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India test-fires two BrahMos missiles from land and air platforms
17 Dec 2019
Defence Research and Development Organisation, Indian Air Force and BrahMos Aerospace jointly conducted the successful trials of two variants of supersonic cruise missile BrahMos to check its capability to hit targets on land and sea with precision
Lt Gen MM Naravane appointed Chief of Army Staff
17 Dec 2019
Lt Gen Manoj Mukund Naravane, who is currently serving as the Army’s Vice Chief, will be serving as the Chief of the Army Staff until April 2022
PM appeals for calm as anti-CAA protests turn violent
17 Dec 2019
The Delhi Police on Monday said the crime branch will investigate the violence in which four DTC buses, 100 private vehicles and 10 police bikes were damaged, even as the police released 50 detained students of Jamia Milia Islamia
Kashmir witnessed ISIS-level terror in 1990: Sunanda Vashist
15 Nov 2019
When voices from Kashmir mosques wanted Hindu women to stay in Valley, not Hindu men as Pakistani insurgents murdered thousands of Kashmiri Hindus in 1990, no one was worried about human rights, columnist Sunanda Vashisht told a US Congressional hearing on Human Rights
Punjab CM sees `ulterior motive’ in Pak’s Kartarpur move
05 Nov 2019
Punjab chief minister Amarinder Singh stressed that Pakistan's move 'indicated an ulterior motive' and Punjab is on heightened alert to check any nefarious design of the neighbouring country
India receives first Rafale fighter jet from France
09 Oct 2019
Rafale is a twin-jet fighter aircraft able to operate from both an aircraft carrier and a shore base
Nearly 110 dead in 4 days as heavy rains batter northern India
30 Sep 2019
Water levels in major rivers, including Ganga, Koshi, Gandak, Bagmati, Mahananda, are on the rise, threatening to breach embankments at many places, and the state government in Bihar has issued a 'red alert'
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COP28 explained: A closer look at COP28's climate change solutions
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The Rise and Rise of HDFC Bank
03 Jul 2023
HDFC, which surged ahead of global majors like HSBC Holdings Plc and Citigroup Inc and left Indian peers like State Bank of India and ICICI Bank in market capitalisation, now ranks fourth largest among the world’s most valuable banks, after JPMorgan Chase & Co, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Ltd and Bank of America Corp
India’s Millet Revolution To Enrich Global Food Basket
02 Apr 2023
Millets, a healthier and cheaper substitute to wheat and rice, are indigenous to many parts of the world, especially in the semiarid tropics of Asia and Africa, and offers a big scope for expanding production and consumption in the foodgrain deficient African continent
Market predator Hindenburg preys on Adani stock
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Almost a month after the damning report of short-seller Hindenburg Research on the Adani Group that claimed that the seven stocks within the group were about 85 per cent overvalued, one of the group's stocks, Adani Total Gas, closed at Rs835 on the BSE, down nearly 79 per cent from its 24 January level, almost close to reaching that valuation
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