NEW DELHI: Fighter jets and transport aircraft of the Indian Air Force on Sunday carried out fly-pasts over major cities and towns while military choppers showered petals on leading hospitals across the country as part of a mega exercise to express gratitude to lakhs of doctors, paramedics and other front-line workers battling the coronavirus pandemic. […] More
NEW DELHI: The home ministry on Sunday told the states and Union territories to facilitate the inter-state movement of only distressed migrant workers, pilgrims, tourists and students who had moved from their native places or workplaces just before the lockdown and could not return on account of restrictions placed on movement of persons during the […] More
NEW DELHI: The Indian Air Force on Sunday conducted flypast across India to show gratitude to the thousands of healthcare workers battling the coronavirus pandemic. The flypast was an effort by the country’s armed forces to honour doctors, paramedics, sanitation staff, police and other frontline workers battling the virus. The IAF choppers and jets, including […] More
NEW DELHI: An Army Colonel and a Major were among the five security personnel who were killed in action in a fierce encounter with terrorists at Chanjimulla area of Handwara in north Kashmir’s Kupwara district on Saturday. Two terrorists were killed in the encounter after Colonel Ashutosh Sharma, the commanding officer of 21 Rashtriya Rifles, […] More
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday held a series of meetings with key cabinet ministers and officials of economic ministries to firm up the second stimulus package to lift the economy reeling under the impact of coronavirus-induced lockdown. Home minister Amit Shah, finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman, representatives of economic ministries and senior officials, […] More