Without advanced towed array sonar systems, all warships the navy has built and bought since the 1990s would be sitting ducks in war.
The sixth Jaipur International Film Festival will see 156 films from 90 countries screened at the festival.
'As I watched Sacred Games, I kept flinching at the thought of all the thorns poised to lodge themselves in the sides of the thin-skinned,' says Mitali Saran.
Congress termed the raids as highly vindictive and said it is part of "PM Narendra Modi's hate agenda and political vendetta against the Congress and its leaders".
As a percentage of the military budget, the navy's share has fallen from 19 per cent in 2010-2011 to just 15.5 per cent this year. With the Indian Navy's annual budget declining steadily, security planners are reluctant to green light crucial projects, discovers Ajai Shukla.
A day after high drama at a key meeting of the ruling Samajwadi Party, its state unit chief Shivpal Yadav on Tuesday said all was well in the party as he visited Mulayam Singh Yadav's residence and was joined in later by Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav.
After sharing the dais with SP supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav earlier this month, former party leader Amar Singh on Monday had a closed door meeting with the national president again at his residence.
Reliance's network includes the wide reach of IM Global,
'My passion remains pushing for probity in public life and I shall continue my fight,' S N Shukla tells Virendra Singh Rawat.
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Shahid Kapoor and Mira Rajput tied the nuptial knot at a farmhouse on the outskirts of Delhi on July 7.
'India is called the largest democracy in the world, and one cannot believe that there are two Constitutions, two penal codes and two sets of laws.'
Sukanya Verma lists her favourite songs of 2018. Are these on your playlist too?
'I may sound snobbish but I am genuinely tired of responding and saying thank you on Facebook, on Twitter, on phone calls. People are calling from everywhere. There is all this excitement and different groups are throwing parties. I have to attend them or else they will think I am snooty.' Meet Masaan director Neeraj Ghaywan.
Amazing stories about some of our best loved movies from Bhavani Iyer who wrote them.
>The Indian Navy wants 'day and night capable, all weather multi-role deck based combat aircraft which can be used for air defence, air-to-surface operations, buddy refuelling, reconnaissance, electronic warfare missions' from its aircraft carriers.
Amid snow-capped mountains and on board warships, India's armed forces demonstrated their impressive yoga skills. Let's take a bow!
'Fashion brands that have leading stars as brand ambassadors spend a fortune on showcasing them.'
Horror, drama, romance and action... it's all on your plate this year!
Activists of Himachal Pradesh Youth Congress today burnt an effigy of BJP MP and BCCI Secretary Anurag Thakur for his alleged links with a Chandigarh-based bookie even as the state Congress Committee has urged the BCCI to take against him.
Bhushan Kumar sacks Subhash Kapoor as director of the Gulshan Kumar biopic.
Now the the job of searching out and destroying enemy submarines in the waters off India's coast will fall to the navy's new fleet of a dozen Boeing P-8I aircraft, reports Ajai Shukla.
In a letter to his father and party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav, the chief minister declared his intention to commence his yatra, which was put off last month after the open turf war with his uncle Shivpal Yadav.
Beyond the British and Russian strands interwoven into the Indian Navy's equipment profile and the strong drive towards indigenisation evident today, its future in aircraft carriers appears increasingly linked with America.
A group of 10 JNU teachers has released a 400-page document prepared last year detailing past controversial events on the campus.
'What would a composite of Dawood, Rajan, and Arun Gawli be like?' 'What if an absconding mafia boss were to land in Mumbai tomorrow, tired from all the running, and tender his final apology to the city by narrating his story and narrating it with brutal honesty?' Sreehari Nair watches Sacred Games.
'I would never celebrate the success of my songs, be it with Baar Baar Dekho or Dear Zindagi. With Jahan Tu Chala, I made it a point to enjoy its success.'
It's been a good Cannes for India this year!
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If one drops the book-versus-series chatter, is Sacred Games watchable? Very much so, promises Vanita Kohli-Khandekar.
Trapped is not an easy film to stomach, says Sukanya Verma.
'An ASW corvette without towed array sonar and an ASW helicopter is nothing more than a feeble joke,' says a retired navy commodore.
'Chinese dominance reduces India's influence in South and Southeast Asia and erodes its status globally.' 'For a country striving to create a multipolar Asia, it would be a serious setback,' says Brigadier S K Chatterji (retd).
Once in each President's term in office, he or she carries out a "naval fleet review", a deliberately public assembly of the entire fleet.
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Navy chief Adm. Sunil Lanba said that by 2050, India will have 200 ships, 500 aircraft.
The International Fleet Review, conceived as a show of the country's naval might and readiness for battle, saw as many as 100 naval ships, including 70 from the Indian Navy, taking part in the second edition of the coveted event.
The number of disgruntled leaders in the party is swelling.
Hrithik as Krrish or Anil Kapoor as Mr India? Take your pick!
