He's a devout Hindu but places fairness above religion.
'I have joined a Rs 100 crore club that no actor in India, it seems, will dare join.'
Gen Vij succeeds Air Chief Marshal S Krishnaswamy, who retires on Friday.
India's maiden moon mission Chandrayaan-I is set for a late October or an early December launch, according to noted space scientist and former chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation Krishnaswamy Kasturirangan.The spacecraft, which will carry five Indian and six international experiments, has been assembled and undergoing a series of tests.India has already begun work on the next lunar mission in which space scientists plan to land a rover on moon.
Air Marshal S P Tyagi has been named the next Chief of the Indian Air Force.
President A P J Abdul Kalam presented the awards at a function at the Ashoka Hall of the Rashtrapati Bhavan.\n\n
The Delhi High Court has indicted Chief of Air Staff S Krishnaswamy for indulging in "mala fide exercise of power".
'The pandemic ends only when 70 per cent of the world is vaccinated with two doses.'
Sending the message that investment in art works, especially of some top artists, was good and had lucrative returns, a Chennai-based art gallery has tied up with a private sector bank.
This may perhaps be the first instance of the service chiefs jointly reviewing the security scenario in the Northeast.
The Intermediate Jet Trainer is expected to replace the ageing Kiran aircraft.
If the Taliban have proved one thing over these two decades, it is that they are way smarter than their big brother, observes Shekhar Gupta.
'So what on earth were TN authorities thinking when they staged that arrest? There is something that doesn't add up in this case.'
Rudy, a commercial pilot license holder, will fly at a speed of 95 nautical miles at an altitude of 7,500 feet following the Cauvery river from Mettur to touch Tiruchirappali.
Six pilots from the Indian Air Force will take part in the training to conducted at the Royal Air Force valley base in North Wales.
They were produced from 1966 to 1970 and have completed their expected life span.
Air chief S Krishnaswamy will be there when the group of about 250 people leaves on July 11 to the east of Congo, where forces opposed to the government of Joseph Kabila have been active.
Concerned over the dubious handling of politically sensitive cases by the Central Bureau of Investigation, a group of eminent citizens has written to agency chief Ranjit Sinha seeking to know whether his force really needs autonomy.
President Pranab Mukherjee, Vice President Hamid Ansari and top leaders of the Congress paid rich tributes to former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi on her 97th birth anniversary but no one from the National Democratic Alliance government was present at the event.
The first of the series of readers' photos.
B D Pande was Punjab's governor during Operation Bluestar. In this excerpt from his memoir, In the Service of Free India: Memoir of a Civil Servant, Pande reveals what really went on behind the scenes during those dark days in India's history.
Fadnavis paid tribute at his official residence 'Varsha' to the revered artist.
Strongly condemning the killing of writer MM Kalburgi, Sahitya Akademi today passed a unanimous resolution appealing to state and central governments to take steps to prevent such incidents and asked authors to take back the awards they had returned to protest against "rising intolerance".
General T N Raina was an iconic Indian military leader whose contributions to the nation should be more widely known, notes Lieutenant General Syed Ata Hasnain (retd).
The updated election ads policy for India will require advertisers to provide a 'pre-certificate' issued by the EC or anyone authorised by the poll panel, for each ad. Further, Google will verify the identity of advertisers before their election ads run on its platforms, reports Peerzada Abrar.
Microsat-R, an imaging satellite, is meant for military purposes, but the ISRO did not give any details about it.
As India's international role expands, so must our capabilities, says Brigadier Gurmeet Kanwal (retd).
We should have anticipated it on August 5 last year, when we made the big changes in J&K. Amit Shah left nothing to chance when he told Parliament that 'we will bring back Aksai Chin even at the cost of our lives'. 'Then, there were the new maps, objections to the CPEC going through Indian territory, the weather reports.' A broad territorial status quo had existed in Ladakh-Aksai Chin since 1962. India made its intention to change this public, notes Shekhar Gupta.
'So far there is no clear money trail nor an indisputable smoking gun.' 'But that doesn't mean there aren't disturbing questions and a strange resistance by the government to reveal the price, which only adds suspicion to concern,' observes Karan Thapar.
