Responding to a question in Lok Sabha, Minister of State for Defence Ajay Bhatt also said 9,119 posts of sailors are lying vacant in the Navy as on October 31. He said the shortage in the officer-rank is 1,777.The Indian Navy is reeling under a shortage of 10,896 personnel including 1,777 officers, according to details provided by the defence ministry in Parliament on Friday.Responding to a

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi continues to be at the top among world leaders with an approval rating of 76 per cent, according to a survey by Morning Consult.According to the US-based consultancy firm’s ‘Global Leader Approval Rating Tracker’ 76 per cent of people in India approve of PM Modi’s leadership, while 18 per cent disapprove of it and six per cent did not give any

India has exported PINAKA MBRL to Armenia, PM Modi seen with Armenian PM Nikol Pashinyan Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev vented out his anger against India and France for supplying weapons to Armenia, accusing them of fuelling tensions in the Nagorno-Karabakh region.Aliyev warned that such weapons deliveries could "trigger a new war in the region", adding that he had "already given

Shillong: The Indian Air Force’s C-130J ‘Super Hercules’ aircraft has carried out a precision airdrop of combat troops as well as specialised warfighting equipment in the North Eastern sector during the Indo-US joint military exercise ‘Vajra Prahar’.The 14th edition of the Indo-US Joint Special Forces exercise, ‘Vajra Prahar 2023’, commenced at the Joint Training Node, Umroi on November 21, the

New Delhi: Sweden’s Ambassador to India, Jan Thesleff, said that India and Sweden want to work together to do things that are "smarter and more sustainable." He noted that the bond between India and Sweden dates back to independence.In his address at the celebration of 75 years of diplomatic relations between Sweden and India, Thesleff recalled the meeting between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and

New Delhi: Swedish astronaut Christer Fuglesang has called Chandrayaan-3’s success "amazing and outstanding." He said that he is looking forward to the next Indian mission like that.In an interview with ANI, Fuglesang said that he is expecting to see the Gaganyaan flight with Indian astronauts on the Indian rocket and Indian capsule.On being asked about the Chandrayaan-3 success, he said, "The