SOURCE: PTI

IndiGo on Sunday announced placing a firm order for another 30 wide-body A350 planes with Airbus, taking the total number of such aircraft to 60.

In April last year, the airline placed a firm order for 30 A350 aircraft and there was an option to order 70 more such planes. At a briefing in the national capital, IndiGo CEO Pieter Elbers said that out of the option for 70 planes, it is now placing a firm order of 30 aircraft.

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Chief of Defence Staff General Anil Chauhan on Saturday said India’s Operation Sindoor has drawn a ‘new red line’ of intolerance against terror, and expressed hope that the military action has brought ‘some lessons for our adversary also’.

In response to queries related to the recent operation and the idea of ‘strategic stability’ in India-Pakistan ties, during an event held in Singapore under the Shangri-La Dialogue, the CDS further said, it takes two hands to join to clap together, ‘hopefully they understand this’.

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India has said that Pakistan should stop blaming it for the breach of the Indus Waters Treaty, as the unrelenting cross-border terrorism from its soil is interfering with the treaty’s implementation. Addressing the plenary session of the first UN conference on glaciers in Tajikistan’s Dushanbe on Friday, Minister of State for Environment Kirti Vardhan Singh said that Pakistan itself was violating the treaty through terrorism.

“We are appalled at the attempt by Pakistan to misuse the forum and to bring in unwarranted references to issues which do not fall within the purview of the forum. We strongly condemned such an attempt,” he said.

SOURCE: BLOOMBERG

Bangladeshi prosecutors officially charged former prime minister Sheikh Hasina and two senior officials with crimes against humanity for their alleged roles in violent crackdowns during the 2024 student-led uprising.

An investigation report found that Hasina “directly ordered” state security forces, her political party and affiliated groups to conduct operations resulting in mass casualties. “These killings were planned,” Chief Prosecutor Tajul Islam said in a televised hearing on Sunday, citing video evidence and encrypted communications between different agencies.

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At least 22 coastal villages in Tamil Nadu’s Kanyakumari district have reported being affected by debris from the sunken Liberian-flagged cargo vessel, MSC ELSA-3, which went down off the Kerala coast on May 24.

The wreckage, including plastic pellets, wooden logs, and even a container, has been steadily washing ashore in the villages of Killiyoor and Kalkulam taluks over the past three days. The vessel was reportedly carrying 640 containers, including 13 with hazardous cargo and 12 with calcium carbide.

SOURCE: PTI

The Delhi high court has upheld the termination of services of a Christian army officer over his consistent refusal to fully participate in the weekly regimental religious parades and said the armed forces were united by their uniform rather than being divided by their religion.

A bench of Justices Navin Chawla and Shalinder Kaur rejected the petition by the Indian Army Lieutenant, who served as a ‘Troop Leader’ of a squadron, against the termination order passed on March 3, 2021, that dismissed him from the Indian Army without pension and gratuity.

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The Punjab police on Sunday claimed to have dismantled a terror and extortion module linked to an operative of proscribed outfit Babbar Khalsa International with the arrest of two people. 

Director general of police Gaurav Yadav said BKI member Jeevan Fauji was orchestrating an extortion racket targeting individuals in Punjab’s border districts.  Two of his associates — Karajpreet Singh, a resident of Verowal, and Gurlal Singh alias Harman, a resident of Goindwal Sahib in Tarn Taran, have been apprehended, he said. 

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Two more persons, accused of being “anti-nationals”, have been apprehended in Assam, taking the total number of such arrests to 81, since the Phalgam terror attack in April, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said on Sunday. 

In a post on X, Sarma said one person each was apprehended from Sonitpur and Kamrup districts.  “81 anti-nationals are now behind bars for sympathising with Pak…Our systems are constantly tracking anti-national posts on social media and taking action,” he added. 

SOURCE: PIB

The Indian Army is currently undertaking extensive Capacity Development Demonstrations at key locations across the country, including the Pokhran Field Firing Ranges, Babina Field Firing Ranges, and Joshimath, with dedicated Air Defence equipment demonstrations also scheduled at Agra and Gopalpur. These field trials are being conducted under near-combat conditions, integrating electronic warfare simulations to assess the performance of cutting-edge defence systems rigorously. On 27 May 2025, General Upendra Dwivedi, Chief of the Army Staff, visited Babina Field Firing Ranges and reviewed the ongoing demonstrations and interacted with all stakeholders.

The demonstrations feature a wide array of advanced technologies developed under the Aatmanirbhar Bharat initiative, aimed at accelerating indigenous capability development.

SOURCE: PTI

India has said that Pakistan should stop blaming it for the breach of the Indus Water Treaty, as the unrelenting cross-border terrorism from its soil is interfering with the treaty’s implementation.

Addressing the plenary session of the first UN conference on glaciers in Tajikistan’s Dushanbe on Friday, Minister of State for Environment Kirti Vardhan Singh said that Pakistan itself was violating the treaty through terrorism.

SOURCE: IANS

Indian astronaut and Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla is set to conduct exclusive food and nutrition-related experiments onboard the International Space Station (ISS) as part of the upcoming Axiom Mission 4 (Ax-4), Union Minister Dr Jitendra Singh said on Saturday. 

The experiments — developed under a collaboration between the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and the Department of Biotechnology (DBT), with support from NASA — aim to pioneer space nutrition and self-sustaining life support systems vital for future long-duration space travel.

SOURCE: IANS

With the strong emerging fiscal position in 2025-26, the government is likely to have some additional headroom to meet unforeseen expenditure on account of defence, according to a Bank of Baroda report released on Saturday.

The observation assumes importance in the backdrop of the tensions with Pakistan following the Pahalgam terror attack and Operation Sindoor. In its outlook for FY26, the report points out that the government has budgeted a fiscal deficit of 4.4 per cent of GDP, assuming 10.1 per cent growth in nominal GDP.

SOURCE: IANS

 In a stunning revelation that points to a deep-rooted espionage network, the arrest of CRPF Assistant Sub-Inspector (ASI) Motiram Jat has blown the lid off what sources say is a Pakistan-sponsored intelligence operation aimed at compromising India’s national security.

According to senior officials familiar with the investigation, Jat’s arrest on May 26 by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) triggered a sweeping nationwide crackdown across eight Indian states on Saturday.

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Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Saturday demanded the government to hold a special session of Parliament immediately, following Chief of Defence Staff General Anil Chauhan’s acknowledgement of aircraft loss in the hostilities.

General Chouhan, however, dismissed as “absolutely incorrect” Islamabad’s claim of downing six Indian jets.

SOURCE: IANS

The CPI(M) Polit Bureau, on Saturday, condemned the “push-back” and deportation of suspected Bangladeshi citizens through the Indo-Bangladesh international borders.

The CPI(M) has demanded that the government should deal with those who have entered the country illegally according to the laid-out procedures. “In the aftermath of the terrorist attack at Pahalgam, the BJP-led state governments and the Central government are targeting particularly Bengali-speaking Muslims and have, without any verification, pushed them to Bangladesh. According to reports, some genuine Indian citizens, too, are arrested and pushed into Bangladesh. Even though citizens who were declared foreign nationals by the Foreigners Tribunals, but whose appeals are still pending before the Assam High Court and the Supreme Court, have been forcibly pushed back. This should not be allowed,” the CPI(M) Polit Bureau said in a statement.