The high-altitude integrated surveillance and firepower training exercise called 'Buland Bharat' in the crucial Tawang and West Kameng districts of Arunachal Pradesh saw the Army use 155mm Bofors howitzers, 105mm field guns and 120mm mortars, among other heavy weapon systems, sources told TOI Wednesday.
Sharad Pawar is inclined to stick to his decision to quit as NCP chief though he has asked for a few days to do a rethink after party leaders and activists refused to accept his resignation on Tuesday, people close to the NCP founder said. "He is serious and unlikely to walk back on his decision even though there will be enormous pressure to him from across the rank and file of the party to do so," said one of them.
China announced on Tuesday its foreign minister Qin Gang will visit India for the SCO foreign ministers' meeting in Goa on May 4-5. This will be Qin's second visit to India after his participation in the G20 foreign ministers' meeting here in March. Qin will look to discuss the agenda for Xi's visit in his likely second bilateral with his Indian counterpart S Jaishankar on the sidelines of the SCO meeting
Top opposition figures, including Congress's Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi, Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal, NCP patriarch Sharad Pawar and Le...
