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Area around naval installations marked as 'no fly zone'

Women deployed on Indian Navy warships after 24 years

10:34 pm March 8, 2021

New Delhi: Women officers have been deployed aboard Indian Navy warships for the first time in 24 years, officials said on Monday, adding that their posting on aircraft carrier Vikramaditya and fleet tanker Shakti began in December last year. Two women officers each have been deployed aboard the two Indian Navy warships, they said. The navy had last deployed women on Indian Naval Ship (INS) […]

Had Scindia remained in Cong he would have become CM, but now a BJP ‘backbencher’: Rahul

10:09 pm March 8, 2021

New Delhi: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Monday told youth wing leaders that had Jyotiraditya Scindia remained in the party he would have certainly become chief minister but was now a ”backbencher” in the BJP, according to sources. He said he had told Scindia so, but ”he chose a different path” by joining the BJP, where he can never be the […]

Tokyo Olympics: Atanu, Tarundeep, Deepika in Indian recurve archery squad

9:34 pm March 8, 2021

Pune: Seasoned Atanu Das and Tarundeeep Rai among men and Deepika Kumari in the women’s section will headline the Indian recurve archery contingent during this year’s Tokyo Olympics. After the final selection trials (Trial 3) at the Army Insitute of Sports in Pune, a six-strong squad which has three male and equal number of female archers was selected for the quadrennial extravaganza. Besides Atanu and Tarundeep, the […]

Remarks on rape case last week ‘completely misreported’, have highest respect for women: SC

9:25 pm March 8, 2021

New Delhi: The Supreme Court Monday said its observation during the hearing last week in a bail matter in a rape case were “completely misreported” and added that it has the “highest respect for women”. The comments — on International Women’s Day — come in the wake of recent criticism against the Supreme Court that it had purportedly asked a rape […]

Delhi-based Kashmiri scribes, over 25 people from Valley were potential spying targets: Report

Batla House encounter: politics of polarisation, controversies and Bollywood

9:14 pm March 8, 2021

New Delhi: On September 19, 2008, a week after serial blasts tore through the capital, police stormed into a house in Batla House locality searching for terrorists. What followed has been written into contemporary history as the ‘Batla House encounter’ that polarised the city, caused a media frenzy and was even cinematically recreated in Bollywood On Monday, the much […]