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David Cameron was long committed to spending 0.7% of GDP on overseas aid as a way of demonstrating in the early part of the decade that the Conservatives had changed, although the pledge was not always popular across the party. It is a target that has been hit every ...

Over the past 15 years, ties between India and the United States (US) have scaled new heights in almost every imaginable area. The annual bilateral trade in goods and services today is in the region of $150 billion. The two countries are now natural allies. And they conduct a ...

NEW DELHI: Numerous initiatives to promote domestic defence industry are not only aimed at making India self-reliant in production of military hardware and systems but also to progressively supply them to the entire world, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said on Thursday. In an address to top executives of leading ...

NEW DELHI: India is moving towards setting up its new Air Defence Command (ADC), which will eventually be responsible for guarding the country’s airspace against hostile aircraft, missiles, helicopters and drones in an integrated manner, by October this year. Sources say the headquarters of the ADC, which will bring ...

India09:31 GMT 21.08.2020Get short URLNew Delhi (Sputnik): Previously, India used Boeing 747 jets from the Air India fleet to fly VVIPs. These planes were occasionally also used to fly members of the general public. However, the new plane is exclusively meant for the highest dignitaries of the country.A wide-bodied ...

India’s move to ban the import of some weapon systems and military hardware to boost local manufacturing is being hindered by its push to procure as much as US$2 billion in equipment to increase its defence preparedness as it faces a border stand-off with China and volatile relations with ...

An Indian Air Force officer has been awarded the Shaurya Chakra approved by President Ram Nath KovindNew Delhi: On the eve of Independence Day, President Ram Nath Kovind approved gallantry awards for defence personnel, including Shaurya Chakra to three from the Army for counter-terrorist operations in Jammu and Kashmir, ...

To speed up testing as well as improve the accuracy of testing for coronavirus (COVID-19) positive cases, the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) is working on developing “mega labs” where large machines, called Next Generation Sequencing machines (NGS), which are also used for sequencing human genomes, will ...

Joe Biden named California Senator Kamala Harris as his running mate on August 11, making history by selecting the first Black woman to compete on a major party’s Presidential ticket and acknowledging the vital role Black voters will play in his bid to defeat President Donald Trump.A swift response from the fire ...

The final conversation between the air traffic controller (ATCO) and one of the pilots of the Air India Express flight 1344 that crashed last week in Kozhikode did not indicate any sign of danger, according to a senior official of the Ministry of Civil Aviation.The Centre will not allow ...