At 6.45 am today the Defence Research and Development Organization (DRDO) successfully completed the final trial of Nag anti-tank missile using a live warhead on a dud tank at Pokhran army ranges. The shoulder launched four kilometre range missile with Imaging Infra red seeker will now be inducted in Indian […]
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On India-US agenda, a plan to share defence intel from Ladakh to South China Sea
The 3rd two plus two ministerial meeting next week will see both India and the United States consolidating military-to-military relationship between the two democracies to move towards institutionalised intelligence-sharing agreement and go beyond tri-services exercises into unmanned, space and underwater platform domains, people familiar with the matter said. On October 26-27, Defence Minister […]
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Good news for central govt employees; Cabinet approves 2019-2020 bonus
Ahead of Dussehra, the Centre announced bonus pertaining to year 2019-2020 which will benefit 30 lakh non-gazetted employees. The total financial implication of this will be Rs 3,737 crore. Both productivity-linked bonus and non-productivity linked bonus have been approved, Union minister Prakash Javadekar said on Wednesday announcing the decisions approved […]
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Odisha pins hopes on task force to ease man-animal conflicts; 4 trampled to death in 3 days
The Odisha government has formed a task force headed by its chief wildlife warden to prepare a 3-year master plan for reduction of man-animal conflict, which has seen elephants trample four persons to death in different parts of the state in the last three days. Principal secretary of forest and […]
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Maharashtra: Eknath Khadse leaves BJP; to join NCP
In a major development, senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader Eknath Khadse has decided to leave the party. He will be joining Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) on Friday. State NCP chief Jayant Patil made the announcement Wednesday. Patil said that Khadse had informed him “sometime back” that he had decided to […]
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Uddhav says relief package for flood-hit farmers soon, doesn’t give a date
Maharashtra chief minister Uddhav Thackeray on Wednesday said that the state will announce a relief package for farmers hit by damages to crops or property in flood-affected areas of the state in a couple of days. Thackeray made the statement during an interaction with farmers in Katagaon taluka of Osmanabad […]
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Court firm on ‘no entry’ to Bengal’s puja pandals, eases limit for organisers
The Calcutta High Court on Wednesday modified its order that declared all Durga Puja pandals as no entry zones and increased the number of people who are allowed inside the pandal at a time. The court has raised the cap on the number of puja committee members who can enter […]
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China’s shaky victory at United Nations elections reveals its great fall
There were hardly any celebrations in Beijing this month when President Xi Jinping’s China, often rebuked for human rights violations, made it back to the United Nations human rights council this month. Because tucked behind Beijing’s win, was a huge loss of support that many see as a reflection of […]
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Nitish Kumar mentally, physically tired: RJD’s Tejashwi Yadav ahead of Bihar polls
Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader and Mahagathbandan’s chief ministerial candidate in Bihar Tejashwi Yadav on Wednesday trained his guns on chief minister Nitish Kumar saying that the Janata Dal (United) leader was mentally and physically exhausted and targeted him over the state of employment in the state. “Nitish Kumar Ji […]
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After Bihar Assembly Election 2020, another reshuffle in Congress on the cards
Congress president Sonia Gandhi is expected to execute another organisational reshuffle soon after the assembly elections in Bihar, introducing some new faces in different wings of the party, including the all-important communications department, people familiar with the development said. A Congress functionary said on the condition of anonymity that there […]
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Covid-19: FELUDA test likely to hit the market within the month
India’s first indigenously developed test for coronavirus disease (Covid-19) based on the genetic editing tool CRISPR/Cas-9 is likely to hit the market within the month, confirmed an official from the science ministry. The test, which was developed by researchers from the Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, will be marketed by […]
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Eye on China, govt to bar universities from pacts with India’s neighbours
The education ministry, after consultation with the Ministry of External Affairs, is considering making it mandatory for Indian universities to obtain prior permission from the government before signing any memorandum of understanding (MoUs) with educational institutions of countries that share land borders with India. The proposal was mooted by the […]
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India hands back PLA soldier who strayed across contested LAC in Ladakh to China
A People’s Liberation Army soldier, who was caught by the Indian army for straying across the contested Line of Actual Control (LAC) in Ladakh, was on Tuesday handed back to China at the Chushul Moldo meeting point, officials said. The soldier was held in eastern Ladakh’s Demchok sector amid the ongoing border […]
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2 doctors connected to Hathras case asked to go by hospital
Two medical officers at the JN Medical College (JNMC) in Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) connected to the case involving the gang rape and murder of a 19-year-old Dalit woman in Hathras were removed from their posts on Tuesday. One had contradicted the state police’s claim that the victim wasn’t raped, […]
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30 million frontline workers to get Covid-19 vaccine in phase 1
India is looking at vaccinating about 30 million people, including healthcare specialists, who are on the frontline of the fight against the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) in the first phase once protection against the viral disease becomes available, Union health ministry officials said on Tuesday. The 30 million include 7 million […]