India has quake warning system for Himalayan region (Photo credit: AP) NEW DELHI: India, like any other country, does not have scientifically proven earthquake prediction technology, but it does have seismic monitoring networks and regional earthquake early warning (EEW) systems in the Himalayan region that can provide a few seconds of advance notice just after…
NEW DELHI: Amid easing of sanctions on Iran, India and Tehran on Thursday discussed enhanced cooperation in the hydrocarbon sector.Oil minister Hardeep Singh Puri met his Iranian counterpart Mohsen Paknejad days after the US-Iran MoU to end the West Asia conflict and amid the possibility of Iranian crude returning to the market following a 60-day…
JAMMU: A bridge washed away in a cloudburst that killed 65 people at Chishoti in Jammu & Kashmir’s Kishtwar district last Aug was restored by Border Roads Organisation in 12 days. Operationalisation of the 140ft triple double reinforced Bailey bridge restored road connectivity between Gulabgarh and the remote Machail region.Jammu-based defence PRO Col Sunil Bartwal…
SRINAGAR/JAMMU: The commanding officer of 17 Rashtriya Rifles and a Major were among 30-odd Army personnel named in an FIR Thursday, accusing them of storming a police station in J&K’s Kishtwar, assaulting policemen on duty and damaging govt property after a military vehicle was intercepted for allegedly obstructing the deputy commissioner’s convoy on a narrow…
Gulmarg’s gondola ride resumes after a month SRINAGAR: J&K CM Omar Abdullah Thursday re-opened Gulmarg’s popular gondola (cable car) ride that was closed on May 25 after a technical snag left more than 300 tourists stranded for nearly seven hours. Gulmarg’s gondola is among the world’s highest ropeways.Omar said operations were resumed after the manufacturer,…
Sanjay Dina Patil issued apology and expressed regret over the altercation with journalist NEW DELHI: Hours after hurling abuse at journalists, Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Dina Patil on Thursday issued an apology and expressed regret over the altercation.“Ever since I joined the Shiv Sena, I have been subjected to continuous humiliation. When journalist friends came…
NEW DELHI: The government has appointed senior IPS officer Mahesh Dixit as the next Director of the Intelligence Bureau (IB), the country’s domestic intelligence agency, PTI reported on Thursday.The current IB chief, Tapan Deka, was appointed to the post in June 2022 and has since received two one-year extensions, in June 2024 and June 2025.(Developing…
Netra AEW&C uses the Brazilian Embraer EMB-145 airframe as its platform and on which is mounted an active electronically scanned array (AESA) radar in its dorsal fin. NEW DELHI: The indigenously-developed Netra Airborne Early Warning and Control (AEW&C) system, which is India’s specialised “eye in the sky”, achieved a big milestone on Thursday when the…
NEW DELHI: “None of our MPs will split. Not a single one of our MLAs is going anywhere … ” Nationalist Congress Party (SP) chief Sharad Pawar’s confident, if not bold, assertion that his party remains united and will not tread the same path as Uddhav Thackeray’s Shiv Sena (UBT) or Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress.This…
NEW DELHI: Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Thursday accused Yogi Adityanath-led Uttar Pradesh government of “protecting big fish” after an FIR was registered against eight persons over the alleged embezzlement of donations at the Ram Temple in Ayodhya.In a social media post on X, Akhilesh alleged that all the evidence may have been cleaned…