New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi had a phone call today with Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission.The two leaders exchanged views on the prevailing COVID-19 situation in India and the EU, including India’s ongoing e...
Devotees taking holy dip in Ganga during Kumbh Mela in Haridwar.Unlike other pathogens, the novel coronavirus, Covid-19, seems to be a bit different. It is like Vali, the monkey king with special powers in the Hindu epic Ramayana. Legend has it that ...
Ranchi: In response to the requisition for medical assistance sought by State Govt of Jharkhand, the Military Hospital, Namkum in Ranchi has opened a 50 bed COVID care facility on 27 April 2021 for civilian patients.The modalities of establishment of...
New Delhi: Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has developed single crystal blades technology and supplied 60 of these blades to Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) as part of their indigenous helicopter development program for helic...
CRPF personnel carry the coffin of a fallen fellow soldier in the April 3, 2021 Maoist attack in Chhattisgarh.Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, during his premiership, had once termed the Maoist (or Naxalite) insurgency the “biggest interna...
New Delhi: Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has developed three variants of the “chaff rocket” for the protection of naval ships from adversary’s guided-missile attacks.The Indian Navy conducted trials of all thr...
Shillong: An existing RCC bridge with Load Class 70 at Barapani at Km 12.865 on NH 40 on Shillong-Silchar Highway was declared unfit for heavy vehicle traffic due to development of vertical cracks on the main beams and piers of the bridge.This was le...
Srinagar: Lieutenant General Devendra Pratap Pandey assumed command of the strategic Kashmir-based Chinar Corps on March 18.On taking over command, he paid homage at the Chinar Corps Memorial at Badami Bagh in Srinagar.The General addressed and inter...
Srinagar: Lt Gen BS Raju handed over command of the strategic Kashmir-based 15 Corps to Lt Gen DP Pandey on Wednesday.The General commanded the Corps in critical phase in 2020 where Kashmir was confronted with the twin challenges of terrorism and COV...
New Delhi: An Indian Air Force pilot was killed on Wednesday morning after his MiG-21 Bison aircraft met with a "fatal accident", the IAF said in a statement.The accident happened when the aircraft was taking off for a combat training ...