The United States is offering 245 Stinger missiles to India as part of a weapons package for the Apache attack choppers being acquired by the Air Force. "Two hundred and forty five air-to-air Stinger missiles and 56 launchers are included in the weapons package for the Apache helicopters," said officials of Raytheon, which manufactures the missiles.
The jail houses only hardcore criminals and one of the grouses of the prisoners is that petty criminals are also lodged in the facility, jail sources said.
Of the 83 people implicated in the case, 28 were professional tennis players, playing in the ITF Futures and Challenger categories, and one whose identity was not revealed competed in the 2018 US Open.
Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar on Saturday said that no government would be formed at the centre after the next Lok Sabha elections without the support of Bihar's 40 members of Parliament.
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Forty-nine per cent of Indians polled for the survey are satisfied with the current state of the economy, a seven percentage point drop from last year, while only 45 per cent of respondents are optimistic of the economy improving over the coming four quarters, 15 percentage points lower than the previous year's poll.
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As many as 100 illegal migrants, who attempted to trespass into Manipur through the Manipur-Assam border at Jiribam, have been turned back during the last two days.
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The Big B, who's worked in some memorable Yash Chopra films, wrote a new blog post about the times he spent with the late filmmaker.
Many millennials believe that they have enough time to plan for long-term goals, hence they do not worry about goals such as retirement.
In several parts of the metropolis, shops were shut in protest and schools held prayer meets as a mark of respect to the CRPF personnel who were killed on Thursday.
Poachers killed a rhino and removed its horns at the Kaziranga National Park in Assam on Saturday. Forty two rhinos have so far been killed by poachers and by floods at the Kaziranga National Park in Golaghat district of Assam.
Forty-four Indian Administrative Service officers of the 1982 batch have been empanelled as additional secretaries to the Government of India. However, only once officer each from Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh has been elevated. The maximum number of officers that have been promoted six each -- are from Bihar and Uttar Pradesh.
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