Senior Congress leader Shobha Oza was inspired by the personality of late prime minister Indira Gandhi from an early age, which led her to choose politics as her calling in life.
India just witnessed its worst aviation disaster in recent times. Shortly after takeoff, Air India Flight 171 crashed into the hostel block of a medical college in the Meghani Nagar neighbourhood of Ahmedabad in Gujarat on June 12.
The country has a failed defence and foreign policy and is floundering here and there like a beggar,'' he said in an interview with The Statesman.
India Meteorological Department (IMD) Director General Mrutyunjay Mohapatra has been elected the third vice president of the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO).
General Ved Prakash Malik was the Army Chief from 1997 to 2000. He was commissioned into the 3rd Sikh Light Infantry in 1959. He is known for overseeing the planning and execution of Operation Vijay during the Kargil War.
While in college, Upadhyay joined the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) and contested the DUSU elections as an ABVP candidate.
The battleground for Simranjit Singh Mann which won him the Sangrur Lok Sabha seat was prepared by his maternal grandson, 24-year-old Govind Singh Sandhu, a Delhi University history graduate.
The Speaker of the 17th Lok Sabha, Om Birla, is a man in touch with his roots. He completed three years of his tenure as the speaker on June 19.
Prime Minister Naftali Bennett believes in the strong strategic alliance between India and Israel, as a significant partnership benefiting both countries. The close relationship between our two nations is very apparent, both on the leadership and the popular level.
In an interview with Anjali Bhatia, Rakesh Asthana, a 1984 batch IPS officer of Gujarat cadre, serving as the Commissioner of Delhi Police dwelt at length on his new assignment.
