NEW DELHI: The Army has 7,476 vacant posts of officers while the Navy and Air Force have 1,265 and 621 such vacancies, Minister of State for Defence Ajay Bhatt said on Monday. In his written response to a question in Rajya Sabha, the minister also said that for “airmen, sailors, junior commissioned officers and other […]
NEW DELHI: The Congress on Sunday attacked the Centre over the killing of civilians during an anti-insurgency operation in Nagaland, with Rahul Gandhi saying the government must give a “real reply” as to what is the home ministry doing when “neither civilians nor security personnel are safe in our own land”. At least 13 civilians […]
JAISALMER: India is developing indigenous anti-drone technology to thwart the growing threat from these devices on the country’s borders and it will soon be made available to the security forces, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said on Sunday. Speaking on the occasion of the 57th Raising Day of the Border Security Force (BSF) here, Shah […]
AHMEDABAD: People in India are in “extreme pain” and the economy is still below the 2019 levels, Nobel laureate economist Abhijit Banerjee said on Saturday. He was virtually addressing students of Ahmedabad University during the varsity’s 11th annual convocation which was also held online. Sharing his observations from a recent visit to West Bengal, Banerjee, […]
NEW DELHI: India saw a single-day rise of 2,796 fatalities with Bihar carrying out a reconciliation exercise of its Covid data, pushing the country’s death toll to 4,73,326, while 8,895 new infections were reported, according to Union health ministry data updated on Sunday. India’s total tally of COVID-19 cases has increased to 3,46,33,255, the data […]
NEW DELHI: BJP president and Rajya Sabha member Jagat Prakash Nadda inaugurated an out-patient department (OPD) at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in Bilaspur in Himachal Pradesh on Sunday. Nadda, who hails from Bilaspur, inaugurated the OPD before a function at AIIMS to mark the achievement of Himachal Pradesh of becoming the […]
NEW DELHI: India and Russia are expected to ink a raft of pacts to further boost cooperation in key areas of defence, trade and investment, energy and technology at the summit talks between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Vladimir Putin on Monday, government sources said. In the summit as well as in the inaugural […]
NEW DELHI: With 8,603 people testing positive for the coronavirus infection in a day, India’s tally of cases rose to 3,46,24,360, but active cases declined to 99,974, according to Union Health Ministry data updated on Saturday. The death toll, however, climbed to 4,70,530 with 415 fatalities reported on Saturday, the data released at 8 am […]
Dua is a Hindi broadcast journalism pioneer with stints in Doordarshan and NDTV New Delhi: Veteran journalist Vinod Dua, who was admitted to Apollo Hospital’s intensive care unit, has died, his daughter and actor-comic Mallika Dua said on Saturday. He was 67. The last rites of the well-known journalist, who was hospitalised with Covid earlier […]
NEW DELHI: The government for the first time brought defence policy outside of the shadow of foreign policy with the surgical and airstrikes after the Uri and Pulwama attacks, a “nation first” move that put India in league with the US and Israel, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said on Saturday. The strikes were a […]