Defence Minister Rajnath Singh is presented with a memento from HAL CMD D.K. Sunil at a ceremony to handover the first rear fuselage for LCA MK1A in Bengaluru on March 9, 2025. Photo: PIB via ANI In a first, the rear fuselage for the light combat aircraft (LCA) Tejas Mk1A, manufactured by Alpha Tocol Engineering … Read more
Focus on judge gavel, Unrecognizable judge busy writing verdict or making notes from the book with gavel and balance scale on table | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto Over a month after the Supreme Court cleared the decks to appoint ad hoc judges in High Courts to deal with the rising pendency of cases, the government … Read more
Firefighters battling a wildfire in Ofunato city of Iwate Prefecture. Rain appears to have halted the spread of Japan’s worst wildfire in more than half a century, officials said on March 6. File | Photo Credit: AFP Japan’s worst wildfire in more than half a century, which killed at least one person, has been brought … Read more
The European Union’s (EU) aggressive environmental regulations, particularly the carbon tax, deforestation rules, and supply chain due diligence laws, are one of the biggest hurdles in the negotiations for a proposed trade pact with India, economic think tank Global Trade Research Initiative (GTRI)said on Sunday (March 9, 2025). It said that these regulations could impose … Read more
Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha. | Photo Credit: ANI Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha on Sunday (March 9, 2025) ordered a probe into the killing of three civilians, including a 14-year-old boy, in the upper reaches of Jammu’s Kathua district. “I have ordered a thorough and transparent investigation and all the … Read more
The DGCA is investigating the tail strike incident which occurred when IndiGo’s 6E- 5325 Mumbai-Chennai flight was making a landing on March 8, 2025. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement The tail section of an IndiGo Airbus A321 aircraft scraped against the runway at Chennai Airport on Saturday (March 8, 2025) during the time of landing … Read more
Image used for representational purpose. | Photo Credit: Shiv Kumar Pushpakar Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has sought a detailed report from Air India after an 82-year-old passenger suffered a fall at the Delhi airport following an alleged delay in providing her a wheelchair. The woman was admitted to ICU for brain stroke. “We … Read more
People stage a protest against the Waqf (Amendment) Bill 2024, after Friday prayers, at Asfi masjid in Lucknow on March 7, 2025. | Photo Credit: ANI The Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind on Sunday (March 9, 2025) extended support to the protest called by All India Muslim Personal Law Board and other organisations against the Waqf (Amendment) Bill, … Read more
Supreme Court granted bail to a former excise officer from Chhattisgarh in a cheating and corruption case. File | Photo Credit: SUSHIL KUMAR VERMA The Supreme Court has granted bail to a former excise officer from Chhattisgarh in a cheating and corruption case linked to the high-profile liquor scam in the State. The top court, … Read more
Watch: Mayawati sacks Akash anand | State of affairs inside BSP party This week saw Bahujan Samaj party chief Mayawati remove her nephew Akash Anand, touted earlier as her successor. She has done this once before the middle of the by-elections, after which she brought him back into the party just before the Delhi assembly … Read more