Nine proposed foreign arms deals worth £4.67 billion have been scrapped in pursuit of the “Make in India” policy, while expenditure on procurement from abroad has reduced from 46% to 36% in the last three years, the defence minister told Parliament.
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20th Dec 2025 | Updated at 02:09am 20th Dec 2025
CM Sharma visits UK to usher investments into ‘Rising Rajasthan’
The Rajasthan Chief Minister Bhajanlal Sharma, Deputy CM Diya Kumari with delegates visited London last week, to host an investor meet. The afternoon was organised by FICCI and High Commission of India at Taj 51 Buckingham Gate, and was attended...
Punjab govt to move SC against governor
Chandigarh: The two-day Punjab assembly session was cut short by a day after chief minister Bhagwant Mann informed the House that since governor Banwarilal Purohit had not given assent to the three money Bills, his government would resume the...
Gaganyaan test flight's crew module successfully recovered by Navy
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KCR unveils poll promises to counter Congress' guarantees
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TMC stands for 'terror, mafia, corruption': Nadda
Kolkata: Launching a frontal attack on the Mamata Banerjee-led regime in Bengal, BJP national president J P Nadda said that the time has come to bid farewell to the jungle raj of the TMC, which stands for ’Terror, Mafia, Corruption’.
Encroachment row: Didi gives Amartya Sen land deed
Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee on Monday handed over land record documents of Nobel laureate Amartya Sen’s residence in Santiniketan to the celebrated economist, dismissing the claims of the current Visva-Bharati dispensation that he was illegally...
Vibrant Gujarat roadshow held in Mumbai
Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani held a roadshow in Mumbai on November 26, for the ninth edition of the Vibrant Gujarat Global Summit 2019
Manchester airport delivers major boost to north with new Mumbai connection
Jet Airways’ five-times-a-week service from Manchester to Mumbai took for the first time this morning, at a celebration attended by Aviation Minister, Baroness Liz Sugg and hundreds of guests from across the region.
Even as the US warned India that there would be “consequences” for the countries trying to circumvent its sanctions against Russia, India's external affairs...
Fresh from an assembly election victory in Punjab, the AAP launched its campaign for the Gujarat assembly election with the party’s national convener and Delhi CM, Arvind Kejriwal, leading a 2km roadshow in Ahmedabad last week.
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, who contracted Covid-19, has postponed his maiden trip to India planned for next week, his office said. Bennett,...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi hailed the trade deal signed between India and Australia last week, saying it will open up fresh opportunities for students, professionals and tourists of the two countries and enable both the sides to better harness...
With the Delimitation Commission on the verge of completing its exercise in Jammu & Kashmir, the Centre is hoping that assembly polls shall be conducted in the Union Territory along with Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh by the end of this year.
Mahatma Gandhi reached Dandi, a small costal village in Gujarat, after travelling 385 km with 78 followers to break the recently imposed "Salt Law". This event is known as 'Dandi March' and was started from Sabarmati Ashram near Ahmedabad. The...
The ruling BJP has for the first time touched the 100-mark in the Rajya Sabha and become the first party to reach the milestone after 1988, but its new position may be a shortlived one as four of its MPs who entered the Upper House as nominated...
India will have back-to-back security and defence dialogue with the US and Japan this month. Following the 2+2 foreign and defence ministerial dialogue...
The Calcutta High Court ordered a CBI investigation into the murder of Congress councillor Tapan Kandu of Jhalda Municipality in West Bengal's Purulia district.
