Nagpur: The Russian Sukhoi Su-30 fighter aircraft was modified 100 times at Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) and the supersonic missile, BrahMos, is one of the successful additions to the aircraft, said HAL’s chief executive officer (CEO), Saket Chaturvedi on Monday. The CEO’s reference was to a recent addition that enables firing BrahMos from Su-30 aircraft.HAL…
Five members of a family, including two children, died and three were injured after a landslide struck two houses in Himachal Pradesh’s Kullu on Tuesday. All the victims were asleep when the landslide smashed the houses in Shamarni village around 1.30 am. Locals rushed to the site and managed to rescue three people from the…
The deadline for civil construction work for Ram Janmabhoomi temple in Ayodhya has been extended by six months to March 2026. The tentative date to mount the 44-foot-long dhwaj (flag post) over the temple has been set for Nov 25, Ram Temple Construction Committee chairman, Nripendra Mishra, told reporters Tuesday at the start of three-day-long…
NEW DELHI: Observing that issuing summons to any person by a court on the basis of a frivolous or vexatious complaint is very serious as it tarnishes the image of the person, Supreme Court has said that in such cases HCs should intervene to protect the person by quashing the case as it would do…
NEW DELHI: Election Commission Tuesday issued instructions that Aadhaar card be accepted as the 12th document for inclusion in Bihar’s revised electoral roll, in addition to the 11 documents listed in its June 24 special intensive revision (SIR) order. However, the poll panel made it clear that Aadhaar shall be accepted and utilised only as…
Bengaluru: Every day, a whopping 35,000 children on Varthur-Sarjapur Road in the city’s tech corridor are stuck in a grind that has nothing to do with studies. Becoming the collateral damage of the notorious gridlocks triggered by decades of political and official apathy, each student is estimated to lose up to 600 hours a year…
New Delhi: Concerned at the crowding of political space with “inactive” or “defunct” registered unrecognised political parties (RUPPs), Election Commission has now decided to verify the antecedents of founding members of such RUPPs at the registration stage itself.“To remove such dubious applicants and to ensure that only genuine applicants get considered for registration, ECI has…
GUWAHATI: Assam Cabinet approved on Tuesday a new standard operating procedure empowering district commissioners and senior superintendents of police to identify and expel illegal immigrants within 10 days, sidestepping the long route through the Foreigners’ Tribunals.Illegal immigrants detected within 12 hours of crossing into Assam, or found near zero line along the border, will be…
MUMBAI: Maharashtra food and civil supplies minister and OBC neta Chhagan Bhujbal has written to CM Devendra Fadnavis, demanding the latest govt resolution (GR) on Marathas applying for Kunbi (OBC) certificates be scrapped altogether or changed. The GR was issued by the state on Sept 2 in order to get Maratha quota activist Manoj Jarange…
NEW DELHI: Three soldiers have been killed in a major avalanche in the central region of the forbidding Siachen Glacier, the highest and coldest battlefield in the world, in northern Ladakh.Sepoy Mohit Kumar, Agniveer Niraj Kumar Choudhary and Agniveer Dabhi Rakesh Devabhai were trapped when the avalanche hit their forward post in the central glacier…
