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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) […]

Army got 7 complaints of human rights violations in 2020, none found to be true: Naik

8:53 pm March 8, 2021

New Delhi: The Army received a total of seven complaints of human rights violations in 2020, but none of them were found to be true, Minister of State for Defence Shripad Naik said on Monday. The Army had received 26 complaints of human rights violations in 2019 and one of them was found to be true, he said in a written […]

He is ungrateful, says TMC on Dinesh Trivedi joining BJP

8:01 pm March 6, 2021

Kolkata: Slamming its former Rajya Sabha MP Dinesh Trivedi for switching over to the BJP, the Trinamool Congress on Saturday said he is “ungrateful” and has backstabbed the ruling party in West Bengal ahead of the assembly polls. Trivedi quit from the upper House of Parliament last month, saying he was feeling suffocated in the […]

CMS holds Global Interfaith Convention to promote communal harmony

Global meet on gender equality gets underway in Kerala

8:28 pm February 11, 2021

Kozhikode: The International Conference On Gender Equality (ICGE)got underway here on Thursday with Kerala Social Justice and Women and Child Development Minister K K Shailaja emphasising the need to promote social entrepreneurship in a big way for the uplift of marginalised sections. Inaugurating the second edition of ICGE, Shailaja said the South Asia’s first Gender […]

Budget for the rich, of the rich, by the rich: Chidambaram

4:30 pm February 11, 2021

New Delhi: The Congress tore into the government in the Rajya Sabha on Thursday for presenting a ”disappointing” budget, with former finance minister P Chidambaram describing it as a ”budget for the rich, of the rich and by the rich” that is meant for only ”one per cent of India’s population that controls 73 per cent of the country’s wealth”. Outrightly […]