Tag: Indian Air Force

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300 cars gutted in fire near Bengaluru air show

Bengaluru: A fire in the parking lot in front of the Yelahanka air base in Bengaluru, where the Aero India show is underway, gutted about 300 cars on Saturday, police said. No casualties were reported. “The blaze is likely to have been caused due to dry grass catching fire aided by high velocity winds,” Director […]

  • Monday, 03 May 2021
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Rajnath Singh holds high-level meeting on security, border management

New Delhi: Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Wednesday chaired a high-level meeting here to discuss internal security, border management and an early morning air strike by the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) on Indian military installations, a day after the Indian Air Force (IAF) bombed terror outfit Jaish-e-Mohammed’s (JeM) biggest training camp at Balakot in […]

  • Monday, 03 May 2021
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IAF pilot Abhinandan Varthaman to be released by Pakistan today

Attari (Punjab): Scores of people assembled at the Attari Joint Check Post (JCP) here on Friday to receive Indian Air Force (IAF) pilot Abhinandan Varthaman who is likely to be released by Pakistani authorities later in the day. People started arriving in Attari, around 30 km from Sikh holy city of Amritsar, since 6 a.m. […]

  • Monday, 03 May 2021
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We didn't lose any Su-30 jet; Pakistan's claims false: Defence Ministry

New Delhi: India did not lose any Su-30 fighter jet during a dogfight with Pakistani jets on February 27, the government said here on Tuesday and added Pakistan was making “false claims” to hide the loss of a F-16 aircraft. “All the Su-30 aircraft engaged in combat with Pakistani fighter jets landed back safely. Pakistan […]

  • Monday, 03 May 2021
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MiG-21 crashes in Rajasthan, pilot safe

Jaipur: A MiG-21 fighter aircraft of the Indian Air Force (IAF) crashed near Bikaner in Rajasthan on Friday. The pilot ejected safely, the Defence Ministry said. An IAF spokesperson said the MiG was on a routine mission and it crashed after getting airborne from Nal, near Bikaner. Ghosh said initial inputs indicated a bird hit […]

  • Monday, 03 May 2021
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Balakot air strikes: US-based activist from Gilgit claims death of more than 200 JeM militants

New Delhi: A United States-based activist from Gilgit has claimed that more than 200 militants of the Jaish-e-Mohammed terror group were killed in Indian Air Force air strikes in the Balakot region of Pakistan on February 26, while citing reports of the local Urdu media in the neighbouring country. According to an ANI report which […]

  • Monday, 03 May 2021
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Rahul should apologise for Pitroda's remarks: Shah

New Delhi: BJP chief Amit Shah on Saturday said that Congress President Rahul Gandhi should apologise for his chief advisor Sam Pitroda’s statement on the February 14 Pulwama attack. “I demand from the Congress President that he must apologise to the families of the slain troopers,” Shah told the media here. Shah’s statement came in […]

  • Monday, 03 May 2021
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IAF jets scramble to push back PAF fighters

New Delhi: The Indian Air Force (IAF) scrambled fighter jets on Monday morning after four Pakistan Air Force (PAF) jets and a UAV were spotted flying close to the Punjab border. Around 3 a.m., the IAF Su-30 MKIs and Mirage-2000s went airborne after the flying activities were detected across the border in the Khemkaran sector, […]

  • Sunday, 02 May 2021
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IAF says it's holding back more evidence of F-16 kill

New Delhi: The Indian Air Force (IAF) said on Monday it has more credible information and evidence to prove that Pakistan Air Force (PAF) had lost an F-16 in air battle over Line of Control (LoC) on February 27 apart from electronic intercepts, radio transcripts and sightings from ground posts but was withholding them due […]

  • Sunday, 02 May 2021
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India now virtually terror free: Modi

Nashik (Maharashtra): Citing the example of the Easter Sunday bombings in Sri Lanka that killed nearly 300 people, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday claimed that India is now virtually “terror-free” barring some pockets of Jammu and Kashmir. Addressing an election rally at Pimpalgaon in Nashik district, Modi said: “Scores were killed in Sri Lanka […]

  • Saturday, 01 May 2021
Company head's digital compilation of poems on Abhinandan

Thiruvananthapuram: A digital version of literary works on Indian Air Force (IAF) Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman compiled by the UAE-based Industrialist and Aries Group Chairman Sohan Roy was released here on Friday. The digital volume includes 25 poems composed in the various south Indian languages, English and Hindi. “When companies take the responsibility of the digital […]

  • Saturday, 01 May 2021
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170 JeM terrorists killed in Balakot strike: Italian journalist

New Delhi: The airstrike by the Indian Air Force at the terror training camp at Pakistan’s Balakot on February 26 killed between 130 to 170 JeM terrorists, according to an Italian freelance journalist. Quoting local sources, Francesca Marino wrote on Stringerasia that after the IAF strike at around 3.30 a.m., a Pakistan Army unit arrived […]

  • Saturday, 01 May 2021
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IAF intercepts Georgian aircraft coming from Pakistan

New Delhi: An An-12 aircraft of Georgia was intercepted by the Indian Air Force after it entered Indian air space from Pakistan, deviating from its flight path, official sources said. The aircraft was forced to land at Jaipur airfield by air defence aircraft of the IAF, they said. The An-12 aircraft of Georgia, after getting […]

  • Saturday, 01 May 2021
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IAF gets first Apache Guardian attack helicopter

New Delhi: US aerospace major Boeing has handed over first of the 22 Apache Guardian attack helicopters to the Indian Air Force, nearly three-and-half years after a multi-billion dollar deal for the choppers was sealed. Senior IAF officials said the addition of AH-64E (I) Apache helicopter is a significant step towards modernisation of the force’s […]

  • Saturday, 01 May 2021
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Many hate me because I speak the truth: Aiyar

New Delhi:  Congress leader Mani Shankar Aiyar, who on Monday said he stands by his ‘neech aadmi’ jibe against Prime Minister Narendra Modi and termed it “prophetic”, on Tuesday said that anything he says is always misused as many people hate him for speaking the truth. “Anything I say is always misused because there are people […]

  • Saturday, 01 May 2021
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