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Made in India 5th-gen fighter jet: Government clears indigenous stealth fighter jet project as China arms Pakistan | India News

NEW DELHI: Defence minister Rajnath Singh on Tuesday green-lighted the ‘Made in India’ fighter jet programme to produce a fifth-generation stealth fighter jet, the advanced medium combat aircraft (AMCA).India has been working on the ambitious AMCA project to develop a medium-weight, deep-penetration fighter jet with advanced stealth capabilities to bolster its air power.The AMCA, along […]

Gateway jetty is good, SC says, refuses to intervene | India News

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to entertain a plea challenging an order of the Bombay high court which had declined to stay the construction work for a passenger jetty and terminal facilities project near the Gateway of India.A bench comprising Chief Justice B R Gavai and Justice Augustine George Masih noted that […]

‘Turned into criminal’: HC raps Maharashtra government for arresting 19-year-old over Operation Sindoor post | India News

NEW DELHI: Bombay high court on Tuesday rapped the Maharashtra government for arresting a 19-year-old college student over a post on Operation Sindoor. Calling the state government’s reaction “radical”, it questioned why the student was treated as a “criminal” when she had already apologised for the post.A vacation bench of Justices Gauri Godse and Somasekhar […]

Bombay high court to hear today plea of student arrested for post on Op Sindoor | India News

MUMBAI: The vacation bench of Bombay high court on Monday postponed to Tuesday a petition seeking interim bail filed by a second-year engineering college student from Pune arrested for her social media post on Indo-Pak hostilities amid Operation Sindoor. The student has also challenged her rustication from college as being “arbitrary and unlawful”. She is […]

Viral photo: Pak PM Shehbaz Sharif gifts Asim Munir a fake image of ‘Operation Bunyan’ against India | India News

NEW DELHI: In what can only be described as a bizarre mashup of fantasy and farce, Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif gifted a framed photograph to Army chief and newly-appointed field marshal Gen. Asim Munir to commemorate “Operation Bunyan-ul-Marsoos”. The only catch? The image is not from any Pakistani battlefield. It’s a 2019 Chinese rocket […]

Gang-raped & tortured, 45-year-old tribal woman bleeds to death in MP | India News

INDORE: A 45-year-old tribal mother of two died after being allegedly gangraped and brutalised in a village of Madhya Pradesh’s Khandwa, leaving her so badly injured that her intestines were protruding when she was found Saturday afternoon bleeding and unconscious.Two men last seen with the victim have been arrested, DIG Siddharth Bahuguna said.The savage assault, […]

Mediation or informal diplomacy? Decoding Trump’s claims of brokering India-Pakistan truce | India News

NEW DELHI: In the aftermath of the Pahalgam terror attack and ‘Operation Sindoor’, a major question emerged on the global stage: Did US President Donald Trump mediate a ceasefire between India-Pakistan or was the decision completely bilateral?While Trump made several claims of brokering truce, India made it clear that the decision was bilateral and was […]

‘Yachna nahin, ab rann hoga’: How Army used powerful music and visuals to deliver their message post Operation Sindoor | India News

NEW DELHI: After decimating nine terrorist hotspots in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir under Operation Sindoor on May 7, the Indian armed forces had delivered a powerful message through videos showcasing military prowess, accompanied by an upbeat rendition of Ramdhari Singh Dinkar’s Rashmirathi.The videos, which grabbed attention at the media briefings, were produced in-house by the […]

When Indian TV news made social media look sane | India News

In times of war and other crises, people want news by the minute, but during Op Sindoor some Indian TV channels went overboard, at times running reports of deep strikes by Indian forces without verification, especially on May 8.Late evening, news anchors claimed Indian Navy had destroyed Karachi port, Indian Air Force had downed Pakistani […]

Maximum speed to rapid descent: What IndiGo pilots encountered before safely landing the plane in Srinagar | India News

Indigo flight emergency lands in Srinagar. NEW DELHI: Pilots of IndiGo’s Delhi-Srinagar flight of May 21 (6E-2142) — which had experienced severe turbulence during a hailstorm — safely manoeuvred through most challenging operating circumstances before safely landing the plane with over 220 people on board at its destination. Once encountering hailstorm near Pathankot, they first […]