DH Evening Brief: 'Prachand' LCHs inducted | Tharoor denies G23's existence | IAF scrambles jets to intercept Iranian plane
IAF's prowess gets boost with homegrown Light Combat Helicopters
The Indian Air Force (IAF) on Monday inducted the first fleet of indigenously-built Light Combat Helicopter (LCH), which has been developed primarily for mountain warfare after a requirement for it was felt during the Kargil war in 1999.
It was all media's idea: Shashi Tharoor denies G23's existence
Congress presidential poll candidate Shashi Tharoor on Monday said that there is no G23 group, adding that it was all "media's idea".
IAF scrambles jets to intercept China-bound Iran flight after 'bomb threat'
The Indian Air Force scrambled fighter jets to intercept a civilian Mahan Air flight from Tehran headed for Guangzhou in China on Monday morning after a bomb threat, people familiar with the development said.
Congress's new diktat to office bearers on campaigning for party president poll candidate
Congress General Secretaries, state in-charges and presidents, legislature party leaders and spokespersons will have to resign from their posts if they want to campaign for one of the two candidates for the party president election.
Svante Pääbo awarded Nobel Prize in Medicine
Scientist Svante Paabo won the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discoveries "concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution", the award-giving body said on Monday.