To commemorate the successful completion of the rigorous training program for Air Force Special Forces operatives of the elite ‘Garud’ force, a Maroon Beret Ceremonial Parade was conducted today at the Garud Regimental Training Centre.
Kerala government has strongly protested against the Central government over the Indian Air Force’s (IAF) renewed demand that the state recompensate the outstanding Rs.132 crore airway bill incurred by the Ministry of Defence during disaster-related humanitarian operations since 2019.
A day after her husband, an Air Force officer, allegedly committed suicide, Captain Renu Tanwar also took her own life while staying at an Army guest room in Delhi Cantonment.
Even as the Opposition is targeting Chief Minister MK Stalin over the death of five persons at the Indian Air Force (IAF) airshow at the Marina seafront here, the Viduthalai Chiruthaigl Katchi (VCK) and the CPI(M), key alliance partners of the ruling DMK on Monday demanded a high-level inquiry into the tragedy.
This drew opposition ire with the AIADMK and the BJP targeting Chief Minister MK Stalin for mismanagement.
Anticipating the enormity of the situation in Ukraine as around 14,000 Indian nationals are still in the war-torn country, the government officials said that the IAF is ready with an evacuation plan.
IAF helicopters have been pressed into service to trace these persons who went missing somewhere around the Margan Top, a high mountain pass, during heavy snowfall on Tuesday and Wednesday.
The IAF's Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) Tejas will participate in the exercise along with fighter aircraft of UK and other leading air forces.
Retired Major General Biddanda Aiyappa Nanjappa, Convener of Field Marshal Cariappa and General Thimmaiah Forum, speaking to IANS recalled that Late CDS Rawat had great respect for Field Marshal K.M. Cariappa and General Thimmaiah.
According to the sources, the Flight Data Recorder and the Cockpit Voice Recorder of the chopper have been recovered from the site.
