Mangaluru: Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman Tuesday morning visited the Sri Krishna mutt in Udupi and offered prayers to the presiding deity of the temple. She was accompanied by BJP candidate for Udupi-Chikkamagaluru Lok Sabha seat Shobha Karandlaje, Udupi MLA K Raghupati Bhat and other party leaders. Palimaru mutt chief Paryaya Swami Vidyadeesha Teertha, handed over […]

New Delhi: The government said it was aware of reports on expansion of Pakistan’s capability for production of fissile material for nuclear weapons and asserted that it was committed to take all necessary steps to respond to any threat “suitably”. Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, replying to a question in Lok Sabha on Wednesday, said the […]

Jodhpur: Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman today took off in the IAF s frontline combat jet Sukhoi 30 MKI from the air base here. The country’s first woman defence minister sat in the rear seat behind the pilot and was wearing the pilot s G-suit. The sortie is likely to last for 30 minutes, defence sources […]

Mangaluru : The Kasturba Medical College Hospital, Mangaluru, will open a new block equipped with state-of-the-art multi-disciplinary facility to cater to all ailments near Jyothi (Dr. B.R. Ambedkar) Circle in Mangaluru on Sunday. Unit head of KMC, Mangaluru, Sagir Siddiqui told reporters here that Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar is expected to inaugurate the new facility […]

New Delhi:  Defence  Minister Manohar Parrikar on Wednesday admitted that “something must have been wrong” because of which the Uri terror attack took place, and added that if required India is capable of “knee jerk reaction”. The minister, however, did not speak about the nature of reaction and added that the government and Prime Minister […]