Month: May 2025

[ad_1] NEW DELHI: Days after India put the Indus Waters Treaty on hold, triggering protestations from Pakistan, in the aftermath of the Pahalgam terrorist attack, PM Narendra Modi on Tuesday said the water, which belonged to India, would flow in India’s favour and be used by India only.“Pehle Bharat ke haq ka paani bhi bahar ja raha tha... ab Bharat ka paani Bharat ke haq me bahega, Bharat ke haq mai rukega aur Bharat ke hi kaam aayega (Earlier, even the water belonging to India was flowing out, now India’s water will flow for India’s benefit, will stay here for India’s benefit and will be utilised for India only),” the PM said at an event organised by ABP Network.The remarks came as IAF gears up to carry out a major air combat exercise close to the international border in Rajasthan. […]

[ad_1] NEW DELHI: In the early hours of Wednesday, the Pakistan Army opened fire indiscriminately along the Line of Control and the International Border opposite Jammu and Kashmir, using artillery shelling from multiple posts. The unprovoked attack claimed the lives of three civilians, according to the Indian Army, which said it is responding in a proportionate manner."During the night of 06-07 May 2025, the Pakistan Army resorted to arbitrary firing, including artillery shelling from posts across the Line of Control and IB opposite J&K. Three innocent civilians lost their lives in indiscriminate firing/shelling. Indian Army are responding in a proportionate manner," the Army said in an official statement.The firing came shortly after India launched 'Operation Sindoor', a major counter-terror operation targeting terror infrastructure in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK).The operation is a strong response to the April 22 terror attack […]

[ad_1] NEW DELHI: The three-judge inquiry panel's damning report to CJI Sanjiv Khanna has confirmed that a huge amount of cash was found in a storeroom at Justice Yashwant Varma's Tughlaq Crescent residence on March 14, a finding that negates the judge's strenuous claim to the contrary.The report repudiates Justice Varma's repeated statements claiming innocence about the discovery of money from a room within his official residence. Adhering to the principle of natural justice, CJI sent the report to the judge & sought his response within two days. The CJI, who retires on May 13, appears firm on taking the issue to its logical end.In its lengthy report, the panel comprising Punjab and Haryana CJ Sheel Nagu, Himachal Pradesh CJ G S Sandhawalia and Karnataka HC's Justice Anu Sivaraman unequivocally said a huge stash of cash was indeed found in […]

[ad_1] NEW DELHI: The launch of India's maiden human space flight - Gaganyaan - is now scheduled for the first quarter of 2027, space minister Jitendra Singh said on Tuesday. Accompanied by Isro chairman V Narayanan during a media interaction here, the minister said the successful completion of TV-D1 mission and the first uncrewed test vehicle abort mission earlier this year have laid a strong foundation for the upcoming test schedule. The second test vehicle mission (TV-D2) is slated for later in 2025, followed by the uncrewed orbital flights of Gaganyaan involving a female robot, Vyommitra. These milestones will culminate in India's maiden human spaceflight in 2027, marking the country's formal entry into the elite group of nations - currently comprising the US, Russia and China - capable of human spaceflight.Calling it a "historic mission", Singh said "the Gaganyaan programme […]

[ad_1] More women, OBCs, minorities: Collegium data reveals diversityNEW DELHI: For the first time, Supreme Court has made public data relating to collegium recommendations for appointment of judges to high courts, revealing growing diversity with women, OBCs and minorities accounting for a significant chunk of those appointed in recent years.SC segmented the data on caste/gender/minority basis and also declared that 14 out of 192 judges, 7.2 % of the total, appointed to HCs were related to sitting/retired SC/HC judges, a share which seems to pull against the widely held perception of most appointees being drawn from a pool of the pedigreed.Of the 192 judges appointed in the last two-and-a-half years - from Nov 9, 2022, till date - Scheduled Castes accounted for 4% with Scheduled Tribes making up for another 3.6%. OBCs with 16%, MBCs with 3.6%, women with 17.5% […]

[ad_1] NEW DELHI: Indian Armed Forces targeted the headquarters of banned terror groups Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) and Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) in a series of precision strikes carried out at nine sites in Pakistan under Operation Sindoor in early hours of Wednesday, PTI reported citing officials.Bahawalpur emerged as the stronghold of JeM terror group following the release of Masood Azhar in 1999, secured in exchange for the hostages of hijacked flight IC-814. Since then, the group has been linked to a series of major attacks in India, including the 2000 strike on the Jammu and Kashmir assembly, the 2001 Parliament attack, the 2016 assault on the Pathankot Air Force base, and the 2019 Pulwama suicide bombing.Azhar, a UN-designated global terrorist, has remained out of public view since April 2019. He founded the terror group in January 2000 with backing from Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence […]