London/New Delhi In anticipation of winning the Indian Air Force's $10.4 billion tender for 126 combat jets, European consortium EADS has offered India a choice to pioneer a project for a naval version of the Eurofighter Typhoon that is in the fray in what is being described as the "mother of all defence deals". Typhoon's competitor in the medium multi-role combat aircraft (MMRCA) tender, the French firm Dassault's Rafale, already...
05:16 PM, Aug 01, 2011
New Delhi: Contrary to doubts raised about his death, historical evidence indicates that Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose died in an air crash Aug 18, 1945, and the nation must accept that he was a martyr to the cause of freedom, says his grandnephew who has authored a new biography on Netaji Bose. "I have addressed the question of Netaji's death in the final chapter of my book. Historical evidence that...
12:10 PM, Jul 25, 2011
New Delhi: New Delhi seems to be bending backwards to explain why two iconic US Fighter aircraft have been left out of the Multi-Role Combat Aircraft Competition to supply fighter jets to India. However, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is expected to push for the fifth generation F-35 on her visit to India. There could be some American sour grapes over the elimination of two iconic American fighter aircraft...
07:56 AM, Jul 19, 2011
Kolkata: A new book on the life of Subhash Chandra Bose sheds light on the freedom fighter's life and times. His Majesty's opponent - Subhash Chandra Bose - the life of Netaji chronicled by his grand nephew Sugato Bose. A childhood replete with tales of Netaji's heroic adventures has helped this Harvard University professor and prominent historian recount India's prominent freedom fighter from close quarters. Professor Sugato Bose said, My...
10:44 PM, Jul 16, 2011
London: The pavement outside a tapas bar in London's Old Brompton Road is a far cry from a bullring in Spain. But that doesn't stop British writer, actor and amateur matador Alexander Fiske-Harrison from leaping to his feet mid-conversation and demonstrating a series of sweeping passes. "There is no winning. It's not a fight," he says of the bloody Spanish spectacle. "It's a tragic play in three acts". Fiske-Harrison, an...
05:03 PM, Jun 30, 2011
Rajahmundry: India proposes to buy 126 fighter jets worth over $10 billion to strengthen its airspace, Union Minister of State for Defence MM Pallam Raju said on Monday. Talking to reporters here in his home district East Godavari, he said the Defence Ministry has sanctioned over Rs 40,000 crore for the mega deal. The ministry had shortlisted the European Eurofighter and the French Dassault Rafale for the 126 Medium-Multirole Combat...
02:43 AM, Jun 28, 2011
New Delhi: US aerospace giant Lockheed Martin may re-enter the Indian Medium Multi-Role Combat Aircraft (MMRCA) race. The powerful Senate Armed Services Committee of the US is pushing the Defense Department to offer India the high-tech F-35 stealth fighter aircraft, the worlds only fifth generation multi-role fighter, built by Lockheed Martin. The move comes after Lockheed's F-16IN Super Viper and Boeing's F/A-18 Super Hornet were eliminated from the MMRCA race...
02:24 PM, Jun 21, 2011
New York: One person died and eight were wounded in a gun fight at a party in New York that was organized through social network Facebook, police said. Police said the gun fight began late at night in the house where the party was going on, and then continued into the streets in Brooklyn area. The party was announced on Facebook as Freaky Friday and guests were charged $5 as...
11:03 AM, Jun 20, 2011
Guatire: Thousands of National Guard troops stormed a Venezuelan prison on Friday seeking to disarm inmates days after a bloody riot, setting off gunfights with resisting inmates that left at least two soldiers dead and 18 wounded. Bursts of gunfire erupted inside the El Rodeo I prison while hundreds of inmates' relatives wept desperately outside, some of them shouting, "Help them!" Troops used tear gas and a water cannon to...
07:37 AM, Jun 18, 2011
New Delhi: A hardened drug dealer falls hard for a moody painter, a police officer fights his inner demons and the grisly killing of a 16-year-old by his friends. If you did not know what the super rich in Mumbai do in their own time, you will, after the release of experimental filmmaker Anurag Kashyap's dark thriller 'Shaitan'. The film that revolves around the lives of five Mumbai youngsters is...
12:04 AM, Jun 07, 2011
New Delhi: Are Anna Hazare and Baba Ramdev, both of whom have taken to fasting to protest against graft, leading the same agitation? Their protests have the common goals of bringing back the lakhs of crores of Rupees stashed in tax havens all around the world, of ensuring accountability of those who misuse power to accumulate personal wealth and of injecting an element of transparency into an otherwise translucent system....
12:45 PM, Jun 04, 2011
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For several months now, the media has squarely focused attention, and rightly so, on the travails of UPA-2 and its leadership. A series of scams ...
12:21 AM, Jun 03, 2011
Sanaa: Republican Guard shelling and pre-dawn street battles between government forces and rival tribal fighters killed at least 41 people in the capital on Wednesday. There were growing signs of disarray in beleaguered President Ali Abdullah Saleh's military. Fighting raged until 5 am, and witnesses said Presidential Guard units shelled the headquarters of an army brigade responsible for guarding sensitive government institutions. Army officers who have defected to the opposition...
05:13 PM, Jun 01, 2011
New Delhi: Rejecting Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's appeal to call off his fast, Yoga guru Baba Ramdev on Wednesday asked people to join him in the campaign against black money. Raising the decibel levels on the fight against corruption, Baba Ramdev said that he will go ahead with his protest fast. "The PM has appealed that I should not go ahead with my fast but I will start my fast...
08:26 AM, Jun 01, 2011
New Delhi: India and Germany called for reforms in the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) to reflect the changing world realities and power equations. Eyeing the $10.4 billion deal to supply 126 medium multi-role fighter aircraft (MMRCA) to India, German Chancellor Angela Merkel also tried to hard sell the Eurofighter Typhoon fighter jet, claiming that it was the best plane on offer. "With the Eurofighter we have made good proposals...
01:32 PM, May 31, 2011
Moscow: Indian naval aviation has acquired new teeth with induction of nine MiG-29K carrier-borne fighter jets from Russia with an extended range of 3,000 kms and capable of firing air-to-air and air-to-sea missiles. The Russian MiG Aircraft Corporation has delivered the second batch of five MiG-29K fighter jets to the navy, to add to its four, for which it has raised the new "Black Panthers" squadron. India along with Russia,...
12:45 PM, May 31, 2011
New Delhi: India and Germany will hold their first inter-governmental consultations at the cabinet-level on Tuesday. German Chancellor Angela Merkel will be in New Delhi for a day. Her main focus would be to make a strong push for the Eurofighter. Germany and France are both eyeing that coveted deal with Indian Air force (IAF). The Eurofighter built by Germany and three other European countries and the French Rafale are...
07:39 AM, May 31, 2011
New York: An Egyptian who was once a Special Forces officer has been chosen "caretaker" leader of al Qaeda in the wake of Osama bin Laden's death, according to a source with detailed knowledge of the group's inner workings. Al Qaeda's interim leader is Saif al-Adel, who has long played a prominent role in the group, according to Noman Benotman. Benotman has known the al Qaeda leadership for more than...
07:02 AM, May 18, 2011
9/11 attacks mastermind, Osama bin Laden was killed in Pakistan by US forces. ...
10:11 AM, May 02, 2011
