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With military expenditure worth $83.6 billion in 2023, India was the fourth largest spender globally in 2023, the latest report by Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) states. This was a result of growing personnel and operations costs that comprised about 80 per cent of the total military budget, ...

At a time when extreme weather events such as long heat waves and extreme rainfall events are regular occurrences, the role of the India Meteorological Department (IMD) is becoming increasingly crucial. In its 150th year now, the scientific agency is facing challenges in the form of erratic weather events ...

In 2014, as part of the Saansad Adarsh Gram Yojana (SAGY) flagged off by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Delhi’s seven MPs — all from the ruling BJP — picked a village each under their constituency and were tasked with ensuring its development: proper roads, water supply or sanitation among ...

Union minister and BJP leader Giriraj Singh is again contesting from his Begusarai Lok Sabha constituency, which will go to polls in the fourth phase on May 13. Giriraj, who had trounced the then CPI’s nominee Kanhaiya Kumar in the 2019 polls, is now taking on the CPI’s INDIA ...

Maharashtra is a critical piece of the election puzzle this time — since the last Lok Sabha election of 2019, the traditional “communal vs secular” battlelines have been rearranged beyond recognition, after Shiv Sena and NCP splintered, and both government and Opposition were reconstituted. On the Opposition side, an ...

National Conference (NC) vice-president Omar Abdullah kicked off his party’s election campaign in South Kashmir on Thursday – the day on which the NC candidate for the Anantnag-Rajouri Lok Sabha constituency, Mian Altaf Larhvi, and their main rival, People’s Democratic Party (PDP) president Mehbooba Mufti, filed their nomination papers. ...

IN BOTH 2014 and 2019, the BJP-led NDA made a clean sweep of all the 25 Lok Sabha seats in Rajasthan. As 12 seats go to polls in the first phase on Friday, the Congress hopes to break that trend this time.The Congress is relying on anger among Jats, ...

The EC has simplified the voting process for Kashmiri migrants living in Jammu and Udhampur, who will no longer have to fill out an additional ‘Form M’, the EC announced Friday. For those Kashmiri migrants living outside of Jammu and Udhampur, the ‘Form M’ is still mandatory but would ...

INVOKING PAKISTAN while campaigning for the BJP in Rampur and Amroha Lok Sabha constituencies, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Tuesday said the “enemy” is scared of new India now. Adityanath said that in the past, Pakistan used to engineer explosions in India but now if even a firecracker is ...

Days after the Ministry of External Affairs said they have rescued 250 Indians from Cambodia, the Ministry of Home Affairs is planning to file a complaint with the CBI asking the agency to take legal action against recruitment agents, The Indian Express has learnt. As reported by The Indian ...