With an aim to integrate corporate social responsibility on the lines dictated by the Union ministry of corporate affairs, the AP Pollution Control Board has urged entrepreneurs in the state to indulg

Groundwater levels in the state are receding at an alarming rate. While groundwater in many areas was already in the ‘critical’ category earlier, village after village in the state is now nose-diving

On April 12, CISF constable D. Ramesh, on duty at the at the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport here, found a bag containing nearly 19,500 UAE dirhams. On checking, it was found to contain oth

Hundreds of acres of the military land and structures encroached over decades could be rescued in a single sweep. The Union minister of state for defence, Dr M.M. Pallam Raju, has stated that all reve

At a meeting of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Defence on Monday, a reference was made to the Deccan Chronicle reports on the acute shortage of basic trainer aircraft and the consequent drast

The unexpected and sudden grounding of the HPT-32 basic trainer aircraft fleet, coupled with the ageing fleet of Kiran Mk-I, has snowballed into a crisis whereby the flying training of the Indian Air

With the fleet of HPT-32 basic trainer aircraft grounded since mid-2009, rookie pilots of the Indian Air Force get only 25 hours of training in air, down from 150 hours, at the Air Force Academy, Dund

The Public Accounts Committee of Parliament’s concern over use of “outdated and ageing” aircraft for training IAF pilots seems to have acted as the wake-up call for the defence ministry. Union ministe

The Regional Passport Office on Tuesday handed over 264 passports to Haj pilgrims, and another 139 passports have been sent by post, notching up just over 400 of 1,400 cases recommended by the Haj Com

The Army is fighting a battle to retain its own land that is being encroached upon by squatters right in the heart of the military cantonment area.

Around 12,000 acre of defence land across the coun