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NEW DELHI: Indian Navy on Tuesday received the delivery of ‘Malwan’, the second anti-submarine warfare shallow water craft, built by Cochin Shipyard Limited in Kochi. On the same day, the Navy also launched a next-generation offshore patrol vessel built at Goa Shipyard.INS Malwan draws its name from the coastal town of Malwan in Maharashtra, a…
NEW DELHI: The defence ministry has fully utilised its capital outlay of Rs 1.86 lakh crore (revised estimate) for FY2025-26. In FY2024-25 too, the ministry had utilised its capital budget fully. The overall use of the defence budget, including MoD (civil) and pension, during FY2025-26 stood at 99.62 per cent.The original appropriation for capital expenditure…
NEW DELHI: A total amount of around Rs 1,717 crore was lost to digital payment fraud and online cheating in Delhi between 2023 and 2025, of which only 10% could be recovered, the home ministry told Rajya Sabha on Wednesday. Citing details provided by the Delhi Police, junior home minister Nityanand Rai, in reply to…
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Edappadi K Palaniswami campaigninging in Sivaganga Constituency (Image taken from AIADMK’s X handle) NEW DELHI: At a rally in Sivaganga ahead of Tamil Nadu Assembly polls, Edappadi K Palaniswami on Wednesday launched a sharp attack on CM MK Stalin, accusing him of forging alliances out of “fear of defeat” and alleging a breakdown of law…
NEW DELHI: A blast outside the Punjab unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) headquarters in Chandigarh on Wednesday evening triggered panic in the area, with police confirming that a crude explosive device appears to have been hurled at the site. No casualties were reported.The explosion occurred around 5 pm outside the party office in…
NEW DELHI: Chief Minister Rekha Gupta on Wednesday handed over cheques of Rs 1 crore each as financial assistance to the families of six Delhi government employees who lost their lives while on duty during the COVID-19 pandemic. Gupta said the gesture was not merely a government formality, but a heartfelt expression of gratitude, empathy…
In a circular, University registrar R Gunasekaran announced the revised academic calendar for the academic year 2025-26, reducing the number of working days to 79 from 90 “due to administrative reasons.” PUDUCHERRY: Pondicherry University has decided to prepone the examinations from May 6 to April 21 and has directed the students to vacate the hostels…
Eight women workers were killed on the Nagpur-Mumbai Expressway in Jalna district, Maharashtra, after a truck collided with a tempo in which they were standing. The accident occurred on Jalna’s Samruddhi Highway when the workers, waiting in a side lane to leave after work, were struck from behind by a truck that had changed lanes,…
NEW DELHI: President Droupadi Murmu on Wednesday participated in the self-enumeration initiative for the Census 2027 at Rashtrapati Bhavan, according to the President’s Office.Murmu entered her household details on the official portal in the presence of home secretary Govind Mohan, registrar general and census commissioner of India Mritunjay Kumar Narayan and other senior officials, the…
