New Delhi: In a major diplomatic triumph for India, eight veterans of the Indian Navy who were sentenced to death in Qatar, were released by Doha on Monday.The capital punishment was commuted to an extended prison term earlier following diplomatic intervention by New Delhi.Amid desperate pleas by the anxious kin of the Navy veterans to secure their release and safe passage back to their homeland,

New Delhi: Former Indian Navy personnel who landed at the Delhi airport on Monday morning raised chants of "Bharat Mata ki Jai" and lauded Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s personal intervention in their case following their release from a Qatar court after months of detention in the Gulf country.The Ministry of External Affairs announced early Monday morning the release of the Indian nationals who

Lahore: No stranger to controversy, veteran Congress leader and former Union Minister, Mani Shankar Aiyar, on Sunday triggered a fresh row after coming out in praise of Pakistani people and terming them as the ‘biggest asset of India’, Dawn reported.According to the Pakistan daily, Aiyar, while addressing an event in Lahore, said, "The Pakistanis, from my experience, have been the people who

New Delhi: Setting foot to their homeland after several agonising months of captivity in Qatar, seven of the eight Indian navy veterans who were sentenced to death on ‘espionage’ charges, heaped praise on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, saying they wouldn’t have been freed had it for the sustained diplomatic efforts at his behest to secure their release.Their death sentence was later commuted to an

Army Chief General Manoj Pande embarks on a significant visit to the United States, aiming to strengthen bilateral strategic ties and enhance military cooperation in the Indo-Pacific. Scheduled talks with US Army Chief General Randy George will cover military transformation, collaborative production initiatives, and addressing regional security concerns, notably China’s assertiveness. Discussions

The most promising landing site, along with a proposed path for the rover. The PSR here stands for permanently shadowed regionResearchers have narrowed down on potential landing sites for the LUPEX mission, close to the Shackleton crater at the south pole of the Moon. The landing zones were evaluated based on amount of sunlight available, local topology, roughness of terrain, and potential