A video footage of the IAF showing Indian Rafale’s hard point where deadly missiles are attached NEW DELHI: Releasing a video of advanced fighter jets armed with deadly missiles on Republic Day, the Indian Air Force (IAF) on Monday moved to silence some Pakistani and western critics, who had alleged that India did not have…
NEW DELHI: RVS Mani, a former officer in the ministry of home affairs (MHA) named for the Padma Shri this Republic Day eve, was instrumental in blowing the lid off the two contradictory affidavits filed by the UPA govt in 2009, under his signature, in the Ishrat Jahan encounter case.While the first affidavit had cited…
NEW DELHI: Highway construction agencies, including NHAI, are in a bind over the recent trend of road contractors quoting low bids of up to 48% less than the estimated project cost, largely due to aggressive bidding, which usually has a direct bearing on the quality of work.In a recent case, the road transport ministry cancelled…
NEW DELHI: India and the European Union have concluded negotiations for a free trade agreement that will cover goods, services and other aspects of engagement with the deal set to be announced by leaders from the two sides on Tuesday, commerce secretary Rajesh Agrawal said. “It will be a balanced, forward-looking deal for better economic…
NEW DELHI: US President Donald Trump and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping were among the global leaders who extended greetings to the Indian govt and people on Republic Day. While Trump underlined the significance of ties between the world’s oldest and largest democracies, Xi said in a message to President Droupadi Murmu that India and…
Chief Minister Rekha Gupta on Monday laid the foundation stone for development works in the national capital’s slum areas under the Jhuggi Basti Sampark Abhiyan Toli scheme. The inauguration took place at the Chief Minister’s Public Service Centre on the occasion of India’s 77th Republic Day.During the inauguration, she noted that this was the first…
NEW DELHI: Railways should plan station development and redevelopment projects in a staggered manner over a longer period considering that the priority is funding of programmatic corridors, a key inter-ministerial panel has told the national transporter.It has said that expenditure of station redevelopment should be linked to creation of revenue streams from developed stations, including…
Representative image (Photo credit: PTI) NEW DELHI: Prominent agriculture scientist Ashok Kumar Singh, who developed over 25 rice varieties, especially Basmati, and co-developed India’s first genome-edited rice, and former Vice-Chancellor of the Rajendra Prasad Central Agricultural University, Pusa in Bihar, Gopal Ji Trivedi, were among nine persons associated with the farm and allied sector selected…
Representative image (ANI) NEW DELHI: An Indian Army soldier was injured in a landmine explosion near the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir’s Rajouri district on Monday.Officials said that the blast occurred when troops were patrolling a forward area in Keri, close to the LoC. The injured soldier was immediately evacuated to a…
Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge and Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi (Image/X) NEW DELHI: The Congress on Monday accused the Centre of violating established protocol and undermining democratic decorum after Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi and Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge were seated in the third row during the Republic…
