to the governor. He was joined at the Raj Bhavan by his cabinet collagues. Central BJP leaders, including Union minister Arjun Munda and former Tripura Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb, are in the state to oversee the changes. The BJP legislature party may…
Ahmedabad: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said his government undertakes developmental works as part of its mission to build the nation and not to win elections as perceived by some people. He was speaking at an event in Sabarmati area of Gujarat’s Ahmedabad city where he inaugurated and laid the foundation stone of Rs…
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday said that it will consider submission for early listing of a petition seeking to restrain the Centre from appointing new election commissioners as per a 2023 law, the provisions of which have already been challenged in the apex court. Two vacancies of election commissioners have arisen following the…
New Delhi: The rules for implementation of the contentious Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) 2019 were notified on Monday, paving the way for granting citizenship to undocumented non-Muslim migrants from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan, according to officials. With the CAA rules being issued, the Modi government will now start granting Indian nationality to persecuted non-Muslim migrants…
Bengaluru: Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister D K Shivakumar asserted on Monday there is no question of releasing Cauvery river water to Tamil Nadu at any cost now. Amid criticism and protests against the government over allegations that Cauvery water was being released from Krishnaraja Sagar (KRS) dam to Tamil Nadu, he clarified that the discharge…
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday congratulated DRDO scientists over the first flight test of indigenously developed Agni-5 missile, capable of deploying multiple warheads. “Proud of our DRDO scientists for Mission Divyastra, the first flight test of indigenously developed Agni-5 missile with Multiple Independently Targetable Re-entry Vehicle (MIRV) technology,” Modi said on ‘X’….
