Chandigarh/Srinagar/Jaipur: Mock drills were conducted on Saturday in states and Union territories adjoining the western border — from Jammu and Kashmir to Gujarat — to enhance wartime emergency preparedness and response capabilities, officials said. Exercises simulating air raids, drone attacks, and other wartime scenarios were conducted, while emergency response teams practised rescue operations as part…
New Delhi: The Congress asked the government on Saturday to tell the country the truth on what losses were suffered during the four-day conflict with Pakistan after Chief of Defence Staff Gen Anil Chauhan acknowledged aircraft losses in the hostilities. Gen Chouhan, however, dismissed as “absolutely incorrect” Islamabad’s claim of downing six Indian jets. Latching…
Jammu: Army chief Gen Upendra Dwivedi has awarded a BSF woman officer and praised the paramilitary force and ex-servicemen for their role during Operation Sindoor, the army said on Saturday. The chief of Army Staff (COAS) reached Jammu on a two-day visit on Thursday and attended the high-level security review meeting chaired by Home Minister…
Singapore: Chief of Defence Staff Gen Anil Chauhan on Saturday acknowledged losses of aircraft in recent hostilities with Pakistan but dismissed as “absolutely incorrect” Islamabad’s claim of downing six Indian jets. Chauhan, in an interview to Bloomberg TV, asserted it is more important to find out why the aircraft were lost so that the Indian…
Bhopal: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday took part in a ‘Mahila Sashaktikaran Maha Sammelan’ in Bhopal on the 300th birth anniversary of legendary queen Ahilyabai Holkar. During the programme at Jamboori Maidan here, he also virtually inaugurated the Super Priority Corridor of Indore Metro, Datia and Satna airports and laid the foundation stone of…
Agra (UP): An anti-drone system has been deployed at the Taj Mahal to enhance security around the wondrous monument, police said on Friday. Assistant Commissioner of Police (Taj Security) Syed Arib Ahmed said the system has been installed within the Taj Mahal premises and is capable of disabling any drone entering the restricted airspace. Surveillance…
Karakat (Bihar): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday accused the Congress and the RJD of cheating people belonging to SC, ST and OBC communities in the garb of social justice and said these INDIA bloc constituents are now “trying to grab power again” in Bihar where assembly elections are due later this year. Addressing a…
New Delhi: Pakistan needs to understand clearly that the “dangerous game” of terrorism that it has been playing since Independence against India is over, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said on Friday. In an interaction with naval warriors on board the aircraft carrier INS Vikrant off Goa, Singh sent a stern warning to Islamabad saying India…
Karakat (Bihar), Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Friday profusely thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi for agreeing to hold a caste census,a demand for which he had been raising passionately. The JD(U) president was sharing the stage with the PM at Karakat, about 140 km from the state capital, where the latter launched development projects…
Karakat (Bihar): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday launched development projects worth more than Rs 48,520 crore in Bihar’s Karakat. The PM, who arrived in Patna on a two-day visit to the state on Thursday, inaugurated the four-laning of the Patna–Gaya–Dobhi section of NH–22, worth around Rs 5,520 crore, and four-laning of the elevated highway…
