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The aircraft came in low from the left, over the point where the Varuna meets the Ganga, turned above the water in front of the crowd and went out to the right towards the bridge and the spires of the Kashi Vishwanath temple Image Via:@myogiadityanath on X The Indian Air Force marked its 94th anniversary with a display at Namo Ghat in Varanasi, the city Prime Minister Narendra Modi represents in parliament. He watched from the main gallery with Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, the state governor Anandiben Patel and the chief minister Yogi Adityanath. The air chief presented him with a memento before the flying began. मां गंगा की लहरें, नमो घाट का अद्भुत नज़ारा और आसमान में भारतीय वायुसेना के विमानों की रोमांचक उड़ानें! काशी का वातावरण विशेष आकर्षण का केंद्र बना ! @narendramodi जी #VaranasiAirShow #WingsOverGanga #IndianAirForce #NamoGhat #Kashi #PMModi #narendramodi https://t.co/h9OtkLwVmF — जितेन्द्र मेहरा (@Jitendramehra93) October 25, 2026 Around a hundred aircraft took part, ...

India’s Narcotics Control Bureau sent 38 teams into 38 locations across three northeastern states in simultaneous raids aimed at the finances of a drug syndicate run from Myanmar, arresting 18 people and freezing 1,424 bank accounts File Photo Source: @AmitShah The raids were carried out in the early hours of 23 October by the bureau alongside Mizoram police and the Enforcement Directorate, the agency that investigates financial crime. Teams searched sites in Aizawl and Champhai in Mizoram, including Zokhawthar on the Myanmar border, as well as Churachandpur in Manipur and the Cachar corridor in Assam. Property worth 178 million rupees was attached. Officers seized 1.2 million rupees in cash and 500 detonators. The ministry listed no narcotics among the recoveries. Modi Govt deals another lethal blow against drugs with Operation Trident. Our agencies launched a barrage of simultaneous crackdowns across 38 locations in Assam, Mizoram and Manipur on 23 October, smashing an internati...

Smog settled over Bandra Kurla Complex on Saturday morning and the city’s municipal corporation spent the day setting out, at length, how much better Mumbai’s air has become Image Source: @iam_Jinesh on X Mumbai has recorded 231 days in the good or satisfactory air quality categories so far this year, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation said, against 218 in all of 2025, 216 in 2024 and 185 in 2023. PM10, the coarser airborne dust, is down by about 48 per cent since 2017-18, according to the environment ministry’s monitoring portal. It listed the machinery behind this. Twenty-eight guidelines for construction sites and seventy-six ward squads to enforce them, each required to inspect two sites a day. Compulsory sensor monitors at building sites, 3,166 of them wired to a central dashboard. Twenty-nine road sweepers. Covered debris lorries with washed wheels, tracked through a dedicated system. Cleaner fuel at 384 of the city’s 593 bakeries, which it calculates produce 3.5 per cent...

A weather system over the Bay of Bengal is expected to strengthen into a cyclone and come ashore on the morning of 28 October between the northern Andhra Pradesh and southern Odisha coasts, India’s weather office said on Saturday, as Odisha placed all of its districts on alert Representational Image Source: @PlaysSaheb on X The India Meteorological Department said the low-pressure area would deepen through the weekend, becoming a deep depression on Sunday and a cyclonic storm over the west-central Bay of Bengal by Monday morning before moving west-northwest towards the coast. Mrutyunjay Mohapatra, the department’s director general, gave the expected landfall window. If it reaches cyclone strength the storm will be named Arnab, a name contributed by Bangladesh. Odisha’s disaster management minister, Suresh Pujari, said the state was working to a target of no deaths. Collectors in sixteen coastal and southern districts have been told to take precautions and may close schools and co...

India’s foreign ministry said on Friday that conditions along its frontier with China are disrupted from time to time when Chinese forces depart from established patrolling patterns, after the head of the border police said confrontations with Chinese troops were continuing in Arunachal Pradesh File Photo Via: @ITBP_official on X Asked about those remarks, the ministry spokesman, Randhir Jaiswal, referred questions to the defence ministry but said the situation in the border areas was periodically disturbed when Chinese forces diverged from agreed patterns. Both countries continued to use diplomatic and military channels to settle outstanding issues and avoid misunderstanding along the Line of Actual Control, he said, and had agreed to discuss ways to improve a shared understanding of the line in some areas. Earlier, Shatrujeet Kapur, director general of the Indo-Tibetan Border Police, told personnel at a base in Alwar, Rajasthan, on Thursday that face-offs had occurred at severa...

India’s defence minister released a new Land Warfare Doctrine for the army on Friday and told its senior commanders to plan on a horizon of twenty to thirty years while remaining ready for immediate threats Image Source: @rajnathsingh on X Rajnath Singh, addressing the Army Commanders’ Conference in the capital, said the doctrine provided an overarching framework for preparing the force for the changing character of warfare and for future conflicts. He told commanders to watch geopolitical and regional developments closely and to keep strategy flexible enough to adjust as circumstances changed. He returned to Operation Sindoor, the military action India conducted against targets in Pakistan in May 2025, saying its success rested on innovative thinking, greater synergy and coordination, supported by advanced weaponry. The operation had made clear that India would not hesitate to act to protect its interests, he said. Singh praised the army’s restructuring and its use of drones, a...

A magnitude 7.0 earthquake killed at least 16 people and injured 65 in Tibet, bringing down hundreds of houses in a remote stretch of high plateau and forcing more than 12,000 people out of their homes Image Source: @PulseOrbit on X The quake struck Baqen county, in Nagqu city in the Tibet Autonomous Region, at 10.33pm local time (1433 GMT), with its epicentre in a mountainous area about 190 kilometres from Nagqu and 390 kilometres northeast of Lhasa. The US Geological Survey put its depth at 18 kilometres. Eleven of the injured were in a serious condition. At least 339 homes and 20 livestock sheds collapsed, the Nagqu city media office said, with the full extent of the damage still being assessed. Rockfalls forced the closure of a section of National Highway 317 to all but emergency traffic. Power and telephone services failed in the county town. More than 1,600 people were deployed on rescue work, along with over 300 police officers sent to the epicentre to check damaged build...

The Speaker of India’s lower house said on Thursday that any fresh motion seeking the removal of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar would be examined under parliamentary rules, as the opposition prepares a third attempt to unseat him Image Via: @ombirlakota on X “If any fresh notice comes, we will see and examine it accordingly under rules and procedures,” Om Birla told reporters while responding to questions at a press conference. He said the process resembled that for removing a Supreme Court judge, and that in a democracy everyone had the right to express their views. Opposition parties have demanded Kumar’s resignation over the Election Commission’s nationwide revision of electoral rolls, in protests that have run through October. The campaign followed a report in The Indian Express that the two other election commissioners, Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Vivek Joshi, had recorded objections at least fourteen times in ten months to decisions and orders connected with the rev...

India and Poland set a target of doubling bilateral trade by 2030 and agreed to establish a defence industry dialogue, as Prime Minister Donald Tusk ended three days of talks in India accompanied by around a hundred Polish chief executives Image Source: PIB The two sides also agreed to open a dialogue on counter-terrorism, and India welcomed Poland’s decision to join the Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure, an Indian-led body on infrastructure and climate risk. The relationship was raised to a strategic partnership during Modi’s visit to Warsaw in August 2024, when the two adopted an action plan running to 2028. Foreign ministers reviewed it in Warsaw in September. Much of the economic discussion turned on the free trade agreement concluded between India and the European Union, which has not yet been signed or ratified. Both leaders called for that to happen early and for the agreement to be implemented on time. Modi said it would open Polish markets to Indian machinery, ...