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NEW DELHI: A high-level committee on demographic changes, constituted recently under Justice (retd) Prakash Prabhakar Naolekar, will visit metropolitan areas and industrial towns, apart from border areas, as part of its assignment to examine the nature, causes and impact of demographic changes across the country, including due to illegal immigration. It will recommend policy, administrative...

GUWAHATI/NEW DELHI: An Indian Air Force (IAF) An-32 transport aircraft crashed while landing at Rowriah airbase in Assam’s Jorhat on Saturday, killing five personnel on board.The co-pilot miraculously survived the crash and is undergoing treatment, a source told TOI. The IAF has begun a detailed probe into the cause of the tragedy. “The Indian Air...

Flight Cadet Minakshi Kumari with family NEW DELHI: The story of Flight Cadet Minakshi Kumari, one of the five National Defence Academy (NDA) entrants of the first women batch that passed out as IAF officers from the Dundigal-based Air Force Academy on Saturday, began in Haryana’s Charkhi Dadri.Born in a family with a defence background,...

India joins elite group of nations with BMD capability NEW DELHI: India has successfully conducted three consecutive flight-tests on June 10 and 11 (Wednesday and Thursday) to demonstrate its multi-layered ballistic missile defence system (BMD) capability to intercept long and medium-range missiles.The tests have put the country in the elite group of nations having BMD...

Rajnath says growing presence of Nari Shakti will strengthen air force NEW DELHI: The first batch of five women National Defence Academy (NDA) entrants were among 231 flight cadets who were commissioned as officers in the Indian Air Force (IAF) following their graduation from Dundigal-based Air Force Academy in Telangana’s Hyderabad on Saturday.The 231 cadets...

Ayodhya Ram Temple donations under SIT investigation now LUCKNOW: Acting on the direction of chief minister Yogi Adityanath, the Uttar Pradesh govt on Saturday constituted a three-member Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe the allegations of embezzlement of donations at the Ram Temple in Ayodhya.The move follows a formal request by the Shri Ram Janmabhoomi...

The Jama Masjid in Bharuch SURAT/BHARUCH: Bharuch police and the district administration have stepped up security measures and intensified monitoring across the town after the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) expressed apprehension that a proposed gathering of nearly 5,000 people on June 15 over the upkeep of Jain and Hindu idols inside the protected Jama...

Representative image SRINAGAR: A 19-year-old man from Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) was apprehended in Karnah sector of Kashmir’s Kupwara district on Friday soon after he crossed the heavily guarded LoC.“Acting on specific intelligence inputs, a joint team of Army and J&K police intercepted the individual near Simri village in Kupwara and prevented any potential security breach,”...

7 Indians held in crackdown on illegal work at UK parcel depots LONDON: Seven Indian nationals working for international parcel delivery company DPD in the UK are among nine suspected illegal workers arrested by immigration enforcement officers at multiple parcel delivery depots.Immigration enforcement officers raided DPD depots in Basingstoke, Hampshire and Newbury, Berkshire early Thursday...

Representative image LONDON: An Indian man living in the UK has been jailed for 34 years for kidnapping, raping, torturing and beating up a woman after she refused to carry a suitcase of “unknown items” from Thailand to the UK.Gagandeep Singh (34), an Indian citizen living in Wandsworth, southwest London, was on Friday jailed on...