RKS Bhadauria (C), who was the IAF chief, joined the BJP within 2.5 years of his retirement from service.It is said that democracy survives and thrives on four pillars – executive, legislature, judiciary, and free and unbiased media. Howev...
Photo for representation.New Delhi: The Union government has awarded agreements to run 62 per cent of the new Sainik Schools to organizations closely associated with the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and other Hindutva groups between 2022 and 202...
The Katchatheevu island, as shown by the red pin. (Google Earth image)New Delhi: A recent Right to Information query by the Tamil Nadu Bharatiya Janata Party president, K Annamalai, has rekindled a decades-old issue of the transfer of Katchatheevu (a...
Photo for representation.New Delhi: Eight retired Indian Navy officers walked free from Qatari custody, on Monday, ending a months-long saga that saw them sentenced to death for alleged espionage, only to have their fate reversed. The release marks a...
Rajnath Singh (L) with Grant Shapps before their bilateral meeting in London. (Photo: X/@rajnathsingh)New Delhi: The defence minister, Rajnath Singh, held a bilateral meeting with his British counterpart, Grant Shapps, in London, on Tuesday. In a new...
Manipuri women in Chennai during a vigil calling for peace in their state. (Photo via Facebook)The Manipur ethnic violence, which started on May 3, has claimed over 150 lives and displaced more than fifty thousand people, if not more, so far. Althoug...
S Jaishankar (L) with Bilawal Bhutto Zardari at the SCO foreign ministers’ meeting in Goa.Benaulim, Goa: At the Shanghai Cooperation Organization foreign ministers’ meeting here, India’s foreign minister, S Jaishankar, launched a sc...
CRPF troops participating in Republic Day parade 2023New Delhi: India's central armed police forces or paramilitary forces have been facing acute shortage of manpower with the Central Reserve Police Force topping the list among the six forces, th...
Army contingents marching during Republic Day parade in New Delhi. (Representational photo)The 2014 general election was unique in many ways. The world, perhaps for the first time, witnessed expenditure on a poll campaign on such a massive scale, esp...
Veterans at New Delhi’s Jantar Mantar demanding for implementation of one rank, one pension. (File photo)The genuine demand of the veterans of the armed forces seeking one rank, one pension (OROP) has been hanging fire for a very long time. The...