IAF starts work on ‘Vayu Baan’ NEW DELHI: With drones taking centre stage in conflicts around the world, the Indian Air Force (IAF) has started work on the country’s first helicopter-dropped drone project, called ‘Vayu Baan’ (air arrow).Vayu Baan is an indigenous air-launched effects (ALE) programme designed to integrate unmanned aerial systems directly with manned […]
NEW DELHI: Signalling an aggressive push ahead of the West Bengal assembly elections, the Congress on Saturday said it will contest all 294 seats in the state and will not shy away from fielding a candidate against chief minister Mamata Banerjee in Bhawanipur.The announcement came after a meeting of the party’s Central Election Committee (CEC) […]
NEW DELHI: A 22-year-old man died by suicide in Madhya Pradesh’s Shivpuri district after streaming his final moments on Instagram, police said on Saturday. The incident, which unfolded late on Friday night, has raised concern over the role of social media in such tragedies, with a 14-minute video of the act later circulating online.According to […]
US Ambassador to India Sergio Gor NEW DELHI: Defence and security cooperation represents the most strategically significant area of collaboration in India-US ties, said US ambassador to India Sergio Gor underlining the importance of the deepening defence ties with a new 10-year framework and enhanced defence industrial cooperation, science and technology collaboration, and operational coordination.In […]
NEW DELHI: Criminal proceedings cannot be initiated merely based on vague and unsupported allegations, ruled SC, quashing a dowry harassment and cruelty case filed against a Kanpur-based couple in their seventies by their daughter-in-law.A bench comprising Justices B V Nagarathna and Ujjal Bhuyan noted that the case was lodged almost seven years after the alleged […]
SRINAGAR: Ulfat Bano collects around 25 letters from the district post office in south Kashmir’s Shopian every morning and sets out on foot. There is no postal van to hop onto or a bicycle she can use if weariness strikes.The 55-year-old trudges through her native village of Hirapora, past stone walls and wooden barns with […]
NEW DELHI: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) accounted for more than 91 per cent of all donations declared by national parties in 2024-25, as overall political funding above Rs 20,000 shot up 161 per cent from the previous fiscal, according to a report by the Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR).The report, released on Thursday, said […]
NEW DELHI: The Central Consumer Protection Authority (CCPA) on Wednesday warned hotels and restaurants of action in case it found them levying additional charges under heads such as “LPG charges,” “gas surcharge,” and “fuel cost recovery” in food bills.The authority issued an advisory invoking provisions of the Consumer Protection Act observing that such charges are […]
MUMBAI/NEW DELHI: The Indian Institutes of Technology continue to anchor the country’s global reputation in engineering, placing multiple disciplines firmly within the world’s top 50 QS rankings by subjects. Close behind, management education is carving out its own space, with institutions such as IIM Ahmedabad pushing into elite global ranks and signalling India’s growing influence […]
NEW DELHI: The BJP on Wednesday named Ratna Debnath, mother of the RG Kar Medical College rape and murder victim, as its candidate from Panihati in its third list of nominees for the upcoming West Bengal Assembly elections, formally bringing the bereaved mother into the electoral fray.In a press release, the party said its Central […]
