The AMCA is being developed as a twin-engine, medium-weight stealth fighter for the Indian Air Force. NEW DELHI: India’s ambitious Advanced Medium Combat Aircraft (AMCA) programme has taken another step forward, with Reliance Industries and British aerospace major Rolls-Royce, according to news agency PTI, announcing a partnership to develop the fighter’s engine. The development adds…
China’s Fujian aircraft carrier is out at sea. (image credit: Chinese Defense Ministry) China has been on a shipbuilding spree, rolling out aircraft carriers at a pace that has alarmed capitals from New Delhi to Tokyo to Canberra. But for all the steel and swagger on display, Beijing’s prized flat-tops, as aircraft carriers are known,…
A Mirage-2000 of the IAF, this fleet took active part in the Kargil operations. (Image credit: IAF MCC) The Netflix series Operation Safed Sagar has drawn widespread attention in India. It tells the story of the Indian Air Force’s (IAF) high-altitude campaign during the 1999 Kargil War. The story weaves around the exploits of number…
The 1,110-kg test vehicle, developed at Donghu Laboratory, achieved the milestone in its latest trial China has pushed maglev technology into a speed range far beyond conventional high-speed rail, with an experimental train car reaching 800 kmph in only 5.3 seconds on a 1-km test track in Hubei.The 1,110-kg test vehicle, developed at Donghu Laboratory,…
Former TMC MLA Nirmal Ghosh was attacked outside a West Bengal police station. He was arrested in RG Kar victim’s ‘hurried’ cremation case. NEW DELHI: Former TMC MLA Nirmal Ghosh, arrested in connection with the alleged “hurried cremation” of the RG Kar rape-murder victim, was attacked by a mob outside Khardah Police Station in West…
India’s relationship with Iran has also been marked by regular high-level engagement. NEW DELHI: Iranian president Masoud Pezeshkian, amid the elevated tensions in West Asia, is set to visit New Delhi to attend the upcoming BRICS summit, Iranian sources told news agency ANI.Pezeshkian’s participation in the summit is scheduled to be held in the national…
Sukhbir Badal speaking to media after discharge from hospital NEW DELHI: Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) president Sukhbir Singh Badal was discharged from hospital on Friday, a day after he was attacked by an assailant armed with a “kirpan” at a gurdwara in Nanded, Maharashtra.The former Punjab deputy chief minister emerged from the hospital with his…
Rahul Gandhi gets relief as SC quashes summons NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Friday set aside a Lucknow trial court’s order summoning leader of opposition Rahul Gandhi in a criminal defamation case over his remarks about VD Savarkar.A bench of Justices Dipankar Datta and Sheel Nagu held that the required sanction had not been…
Supreme Court’s order provided interim relief to the Tamil Nadu government NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Friday stayed a Madras High Court order that had struck down the Tamil Nadu government’s decision to provide government jobs to eligible relatives of those who died in the Karur stampede last year.A bench of Justices JB Pardiwala…
1,057 personnel awarded Gallantry, Service Medals ahead of Independence Day NEW DELHI: A total of 1,057 personnel from the Police, Fire, Home Guard and Civil Defence, and Correctional Services have been awarded Gallantry and Service Medals on the occasion of Independence Day, the ministry of home affairs said.The awards include 301 Medals for Gallantry (GM),…
