Details on Rafale deal published in ‘public interest’: N Ram

New Delhi: Documents related to the Rafale deal were published in public interest and nobody would get any information from ‘The Hindu’ newspaper on the confidential sources who provided them, The Hindu Publishing Group Chairman N Ram said on Wednesday. The documents were published because details were withheld or covered up, the veteran journalist said […]

Pakistani national held in Gujarat

NEW DELHI: A 50-year-old Pakistan national was apprehended by the BSF from the Rann of Kutch area along the Indo-Pak border in Gujarat Wednesday, a senior official said. He said the unidentified man from Pakistan was nabbed by a patrol party of the border guarding force near border pillar number 1050. “No document or suspicious […]

Pak FM Qureshi maintains that PAF shot down 2 IAF fighter jets

Names second Pak pilot in Parliament

Islamabad: Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi on Wednesday maintained that the Pakistan Air Force jets shot down two Indian fighter planes and identified the Pakistani pilot in Parliament. Tensions between India and Pakistan flared up after a suicide bomber of Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammed killed 40 CRPF personnel in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pulwama district on February […]

F-16 use by Pak, US says seeking reports

WASHINGTON: The US is “very closely” following the reports which have claimed that Pakistan misused American-made F-16 fighter jets against India in the recent aerial confrontation between the air forces of the two countries, a top State Department official has said. The Indian Air Force on Thursday displayed parts of an AMRAAM beyond visual range […]