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Crime

Will consider Yasin Malik a murderer only when courts tell so: John Dayal, in presence of murdered IAF official’s widow

OpIndia Staff - 10 September, 2019

Malik, lodged in Tihar, will be produced before a special TADA court in Jammu tomorrow on 11 September on charges of killing IAF personnel on January 25, 1990.

News Reports

Retired IAF officer commits suicide, blames P Chidambaram for economic slowdown

OpIndia Staff - 9 September, 2019

In his suicide note, a retired IAF officer has blamed former Finance Minister P Chidambaram for the current economic slowdown.

News Reports

Indian Air Force inducts 8 attack Boeing-64E Apache helicopters to replace ageing Russian Mi-35 choppers

OpIndia Staff - 3 September, 2019

The Indian Air Force also currently uses HAL Rudra as an attack helicopter. The HAL Rudra is the Weapon System Integrated (WSI) variant of the Dhruv Advanced Light Helicopter (ALH).

Media

NDTV slammed for referring to Wing Commander Abhinandan as the pilot who was captured by Pakistan

OpIndia Staff - 2 September, 2019

As the entire country welcomed Abhinandan Varthaman getting back his flying category after six months of his heroics, perhaps NDTV could not hide its misery

News Reports

Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman flies MiG-21 sortie with Indian Air Chief Marshal BS Dhanoa

OpIndia Staff - 2 September, 2019

In a historic event, Air Chief Marshal BS Dhanoa and Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman flew a sortie together in a two-seater version of the Russian-origin MiG-21.

News Reports

Kargil war hero fakes email to get a chance to fly the aircraft of Home Minister Amit Shah, BSF begins probe

OpIndia Staff - 27 August, 2019

Retired IAF pilot impersonates senior to get chance to fly L&T flight to clock flying hours so that he can fly BSF's Embraer used by Amit Shah

News Reports

Rafale Deal: CAG to table the audit report on offsets in Parliament in winter session

OpIndia Staff - 26 August, 2019

Earlier, the CAG report on the Rafale deal was tabled in Parliament in February. The chief auditor had not reviewed the offset audits as he did not want to combine it with the offset audit.

News Reports