- Thursday, February 27, 2025
THE Tata Group-owned Air India has decided to procure its maiden batch of wide-bodied A350 aircraft of Airbus and the first plane is likely to be delivered to the airline by March 2023, sources have said. However, it was not immediately clear how many A350 aircraft will be purchased by…
HE has strongly backed Nupur Sharma, the now suspended Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) member, over her controversial remarks on Prophet Muhammad. Geert Wilders, a right-wing parliamentarian from the Netherlands has said time and again that Sharma did no wrong by uttering the words she did and claimed that he even…
US PRESIDENT Joe Biden has nominated security expert Radha Iyengar Plumb to the post of deputy under secretary of defense for acquisition and sustainment, the latest Indian-American to be named for a key position. Currently serving as the chief of staff to the deputy secretary of defense, Plumb was nominated…
THE Narendra Modi government of India on Tuesday (14) unveiled a radical armed forces recruitment plan called ‘Agnipath’. It tasked defence minister Rajnath Singh and the chiefs of the three services to deal with the criticism that the new scheme will undermine the military’s professionalism and spirit and lead to…
QUESTIONING various provisions of the Centre's 'Agnipath' scheme that envisages recruitment of soldiers on a short-term contractual basis, Varun Gandhi, a member of parliament of India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Thursday (16) said it will give rise to more disaffection among the youths and asked the government to…
Here are the top headlines from India on Thursday, June 16, 2022. General • Protests break out against many parts of North India against the Narendra Modi government’s new recruitment plan for the armed forces; public property destroyed. • Demolishing Muslim properties: India’s Supreme Court asks Uttar Pradesh government to…
A NUMBER of states in India are putting pressure on the Narendra Modi government to extend a programme to continue compensation for losses from a goods and services tax (GST) or face a risk of stalemate while trying to simplify the structure further, Bloomberg reported. The scenario poses a big…
AMID protests against the Centre's Agnipath scheme, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Thursday urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to listen to the voice of unemployed youths and don't take 'agnipareeksha (trial by fire)' of their patience by making them walk on 'Agnipath'. Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra hit out…
THE foreign ministers of the ASEAN (Association of South East Asian Nations) member states on Thursday (16) called on Indian prime minister Narendra Modi and discussed various aspects of cooperation between the two sides. The ASEAN foreign ministers are in New Delhi to attend a two-day conclave being hosted by…
AMID the row over the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government of Uttar Pradesh bulldozing properties of members of the minority Muslim community over street protests, the Indian Supreme Court has sought an affidavit from the state over the same. The top court heard a petition that alleged that the Yogi…
