A major fire broke out early on Friday in one of the largest ammunition depots of the Indian Army at Panagarh in Burdwan district of West Bengal, gutting a store house containing a large number of small arms and ammunition.
Army columns equipped with boats, bulldozers and engineering equippment have been rushed to Nanded and Bhadrachalam districts.
A MiG-29 fighter aircraft crashed near Jamnagar on Monday during a training sortie but the pilot ejected safely.
Though ythe IAF has for the past few years been participating in bilateral exercises with foreign air forces, this will be the first exclusive IAF exercise in seven years.\n
The Air Force has been plagued by frequent crashes, particularly among its aging Soviet-made MiGs.
Pakistan permitted the overflight of the IAF aircraft as a special gesture.
This was the companies' highest loss in two years.
How Chanda Kochhar and her husband Deepak Kochhar find themselves in a huge controversy.
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