New Delhi, 27/8: Amid ongoing tariff tensions, India is likely to sign a mega defence deal with the US to buy 113 additional F-404 engines from General Electric for 97 Tejas LCA jets, which the Hindustan Aeronautics Limited will manufacture. The deal worth around $1 billion is likely to be inked by September, according to…
Balasore: As many as five cows died and one was seriously injured after coming into contact with a live electric wire at Kattisahi village under Baliapal police station area in Balasore district. The incident happened when a snapped electric wire fell into a field near Pantha Gadia Pada, where the cows were grazing. According to…
Mumbai, 13/7: The Bombay High Court on Thursday rejected the interim medical bail plea filed by former Maharashtra minister and senior NCP leader Nawab Malik. The veteran politician is suffering from a chronic kidney disease, apart from various other ailments, and had sought temporary medical bail. Malik (64) was arrested on 23 February, 2022…
New Delhi, 1/12:Aviation regulator Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) on Wednesday postponed the resumption of scheduled international flights from December 15, reported PTI quoting sources. The regulator said that it will notify its decision on the date of resumption of scheduled commercial international passengers airline services to/from India in due course. It…
Kolkatta, 15/5 (AO Bureau):In West Bengal (West Bengal), a lockdown of 15 days is going to take place from Sunday ie 16th May. The lockdown, scheduled to be held from May 16 to 30, was announced by the state’s chief secretary Alapan Bandopadhyay on Saturday. The special thing is that there is already a period…
Cuttack: Union Health Minister Jagat Prakash Nadda will launch the much-awaited Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (PM-JAY) for Odisha at the Lower Bali Jatra Ground in Cuttack tomorrow. Odisha Deputy Chief Minister Pravati Parida today reviewed the preparedness for the mega event. As over 25,000 people are expected to gather at the Bali Jatra Ground…
J&K, 11/8: Three soldiers were killed, two others were injured when two militants carried out a suicide attack on an Army operating base camp in Jammu and Kashmir’s Rajouri. Both the fidayeen millitants were killed in the retaliatory action by the Army, officials said. The militants while trying to sneak into a…
Tokyo 17/9: Defending champion Neeraj Chopra has qualified for the final of the World Athletics Championship 2025 javelin throw final in Tokyo. The 27-year-old made the cut for the final with his very first throw of 84.85M at the Japan National Stadium, the same arena where the Indian won the Olympic gold to script history…
Jaipur: A Jaguar aircraft of the IAF crashed in Rajasthan’s Churu district on Wednesday, leading to the death of the two pilots of the twin-seater aircraft. In a statement shortly after the crash, the IAF said, “An IAF Jaguar Trainer aircraft met with an accident during a routine training mission and crashed near Churu in…
New Delhi, 7/4(AO Bureau); The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has kept the repo rate unchanged at 4%. Interest rates on various loans will not be reduced after the RBI’s announcement. So customers are unlikely to benefit from it. The decision was taken at a meeting of the RBI Monetary Policy Committee (MPC), which began…
