As multiple commercial vessels raised distress calls in the wake of Cyclone Tauktae lately, which ravaged the Western coast of India and finally made landfall on the Gujarat coast last Monday, the Indian Navy which was already standby to provide help...
New Delhi: In the wake of Cyclone Yaas, which is expected to make landfall on the West Bengal and Odisha Coast on May 26, the Indian Air Force has put its assets on alert mode as part of its HADR task preparedness.“The IAF has kept 1 C-17, 1 IL...
Men carry a corpse on the banks of Ganga where other bodies can be seen buried in shallow graves some 40km from Allahabad.I could not but compliment the proactive steps some dynastic regimes have taken in the first half of 2020 in controlling the nov...
New Delhi: Defence Minister Rajnath Singh reviewed the efforts of Ministry of Defence (MoD), the three services, Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) and other Defence organisations in assisting the civil administration to tackle the ...
New Delhi: European Investment Bank has announced an emergency EUR 250,000 donation from its own funds to India in response to the escalating Covid-19 crisis.Besides, the European Investment Bank (EIB) and the State Bank of India and the Ministry of ...
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi had a phone call today with Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission.The two leaders exchanged views on the prevailing COVID-19 situation in India and the EU, including India’s ongoing e...
Devotees taking holy dip in Ganga during Kumbh Mela in Haridwar.Unlike other pathogens, the novel coronavirus, Covid-19, seems to be a bit different. It is like Vali, the monkey king with special powers in the Hindu epic Ramayana. Legend has it that ...
Ranchi: In response to the requisition for medical assistance sought by State Govt of Jharkhand, the Military Hospital, Namkum in Ranchi has opened a 50 bed COVID care facility on 27 April 2021 for civilian patients.The modalities of establishment of...
CRPF personnel carry the coffin of a fallen fellow soldier in the April 3, 2021 Maoist attack in Chhattisgarh.Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, during his premiership, had once termed the Maoist (or Naxalite) insurgency the “biggest interna...
US navy destroyer USS Mustin off the Myanmar coast. (File photo) Aiming to boost deterrence against China and to build a blue-economy ecosystem in the Indo-Pacific region, the United States’ the Indo-Pacific Command will enhance military d...