Women were inducted only in the Armed Forces Medical Service till the year 1992. From July 1992, the Navy started inducting women as Short Service Commissioned Officers in select branches of the Navy. Presently the women are inducted into the following branches/cadres/specialisations of the Navy as Officers:- ATC Observer Law […]

Informal summits are becoming the norm in bilateral relations. Prime Minister Narendra Modi travelled to Sochi on Monday for an informal summit with Russian president Vladimir Putin. For Modi, it was a second informal summit after the recent one with Chinese president Xi Jinping in Wuhan, while Putin has already […]

After a whistle-stop tour of Kashmir on Saturday, Narendra Modi arrived in Russia on Monday morning with a Sochi meeting with Vladimir Putin as the high point of the brief visit’s agenda. Modi  tweeted before taking off that the visit would seek to “further strengthen the Special and Privileged Strategic Partnership […]

The Indian duo of G Sathiyan and Sanil Shetty finished its campaign at the Thailand Open table tennisevent with a silver in the men’s doubles on Sunday.Sathiyan and Sanil sailed through the opening rounds, first beating Japan 3-1 and then Malaysia 3-0 to storm into the semifinals. They faced another Indian pair, represented by Harmeet […]

BHOPAL: Petrol and diesel dealers, especially in the bordering districts of Madhya Pradesh are feeling the pinch as sales are down up to 70% due to higher tax and price on fuel in MP. Taking advantage of the high prices of petrol and diesel in MP, petrol pump owners in […]

Ousted Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif appeared to admit that Pakistani terrorists carried out the 2008 Mumbai attacks, known as 26/11, and suggest that such terror strikes could have been prevented. In an interview to the Dawn newspaper published on Saturday, Mr Sharif also lamented that Pakistan had isolated itself. He indicated […]