Indonesia, 22/8: Indonesia’s defence ministry and US planemaker Boeing have signed an agreement on the sale of 24 F-15EX fighter jets to help modernise the Southeast Asian country’s ageing fleet, the ministry and the company said. Officials from the ministry and a Boeing executive signed the memorandum of understanding at Boeing’s St Louis, Missouri, facility…
New Delhi, 6/2: In a major development, the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) on Saturday inducted women commandos in its anti-Naxal Commando Battalion for Resolute Action (CoBRA) unit. The new inductees will undergo training and then will be sent to Naxal hit areas. On the occasion of the 88th all-women battalion Raising Day, these women…
Subarnapur , 6/2: 2 Hardcore Women( Female )Maoist Surrendered to Police South Range IGP Jayanarayan Pankaj In a press conference held at the Boudh District Police Headquarters, the two surrendered women( Female )hardcore militants welcomed and promised to provide all facilities to the government. Raj Prasad was accompanied by other officers. The two hard-core Maoists…
New Delhi, 11/7: The chiefs of CISF and the BSF on Thursday said 10 per cent posts of constables will be reserved in their respective forces for former Agniveers in line with a decision by the Union Home Ministry. The remarks by CISF Director General Nina Singh and her BSF counterpart Nitin Agrawal came amid…
Ranchi, 2/1: Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren on Tuesday dismissed speculations of his wife Kalpana Soren contesting from Gandey Assembly constituency in the state and termed it as a “complete imagination” of the BJP. There is not an iota of truth in the speculations, Soren told PTI. “Possibility of my wife contesting in near future…
New Delhi, ,24/10: John Shaw, the husband of Biocon head Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, passed away on Monday, a company spokeswoman confirmed. The former vice-chairman of the biotech giant had stepped down from his position last year due to health concerns. His cremation will be held at Wilson Gardens Crematorium in Bengaluru on Monday evening….
New Delhi, 26/3: The Congress on Saturday announced a three-phased campaign, “Mehngai-mukt Bharat Abhiyaan”, against price rise under which it will organise rallies and marches across the country from March 31 to April 7. Congress general secretary and chief spokesperson Randeep Surjewala told a press conference here that in the first phase of…
Pune, 15/8: Serum Institute of India’s (SII) Chief Executive Officer Adar Poonawalla said he expects an Omicron-specific vaccine in the country in six months, SII, the world’s biggest vaccine maker, produces AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine under the brand name Covishield. SII did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment.
New Delhi, 11/2: Scientists have discovered a new layer of partly molten rock under the Earth’s crust that might help settle a long-standing debate about how tectonic plates move. Researchers had previously identified patches of melt at a similar depth. But a new study led by The University of Texas at Austin revealed for the…
Chandigarh, 8/2: Punjab Lok Congress (PLC) chief Capt Amarinder Singh on Tuesday said the Congress had made a big mistake by announcing a chief minister’s face as “a chief minister should be decided on grounds of capability and not on the metric of caste, be it a Scheduled Caste, Jat or Hindu, which they had…
