India is projected to double the defence exports, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) officials said on Wednesday. It said that the defence exports will reach upto Rs 50,000 crore by 2028-29. “This year the exports have already reached Rs 21,000 crore,” the ministry said. The Ministry of Defence has notified five positive indigenisation lists of the Services, comprising over 500 items, and four other lists, with over 4,600 items for DPSUs, to ensure that the soldiers use made-in-India weapons and platforms.Earlier, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh referred to the decision to earmark 75 per cent of the capital acquisition budget for…
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Putting an end to uncertainty on her political moves, independent MP Sumalatha Ambareesh from the Mandya Lok Sabha seat in Karnataka, on Wednesday declared that she will not contest in the present Lok Sabha elections and soon she will join BJP. Union Home Minister Amit Shah had made a personal phone call to her during his visit to Bengaluru and spoke to her to support former CM and JDS state President H.D. Kumaraswamy. Kumaraswamy is fielded as the NDA candidate from the Mandya Parliamentary seat to send a strong signal from the BJP and JD) alliance to the state,…
The Union Home Ministry has cancelled the registration of at least five NGOs for alleged violation of various provisions of the Foreign Contribution Regulation Act, sources said. The NGOs whose registrations have been cancelled are CNI Synodical Board of Social Service, Voluntary Health Association of India, Indo-Global Social Service Society, Church’s Auxiliary for Social Action, and Evangelical Fellowship of India, they said. With the cancellation of their Foreign Contribution Regulation Act (FCRA) registration, these NGOs will no longer be able to receive foreign contributions nor utilise the existing available funds. The sources said the home ministry cancelled the FCRA registration…
The death toll in the Bijapur Encounter in Bastar region of Chhattisgarh has increased to 13. It is known that the exchange of fire started on Tuesday morning in Korcholi forests of Jijapur district and continued for 10 hours. Officials said that bodies of 13 Maoists have been found so far. According to the details disclosed by the senior police officials, information was received that the Maoists will hold a plenary in the forests of Bijapur district. As a result, the security forces of District Reserve Guards (DRG), CRPF, Cobra, Bastar Fighters and Chhattisgarh Armed Forces (CAF) have surrounded the…
It is finally former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh ends his eventful parliamentary career, who retires from the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday after six terms and a stint of 33 years that witnessed his phenomenal rise to the position of India’s Prime Minister. Singh (92) was first elected to the House of Elders in October 1991 soon after he assumed charge as Union Finance Minister in June that year. A prime example of lateral entry into the government when such switches were few and far between, leading economist Singh’s first engagement with the Union Government was as economic adviser to the Ministry…
An earthquake offshore Taiwan with a magnitude of 7.2 rocked the capital Taipei on Wednesday morning, knocking out power in several parts of the city and sparking a tsunami warning for the islands of southern Japan and the Philippines. Taiwan television stations showed footage of some collapsed buildings in the eastern county of Hualien, near the quake’s epicentre, and media reported some people were trapped. The quake hit at 07:58 a.m. (2358 GMT) at a depth of 15.5km (9.6 miles) just off the eastern coast of Taiwan, according to Taiwan’s Central Weather Administration. It was the strongest quake to hit…
The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Tuesday issued transfer orders for eight district magistrates and 12 superintendents of police in five states, namely Assam, Bihar, Odisha, Jharkhand and Andhra Pradesh, ahead of the Lok Sabha Elections. According to the poll panel, the decision was taken as part of the “regular review” by the Commission chaired by Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar along with Election Commissioners Gyanesh Kumar and Sukhbir Singh Sandhu. The officials transferred Assam: DM of UdalgiriBihar: DM and SP of Bhojpur district, DM and SP of Nawada districtJharkhand: SP Deoghar, Directed to fill up vacant posts of SP(Rural) Ranchi, DIG Palamu,…
The Supreme Court on Tuesday granted bail to AAP Rajya Sabha member Sanjay Singh, who has been in jail since October last year, in a money laundering case related to the Delhi excise policy scam, after the Enforcement Directorate said it had no objection to Singh being released on bail. “We direct that Sanjay Singh be released on bail on terms and conditions fixed by the trial court,” a three-judge Bench led by Justice Sanjiv Khanna said, noting that he has been behind the bars for six months. However, the Bench – which also included Justice Dipankar Datta and Justice PB Varale clarified…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday said India needs to increase its economic self-reliance in the next 10 years to mitigate the impact of global crises, and make rupee more accessible and acceptable throughout the world. The Prime Minister also said the workload on bureaucrats will increase substantially soon after formation of the BJP-led NDA government at the Centre. Modi was addressing the opening ceremony of the 90th anniversary celebrations of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) here. The RBI commenced its operations on April 1, 1935. He highlighted the role of the RBI in speedy and sustainable growth of the…
Union Home Minister Amit Shah asserted that the Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has no right to talk about democracy now as his grandmother and former prime minister Indira Gandhi put lakhs of people in jail and banned political parties during the Emergency. He hit back at INDIA bloc parties over their ‘Loktantra Bachoa’ (save democracy) rally at Delhi’s Ramlila Maidan on Sunday, saying “no matter how many parties you gather, only Modi is going to come” as prime minister post-elections. The one who commits corruption will go behind the bars, the home minister asserted at his election rally in Jodhpur. The…