The government has cleared the indigenous construction of seven stealth frigates and six nuclear-powered submarines to bolster naval power.
These next generation ships can patrol the oceans for three or four months compared to the navy's current patrol boats, which can be at sea for a maximum of 45 days.
AIP or Air Independent Propulsion system allows the vessel to stay underwater for a longer duration.
The IPL champion's captain Rohit Sharma was fined $ 1,500, while his teammates were docked $ 750 each for maintaining a slow over-rate during their Champions League Twenty20 match against the Rajasthan Royals on Saturday night in Jaipur.
During interrogation, Ajmal Amin Kasab, a militant arrested during the siege, said that they had boarded Al Husseni docked at a distance from Karachi port and were to be dropped near Mumbai waters, official sources said. Kasab, who hails from a poor family of Multan, Punjab, told investigators that they made a last minute decision to shift a Indian vessel to avoid detection by Indian Navy and Coast Guard.
Ajmal Amin, the only terrorist arrested during the operation, told interrogators that the dozen ultras who sailed from Karachi had come to Sassoon Dock from where they were taken first to Cuff Parade and later to the Gateway of India in boats arranged by a frontman of Dawood, who runs several custom clearing houses in Mumbai, sources claimed
Qatar is to construct a special Bedouin-style desert camp to house thousands of fans during the 2022 World Cup as the Gulf state looks to broaden accommodation for the tournament beyond the limited number of apartments and hotels. A fan village among the sand dunes close to the Saudi border will house up to 2,000 visitors in Arabian tents, allowing them to experience the desert from close quarters, Qatar's World Cup organising committee said in a statement on Tuesday. "We will allow visitors from outside the country to enjoy Qatar and their football experience in an entirely new way," said the committee's Abdulaziz al-Mawlawi.
A senior Congressman from South India told Rediff.com, "This is a big setback for Rahul Gandhi's strategy of stalling Parliament. Sushma has not resigned and Khargeji is speaking and debating. What does it say about our stand in this session?"
Financially-stricken Parma have been hit with a further two-point penalty for failing to pay players' salaries the Italian Football Federation (FIGC) have announced.
At least 45 Indian fishermen have been arrested by Pakistani authorities near Karachi
India's majestic aircraft carrier INS Viraat, which is slated to be decommissioned later this year, set sail for the last time from Mumbai for Kochi on Saturday.
Legitimate importers, who pay high import duties, face stiff competition from this illegal grey market, even though smuggling is gradually diminishing with trade liberalisation and declining tariffs, according to the report issued by the USDA's Foreign Agricultural Service.
A woman, whose husband went missing from aircraft carrier INS Viraat around ten years ago, has moved the Bombay High Court challenging the Navy declaring her husband a 'deserter'. According to petitioner Pratibha Raghuram, she was evicted from her house in Navy Nagar in Mumbai in December 1998, barely one month after her husband Raghuram went missing from INS Viraat, which was docked in Goa.
Pakistan's misery continues during the World Cup now chief selector Moin Khan is in the dock for a Casino night out with his wife after the team's defeat against the West Indies on Saturday night.
As if losing the Test series against India was not enough, England's cricket team was on Wednesday fined five per cent of its match fee while skipper Kevin Pietersen was docked 10 per cent of his earnings for maintaining a slow over-rate during the first match in Chennai.
The K N Saikia Commission has indicted former Assam chief minister Prafulla Kumar Mahanta for the secret killings of the relatives of United Liberation Front of Assom's cadres.
The BJP's losses in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh, where the UP CM had addressed nearly 75 rallies, has put a big question mark on his ability to deliver in high-octane contests, reports Virendra Singh Rawat.
The hijacked Japanese merchant ship released with 18 Indian sailors on board today headed towards Mumbai and is being escorted by US-led coalition forces to safe waters from the danger zone in the Gulf of Aden.
The Indian team has filed a written complaint with Match Referee Jeff Crowe and threatened to take a "befitting action" if it is repeated.
The accident took place on board Indian Navy's latest acquisition, INS Jalashwa, while the ship was taking part in the Naval exercises between Visakhapatnam and Port Blair, the Indian Navy spokesman said.
As if the 140-run pounding was not bad enough, Pakistan captain Shoaib Malik was on Wednesday fined 20 per cent of his match fee, and his teammates docked 10 per cent for slow over-rate against India in the ongoing tri-series. ICC Match Referee Jeff Crowe imposed the fine after Pakistan were found two overs short of its target when time allowances were taken into consideration.
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Despite the biggest weekly loss, market analysts expect a better week ahead as falling prices have made stocks very attractive, given that the quarterly results were not a complete letdown.
Munaf had an altercation with Delhi opener Akash Chopra, forcing Sehwag to intervene. The pacer reportedly mouthed something foul to Sehwag, which infuriated the Delhi camp.
BCCI commissioner Sudhir Nanavati said he has all the evidence in the slapping controversy and will submit his report to the BCCI on Monday.
The auditor also raised doubts over the safety procedures.
South Africa captain Graeme Smith was fined 20 per cent while his teammates were docked 10 per cent match fees after the visitors were found guilty of slow over-rate in their first Test match against India.
Confronted with competition, state-run logistics companies are opting for joint ventures among themselves and with the private sector.
The prime minister thanked the people but said it was the start of a long battle, as he urged them to follow social distancing to stop the chain of transmission of Coronavirus which has infected 360 people and claimed seven lives in India.
The speech could have been avoided had the industry representatives been more attuned to the nuances of PM's views on inclusive growth.
With a fast-expanding pool of billionaires and millionaires, India is now an important market for pleasure-craft peddlers.
In his hard-hitting speech at a gathering of ex-servicemen, the prime minister referred to the Bofors scam, AgustaWestland chopper scam, Rafale issue and inordinate delays in procurement of critical military platforms and ammunition by previous government.
Hitting back at Arvind Kejriwal over the DDCA row, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Thursday accused him of spreading "false propaganda", saying he seems to believe in untruth and defamation and delivers a language that borders on hysteria.
Though the security forces engaged in counter-insurgency operations in the state usually maintain tight vigil on all land routes in the state to check movements of militants, the vigil along the course of Brahmaputra River is limited to only occasional patrolling across the channel near Guwahati and few other urban centres of the state.
An American, Russian and Italian lifted off atop a 400-foot golden flame into the night sky over Kazakhstan on Monday to begin a six month voyage of living and working aboard the International Space Station.
Kalvari is expected to enter service by September end.
The Pakistan paceman was penalised for leaving a training camp without the team manager's permission.
'It doesn't look as if any sensible, worldly wise, person is in charge in China.' 'If at all anybody is in charge, it can only be a bunch of bumpkins of whom Xi has become a puppet,' observes B S Raghavan, the veteran civil servant.
"Once the pipeline becomes operational, HDC will lose an annual cargo inflow of 18 million tonne in petroleum and POL products. Given that HDC earns about Rs 100 per metric tonne, the loss works up to Rs 180 crore," Secretary of the Haldia Dock Officers' Forum R K Burman told PTI. Besides, the three oil jetties at HDC, set up at a cost of about Rs 75 crore (Rs 750 million), would become underutilised, Burman said.
Former players Nasser Hussain and Glenn McGrath have hit out at the ICCfor bowing down to BCCI and appeasing them on every count.
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