Samik Bhattacharya, a 61-year-old Rajya Sabha member and chief spokesperson of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)’s West Bengal unit, emerged as the sole contender for the post of state president on Wednesday as nobody else filed nominations during the organisational election process paving way for the veteran leader, senior party functionaries said.
In light of the recent conflicts in the Middle East, India’s Defence Research and Development Organisation (or DRDO) is now modifying the Agni 5 missile. The original Agni 5 is a nuclear-capable missile with a range exceeding 5,000 km, is being reconfigured into two new variants.
1989 batch IPS officer from the Punjab cadre, Parag Jain, has been appointed the new chief of the Research and Analysis Wing India’s external intelligence agency.
The Election Commission has made it mandatory for new and existing voters to submit a self-attested declaration that they are Indian citizens, whether by birth or by naturalization, and furnish documentary proof of date and place of birth along with that of their parents, officials said on Wednesday, as a political controversy broke out over the EC’s decision to conduct a special intensive revision of the electoral rolls to weed out illegal immigrants ahead of the Bihar polls.
A prep call meeting for all EAMs of the QUAD Nations is about to be held on the 1st of July in Washington DC. The QUAD or the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue is a strategic partnership between four countries— India, US, Japan, and Australia. The QUAD aims to promote a free and open Indo- Pacific region and curb China’s growing influence.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi marked the 50th anniversary of the Emergency with a scathing attack on Congress on Wednesday, saying that no Indian will ever forget the manner in which the spirit of the Constitution was violated during that period.
India and Pakistan have extended their mutual airspace bans for each other’s airlines until July. The closure was imposed following the Pahalgam terror attack that killed 26 people. The airspace bans are a defining part of the broader diplomatic standoff.
The escalation in the Israel-Iran conflict and Tehran’s threat to close the Strait of Hormuz are likely to push Indian refiners to further ramp up oil purchases from non-West Asian suppliers — mainly Russia, West Africa, the US and Latin America — as shipping routes to Indian ports from these suppliers are detached from the critical choke point in the Persian Gulf, according to industry sources and experts.
