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India's first women fighter pilots to be commissioned were Flying Officers Avani Chaturvedi, Bhawana Kanth and Mohana Singh. For the first time, each of them flew the MiG-21, an older fighter jet in air force solo from the Jamnagar air base. This was reported as a milestone achievement on the occasion of… Read More

A Congress MLA and former minister brought an unexploded grenade inside the Kerala assembly. The Kerala assembly was discussing brutal actions by the state police and how cops were suppressing people's protests in a brutal manner and even throwing grenades at people, even if these are expired. This is when the MLA member displayed… Read More

China's defence budget is about Rs. 12,00,000 crores or 3 times India's annual budget according to reports, and just under a third of USA's budget and it continues to grow fast. Some analysts say this budget leaves out some expenses like the new aircraft carriers and jet fighters being build. It might… Read More

Election results in critical India's north-eastern states threw some major surprise and shocks unlike ever before. CPM, the communist party ruling Tripura lost heavily to the alliance of the BJP and Indigenous Tribal party alliance - ending a 20 year rule. BJP which had never won a single seast got… Read More

Sri Jayendra Saraswathi, Shankaracharya of the Kanchi mutt in Tamil Nadu passed away. The Kanchi mutt which was one of the many mutts established by Sri Adi Shankaracharya in the 8th century. His immense contributions to south India in protecting and reviving Hinduism will be remembered for the decades to… Read More

In another Indian foreign policy win, Pakistan has been put on the global terror finance watch list. However after heavy push back from its supporting countries - Saudi Arabia and the GCC, China and Turkey, this action was delayed to start in June. The significance of this move is several -… Read More

Florida (USA) had school shooting rampage with many children and staff shot dead. During the shooting reportedly some school security failed or allegedly did not come to the rescue and it does takes nearly 10 minutes for police and swat teams to arrive. Just as the shots were being heard, expecting the worst, Ms. Shanthi Viswanathan,… Read More

UP Chief Minister Shri Yogi Adityanath ji is coming under so much pressure to stop the Police action - or what media and opposition call "Police Encounters". Criminals and their political sympathiers are feeling so much heat, why because of the such results to date according to some sources: * Over 1,200 police… Read More

India witnessed a moment of sheer amazement. Shri Janardan Mishra, BJP leader and Madhya Pradhesh minister as part of a routine school inspection found a toilet in a school in his Rewa district clogged learnt that children could not use it or shower. Instead of shouting instructions, he immediately got down on… Read More

Our media makes fun when we say "love-jihad" or when Hindu girls (or Sikh or Christian girls) when they elope or get tricked and elope Muslim boys, then get forced to convert to Islam. If it is natural love and if it goes both ways meaning woman is either Muslim or of another… Read More

Cyclone Gita with wind speeds of over 230km/hour and the eye of the cyclone of over 100 kilometers inflicted major damage to the Kingdom of Tonga in the South Pacific - not seen in over 60 years. The Kingdom of Tonga is a country of 176 islands with only 40 inhabited, is near… Read More

India recently imposed a record fine of Rs. 136 crore on Google for discriminatory search which was only a real small hit to Google. But the issue is much bigger for India and every other country (with the exception of USA as these companies are based there) who face serious threats from… Read More

Over 120 crore people are enrolled in Aadhaar and India is adding one the size of Singapore each week to Aadhaar. Advanced countries and mostly smaller ones have it like social security numbers, and given India's size, it should provide much greater benefits. So what are these:  for businesses it… Read More

In remarkable candid comments, the chairman of the UP Shia Waqf board has said that Muslims who oppose the Ram Janmabhoomi temple should go to Pakistan or Bangladesh or join ISIS, and fundamentalist clerics are trying to destroy the country and they should migrate to Pak. And secular Muslims have never been against building the… Read More

Of the 38 lakh students registered for 10th standard board exam and 28 lakh students registered for the 12th standard board exams, over 5 lakh students were no shows - a number higher than past years. The UP government is trying to crack down on mafia that has been involved in… Read More