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40% work on Zojila tunnel over; terrain, weather challenges push completion deadline to 2030The deadline for completion of the 13 km-long Zojila Tunnel, the longest of its kind in Asia and at the highest altitude, has been pushed b...
Air Force to phase out MiG-21 fighter jets by September 2025, will be replaced by Tejas Mk1A: Defence officialsThe Indian Air Force is set to retire its MiG-21 fighter jets by September 2025, after 62 years of service. These jets, first inducted in 1...
From warhorse to legend: MiG-21 to bow out after 62 years in Indian skiesIndia’s MiG-21 fighter jets, in service since 1963, will be retired on September 19 with a ceremonial farewell at Chandigarh airbase. The j...
Shiv Sena (UBT) mouthpiece Saamana calls PM Modi's Independence Day speech "boring"Shiv Sena (UBT), through Saamana, criticized PM Modi's Independence Day speech as election-focused and boring. They accused him of disrespe...
Three tourists killed in accident in J-KThree tourists, including two women, died in a road accident on the Zojila axis of the Srinagar-Kargil Highway in Jammu and Kashmir on Tues...
Bengaluru college students brave floods and typhoid to honor Kargil martyrsTwo college students from Bengaluru, Krishnan A and Peddi Sai Kaushik, cycled over 3,200 km in over 60 days to pay homage to the martyrs at...
Work on Zojila tunnel in full swing, over 40 pc drilling achieved; project to be complete by December 2026The tunnel project - through the mighty Zojila Pass at an altitude of 11,578 feet on the Srinagar-Kargil-Leh National highway - is of strat...
Air Marshal DK Patnaik takes charge as head of Eastern Air CommandPatnaik was commissioned into the fighter stream of the Indian Air Force on June 8, 1984. He is an alumnus of the National Defence Academy,...
14 UAVs down since Kargil: Technical snag, controlling error big causesLack of proper training, crew fatigue and pushing the drone beyond its capability were the other reasons cited.
Lakhs at risk as Jabalpur sits on Kargil duds, Russian RDXThousands of unexploded and rejected bombs from 1999 Kargil war lie buried in the premises of Ordnance Factory Khamaria, located in a dense...
President inaugurates naval maritime aircraft museumAs the city is prone to cyclones, special provisions, like erection of toughened glass shields to prevent damage to the aircraft and corros...
PM Narendra Modi regrets inconvenience caused to citizens in ChandigarhPM Modi's visit to Chandigarh inconvenienced the people in the city, prompting him to later express regret and order a probe into the incid...
PM Narendra Modi speaks on road accidents, social issues; avoids politicsThe project will be launched in Gurgaon, Jaipur and Vadodara and then to Mumbai, Ranchi, Rungaon and Maurya national highways.
Road accidents: Single biggest peacetime killer of soldiersThere is also the "fatigue factor" in long convoys, which carry troops, ammunition and other supplies, to different areas.
Opposition will fail to score on Adarsh Housing scam; party, family backs me: Ashok ChavanChavan said his party wanted him to contest LS polls from Nanded due to anti-incumbency factor and that his family including sitting MP Bha...
- Pak Army quietly names 453 soldiers killed in Kargil War
Eleven years after the Kargil War, the Pakistan Army which has been denying its role in the conflict has quietly included the names of 453 ...
- BJP hits back at PM, says his position shaky
The BJP on Friday hit back at Prime Minister Manmohan Singh calling his attack on it as “desperate rattling” of a “much-weakened” leader wh...