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The navies of India, the US, Japan and Australia on November 3 held a series of complex manoeuvres in the Bay of Bengal, kick-starting the four-day-long first phase of the Malabar naval exercise. The mega exercise is taking place at a time India and China are locked in a nearly six-month-long bitter border standoff in eastern Ladakh. The 24th edition …

As the country grapples with the COVID-19 pandemic, here’s another tragedy that’s unavoidable. In Kerala, Karnataka, Goa and Maharashtra, hundreds of houses were damaged on Saturday due to torrential rains and strong winds, uprooted trees and disrupted power supply for hours. Life in the coastal areas was disrupted due to Cyclonic storm Tauktae in the sea. Trees were uprooted at …

According to Economic Times, India has quietly commissioned its secretive nuclear missile tracking vessel that had been under construction since 2014. Once the vessel is commissioned, India will be the only country outside the P-5 – the US, the UK, China, Russia and France – to have this capability. Here’s all you need to know about the Indian Navy’s new …

Cynthia Roli Gupta A  scooter that belonged to Najma and her family in Mustafabad. Cynthia Roli Gupta She says they burned both her vehicles, before they dragged belongings out of her house onto the road and set them on fire. Cynthia Roli Gupta She says her house was set on fire, which raged for 4 hours. Cynthia Roli Gupta The …

The redevelopment project of the Central Vista – the power corridor of the country – envisages many new things from a new triangular Parliament building, which aims to redevelop a 3.2-km stretch called the Central Vista that lies at the heart of Lutyens Delhi built by the Britishers in the 1930s.  It is an ambitious project of the Narendra Modi-led …

Thanks to the efforts of a retired school principal, a desert has become an oasis. Prasannapuri Goswami, a green warrior, has in 35 years created a very special green cover around the majestic Mehrangarh Fort, which is a major tourist destination in Jodhpur, Rajasthan.  As per The New Indian Express, the barren dunes now have a touch of green. One …

1. Targeted Vaccination Drive Better Strategy: ICMR Study  PTI “Smart vaccination” approaches that target the vulnerable population — in the context of the Indian Covid-19 epidemic — make for a smarter public health choice than mass vaccination, a mathematical modeling-based analysis by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) says, as per TNN.  …

Over the years, the number of youngsters joining as commissioned officers from Punjab has declined. But the state government is set to change all that by reversing the trend. It is for this reason that the Maharaja Ranjit Singh Armed Forces Preparatory Institute (AFPI) was set up in 2011, as per The New Indian Express.  162 cadets from the AFPI …

Reuters The COVID-19 Weekly Epidemiological Update published by WHO said that as of June 29, 2021, “96 countries have reported cases of the Delta variant, though this is likely an underestimate as sequencing capacities needed to identify variants are limited. A number of these countries are attributing surges in infections and hospitalizations to this variant.” Read more Jump To 5 …

Richa Dubey, the wife of Kanpur gangster Vikas Dubey who was killed in a police encounter last year has written to Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath seeking permission for euthanasia along with her family. In her letter, Richa alleged that she and her family were being harassed continuously by the authorities and now they do not wish to live …