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DELHI: An Indian plane carrying 161 passengers and crew skidded off the runway at Goa airport on Tuesday, leaving 15 people with minor injuries. The incident took place at around 5 local time (2330 GMT) as the Jet Airways plane was getting ready for takeoff to the western city of …

The fourth test of India’s “Nirbhay” land-attack cruise missile (LACMs), designed to carry nuclear or conventional warheads failed on Wednesday, reported the Times of India. All the four tests of the subsonic missile, with a strike range of 1,000km, have failed to achieve the required test parameters. “The test was …

NEW DELHI: (Web Desk) Police in India are torturing suspects to death in custody with impunity and blaming suicide or natural causes, Human Rights Watch said Monday. The rights group said a failure to follow proper arrest procedures, such as presenting a suspect before a magistrate within 24 hours, was …

NEW DELHI:  (Web Desk) Vice Chief of Army Staff Lieutenant-General Bipin Rawat’s selection as the next army chief, superseding two senior officers, has triggered a political storm. After former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi overlooked General SK Sinha to make General AS Vaidya the army chief in 1983, this is the second …

NEW DELHI: (Web Desk) India on Saturday announced the names of the new army and air-force chiefs along with the heads of the country’s spy agencies. Lieutenant General Bipin Rawat will take over as the new chief of army staff from General Dalbir Singh Suhag as the head of the …

BENGALURU: (Web Desk) Eight-month-old Rayan from Pakistan became the youngest donor of bone marrow in India after the infant saved life of his elder sister, two-year-old Zeenia who was suffering from a rare disease, Haemapha­gocytic Lymphohistio­cytosis (HLH). Her bone marrow produced some abnormal cells which were eating away her normal marrow cells …

DELHI: A Muslim cannot grow a beard after joining the Indian Air Force (IAF) as discipline, uniformity and cohesiveness in the armed forces could not be sacrificed for religious beliefs, which clashed with the rules of a defence force, the Indian Supreme Court ruled. A bench of Chief Justice T …

NEW DELHI: (Web Desk) In its detailed response to the World Bank’s announcement pausing two separate processes to resolve the dispute between India and Pakistan over Kishenganga and Ratle projects, New Delhi today expressed its readiness to bilaterally resolve its differences with Islamabad over the implementation of the Indus Waters …

At least 10 children were injured, three of them seriously, when Indian troops opened fire on a school van in Azad Jammu and Kashmir along the Line of Control (LoC) on Friday, Assistant Commissioner Zeeshan Khan said. The driver of the van, carrying 20 students of a private school, died …

“To me, she was a goddess,” said party worker Shankar as he joined a sea of mourners bidding farewell to Jayalalithaa Jayaram, highlighting the messianic devotion of India’s poor for often controversial champions. Hundreds of thousands of people attended Tuesday’s funeral in Chennai for the veteran Tamil leader, an outpouring …