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Ambala: President Droupadi Murmu, who undertook a half-hour sortie in a Rafale fighter jet Wednesday from here, posed with Squadron leader Shivangi Singh, just before she took to the skies. Singh, the country's first woman Rafale fighter jet pilot, was claimed to have been captured...

New Delhi: The cloud-seeding operation planned for Wednesday in Delhi has been put on hold due to insufficient moisture in the clouds, the IIT Kanpur said. It is also informed that the process remains highly dependent on favourable atmospheric conditions; another attempt to induce artificial...

Kolkata: Heavy rain is likely in several districts of West Bengal till Friday as cyclone Montha gradually loses intensity following landfall, the IMD said. Light to moderate rain is likely to occur in parts of south Bengal as the weather system moves in a north-northwest...

Ambala: President Droupadi Murmu undertook a sortie in a Rafale fighter jet from the Air Force Station in Haryana's Ambala Wednesday. Air Chief Marshal A P Singh also flew in a separate aircraft from the same airbase. Before getting on to the Rafale jet, the...

Jakarta: India's Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) General Anil Chauhan met his Indonesian counterpart, General Agus Subiyanto, Commander-in-Chief of Indonesia's Armed Forces, in Jakarta, discussing ways to deepen Defence cooperation between Indonesia and India, including regional security, maritime affairs, and the Defence industry's development. The...

New Delhi: PIB Fact Check Wednesday flagged a digitally-altered video of President Droupadi Murmu that is being circulated by Pakistani propaganda accounts with false claims alleging that Prime Minister Narendra Modi is using her as a prop to promote Rafale fighter jets. In a post...

New Delhi: The Indian and Chinese militaries held a fresh round of high-level military talks focusing on maintaining peace and security along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in eastern Ladakh. The Chinese defence ministry stated this Wednesday. It said the 23rd round of Corps...

New Delhi: Delhi Police have arrested a 59-year-old man for his alleged involvement in espionage activities and a fake passport racket operating from Jamshedpur in Jharkhand, officials said Tuesday. The accused, identified as Mohammad Adil Hussaini — who also went by the names Syed Adil...

Patna/Kolkata: Jan Suraaj Party founder Prashant Kishor was Tuesday served a notice over his name being reportedly registered as a voter in his home state Bihar, as well as adjoining West Bengal. However, the former political strategist stuck to his guns, asserting that the onus...

Bhubaneswar: The India Meteorological Department (IMD) Tuesday confirmed that the landfall process of Severe Cyclonic Storm Montha has begun along the Andhra Pradesh coast between Machilipatnam and Kalingapatnam, near Kakinada. The storm, classified as a Severe Cyclonic Storm, is packing sustained winds of 90 to...