New Delhi, Oct 3 : The Union Cabinet today gave its approval to notify interim enhancement of the rates of wages at the rate of 30 per cent of basic wage for the working journalists and other newsp

New Delhi, Oct 3 : The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) today gave its approval for implementation of Scheme “Upgradation of the remaining 1096 Government Industrial Training Institutes

New Delhi, Oct 3 : The Chief of Air Staff, Air Chief Marshal Fali H Major, on Friday said the Armed Forces have not breached any discipline by publicly airing their grievances over the anomalies in the Sixth Pay Commission report.

“I as the Air Force Chief and other two chiefs have gone through the sixth Central Pay Commission report and put forward the issues which we wanted the government to redress,” Air Chief Marshal Major told reporters ahead of the 76th anniversary celebrations of the founding of the IAF.

New Delhi - India is to have its first female saint when Pope Benedict XVI canonizes Sister Alphonsa October 12 at the Vatican, media reports said Friday.

As preparations were under way to elevate the nun 62 years after her death, hundreds of Christian devotees from her home state of Kerala in southern India were on their way to the Vatican to attend the ceremony, the NDTV network reported.

"It is a matter of great joy for the Indian Christian community that one of its believers is being canonized," Father Dominic Emmanuel, spokesman for the New Delhi archdiocese, told the Times of India.

New Delhi, Oct 02 : Air Marshal S. Radhakrishnan took over as the Air Officer Commanding–in-Chief, Southern Air Command of IAF on Oct 01.

An alumnus of the National Defence Academy, he has flown over 4000 hours on a variety of combat and trainer aircraft. He is a Qualified Flying Instructor and a Fighter Combat Leader. He was commissioned into the fighter stream of the Indian Air Force in June 1970.