01 February 2026
Indian Air Force (IAF) on Monday formally inducted its first C295 transport aircraft at Hindon Air Base in Uttar Pradesh’s Ghaziabad, where Defence Minister was Rajnath Singh present to mark the occasion.
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh inaugurated the Bharat Drone Shakti-2023 exhibition at the Hindon Air Base, where the induction ceremony of C295 aircraft also took place. Air Chief Marshal Vivek Ram Chaudhari was also present at the event.
Following the criticism against Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for meeting and honouring a veteran of a Nazi division, Speaker of the House of Commons Anthony Rota issued an apology to the Jewish community on Sunday. The apology came after Canada's Leader of Opposition Pierre Poilievre pointed out Trudeau's "appalling error in judgment".
Trudeau met with and honored a veteran of the 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS, a Nazi division, during Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's visit to Canada this week. Poilievre, in criticism, took to social media and demanded an apology from the Prime Minister.
Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Sunday praised Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his foreign policy and for rooting out the corruption in the country. Patnaik was participating in an interactive session at the Odisha Literary Festival organised in Bhubaneswar in Bhubaneswar by the New Indian Express Group.
"We have cordial relationships with the centre, naturally we want the development of our state it's important to have the centre as a partner in the development," he said.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on Sunday (September 24), during his episode of monthly radio broadcast 'Mann Ki Baat' lauded Germany's Cassandra Mae Spittmann for pursuing her passion for Indian music.
In his address to the nation, PM Modi said, "Indian culture and Indian music are now global. More and more people worldwide are getting attracted to them."
With over 1.4 billion people, China is the second most populous country in the world today. Yet, even its staggering population will not be able to fill the astronomical number of empty apartments littered across the country. Or at least that's what a former official feels.
In a rare public critique of China's property crisis, former deputy head of the statistics bureau He Keng said that experts have estimated up to 3 billion vacant homes in the country, Reuters reported.
