Tripathi was tried by court martial and dismissed from service.
Teams of the National Disaster Response Force started landing in Gujarat with the help of the Indian Air Force to undertake preventive evacuation of people living on the west coast, an IAF official said.
Princess Sheikha Latifa is the daughter of Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum, the ruler of Dubai and the prime minister of the UAE.
Russia -- already India's biggest arms supplier from 2014-18, accounting for 58 per cent of India's defence imports -- eyes more, reports Ajai Shukla.
A Navy spokesman said the fire, which broke out near the engine of the warship, was brought under control by Coast Guard and Naval ships after battling for over an hour and half.
India on Friday sent two naval ships and a C-17 aircraft with relief material like medicines and tents along with teams of rescue experts to Sri Lanka which has been severely battered by tropical cyclone Roanu.
Minister for Overseas Indian Affairs Vayalar Ravi is closely monitoring the evacuation operation.
Altogether 602 Indians were on Friday airlifted back home from Larnaca in Cyprus.
The government asserted that the Central Pollution Control Board will inspect the ship
A bench comprising Justice Arijit Pasayat and Justice S H Kapadia has asked the Customs Department to file an affidavit in this regard.
Estimates of asbestos in the ship vary from 50 to 500 tonnes.
It is the country's second aircraft carrier, after the Liaoning, and the first to be made domestically.
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Monday said Pakistan stands with Saudi Arabia and will react strongly if there is a threat to its integrity, but kept mum on Riyadh's request for military assistance to fight Houthi rebels in war-ravaged Yemen.
INS Sunayna, the second of the Naval Offshore Patrol Vessel class of ship, was commissioned in Kochi on Tuesday by Vice Admiral Satish Soni, Flag Officer Commanding in Chief of the Southern Naval Command.
A naval formation consisting of aircraft carrier Liaoning has conducted take-off and landing drills in the South China Sea.
An Egyptian woman, who was among 960 foreign nationals evacuated by India from Yemen, has lauded Indian Army for rescuing her from the strife-torn country.
Dismissing allegations that it is singling out China in maritime disputes, the United States has said in the last one year it has challenged the maritime territorial claims of 18 countries, including some of friendly nations like India and Brazil.
The missile was fired from INS Rajput, stationed in the Bay of Bengal off the coast of Orrisa.
Environmental groups have protested the French government's decision to send the ship to India for dismantling.\n\n
Chinese golfers told to pull out of Taiwan event
India on Tuesday test-fired an advanced version of the 290-km range BrahMos supersonic cruise missile from the Odisha coast. The missile was test-fired from a mobile launcher from the Integrated Test Range at Chandipur at about 10.40 am, Defence Research and Development Organisation said.
The memorial hall exhibits pictures of the dead pilots and letters written to their parents before leaving for suicide attacks on American warships.
'It's scary to know that those arrested passed on sketches of warships etc to the ISI.' 'Who are the people behind the masks? Are they hiding in our various defence units?'
Vice Admiral Venkat Barthan was named the new vice chief of naval staff on Tuesday.
'As she was dragged off the yacht, the princess cried, "I won't go back to the UAE, just kill me now!"' 'She hasn't been heard of since then.' 'Perhaps she is dead.' 'If so, Modi's government has blood on its hands,' notes Sunanda K Datta-Ray.
'The procurement cycle still consumes too much time; little has changed.'
Aimed at enhancing the Navy's coastal surveillance, its largest offshore patrol vessel INS Sumitra was formally commissioned by Chief of Naval Staff Admiral R K Dhowan on Thursday.
This is perhaps the most authoritative portrayal so far of Indian air power as a threat to China.
Pillai said the exports and induction of the missile in the armed forces would be carried out simultaneously.
The cyclone would bring light to moderate rains at most places and 'heavy to very heavy downpour' at some places on November 6.
The Indian ships' participation in MALABAR-16, a maritime exercise with the US Navy and Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force, reflects the vital strategic importance of the region to India.
Looking resplendent in her colourful buntings, the 143 metre long Frigate slipped into the warm waters of the Arabian Sea amidst the strains of `Saare Jahan Se Acha....'
Close on the heels of the sinking of submarine INS Sindhurakshak in which all the 18 personnel died, a fire incident took place on country's only aircraft carrier INS Virat off the coast of Mumbai.
As per plans, the Indian Air Force may use its planes to fly out Indian nationals stranded in Iraq to safer places nearby such as Kuwait or the United Arab Emirates from where commercial airliners would ferry them back to India.
'We have had 27 years of liberalisation and in the same period Korea and Japan and China transformed themselves forever,' says Aakar Patel.
Because the Andaman Islands are gorgeous!
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