Month: June 2025

[ad_1] PUNE: Chief of Defence Staff General Anil Chauhan said that "on 10 May at about 1am, Pakistan aimed to bring India to its knees in 48 hours" but "their operation, which they thought would continue for 48 hours, folded up in about eight hours"."Then they picked up the phone and said they wanted to talk," Gen Chauhan said.He said Operation Sindoor was the first time India had engaged in non-contact warfare. "We didn't see each other. We saw it either through radar or at different ranges, except for what was happening on the LoC. It was a mixture of kinetic and non-kinetic war. When I say non-kinetic, that happened in the information domain and cyber domain. And, of course, there were kinetic operations where destruction was being caused. It was also nonlinear in nature. So there's something happening on […]

[ad_1] NEW DELHI: The death toll due to the current wave of Covid-19 in the country has touched 37, with five fatalities reported Tuesday, which included two from Maharashtra and one each from Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Bengal. Total number of Covid-19 cases has touched 4,026, with Kerala reporting 1,416 cases, followed by Maharashtra (494), Gujarat (397) and Delhi (393).Of the 37 Covid deaths reported in India this year, a maximum of 10 have occurred in Maharashtra, followed by Kerala (9), Delhi (4), Karnataka (4), Tamil Nadu (3) and UP (2). Gujarat, MP, Punjab, Rajasthan and Bengal have reported one death each.Both the persons who died in Maharashtra on Tuesday were women in their 70s with co-morbidities that included diabetes, according to information shared by the govt. The victim in Kerala was an 80-year-old man with severe pneumonia, acute respiratory […]

[ad_1] NEW DELHI: Coming down heavily on Trinamool Congress (TMC) workers for targeting Hindu families and their women for supporting BJP during the 2021 assembly elections in alleged complicity with West Bengal police, Supreme Court has cancelled the bail granted to six TMC workers and said such incidents were "grave attacks on the roots of democracy".It allowed an appeal against Calcutta HC's orders granting bail to Sekh Jamir Hossain, Sekh Nurai, Sekh Ashraf, Sekh Karibul and Jayanta Done.'Cancellation of bail requires a higher threshold than grant of bail' A Supreme Court bench of Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta said, "The concerted attack on the (Hindu) complainant's house was launched on the day of election results with the sole objective of wreaking vengeance because he had supported the saffron party. "This is a grave circumstance which convinces us that the […]

[ad_1] NEW DELHI: Conceding the longstanding demands of Ladakhi people for safeguarding their economic rights as well as cultural and linguistic identity, the Centre on Tuesday introduced new reservation and domicile policy for the Union Territory, guaranteeing 85% quota to locals in jobs while also reserving one-third seats for women in the Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Councils.English, Hindi, Urdu, Bhoti and Purgi languages were notified as official languages of Ladakh, with new regulation also requiring boosting institutional mechanisms for promoting native languages like Shina (Dardic), Brokskat (Dardic), Balti and Ladakhi.Ladakh Autonomous Council to reserve 33% of seats for women Centre's move seeks to assuage the sentiments of Ladakh's native population that had been demanding constitutional safeguards to protect their language, culture and land after the special status of the erstwhile state of J&K, which included Ladakh, under Article 370 was […]

[ad_1] BENGALURU: Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla of India and three other members of Axiom-4 mission's multinational crew will launch for International Space Station on June 10 at 5.52pm IST, two days later than the originally planned June 8 lift-off.Axiom Space announced the revised schedule Tuesday, citing no reason for the delay. The mission, led by veteran astronaut Peggy Whitson, will launch from Kennedy Space Center's Launch Complex in Florida.Shukla addressed the world in a stirring final message, combining gratitude, science, and India's cultural pride. "Even stars are attainable," he said. "The last few months have been nothing short of extraordinary - of discovery and unshakable resolve. From diverse systems to advanced platforms, across continents and cultures. This training has been intense but deeply rewarding."Carrying not just scientific equipment but "the hopes and dreams of a billion hearts", Shukla will conduct […]

[ad_1] NEW DELHI: In a reform that promises to fix the delays in updating of voter turnout figures on poll day - a grouse often raised by Congress to question the electoral processes and EC itself - the poll panel Tuesday said it shall replace the manual reporting methods with a streamlined, technology-driven system that will provide timely updates to the public on approximate poll percentage trends."This new process significantly reduces time lag associated with earlier manual reporting methods. The initiative aligns with EC's commitment to ensure timely public communication, which has often been underlined by CEC Gyanesh Kumar," EC said in a statement Tuesday. The faster voter turnout update system shall kick off with upcoming Bihar assembly poll.Reiterating its commitment to keep the public informed and ensure faster updation of approximate voter turnout trends, the poll panel explained that […]

[ad_1] GUWAHATI: At least eight more deaths due to rain-triggered floods and landslides were reported Tuesday in Northeast, taking the toll in the past five days to 44.In Assam, one death each occurred in Hailakandi, Sribhumi, Morigaon, Cachar, Sonitpur and Tinsukia districts. One person died in Manipur, while a labourer perished in a wall collapse in Arunachal Pradesh's Anjaw district.The situation in Assam further deteriorated, with the number of flood-hit people rising from 5.15 lakh on Monday to over 6.33 lakh on Tuesday. Twenty-one of Assam's 35 districts are affected. IMD forecast heavy to very heavy rainfall in isolated areas of Assam, heavy rainfall in Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Mizoram and Tripura on Wednesday. Brahmaputra overshot danger levels in Tezpur Tuesday, as did its tributaries Burhidihing and Kopili. tnn [ad_2] Source link