The Indian Air Force on Saturday carried out a mega exercise here involving almost all variants of its fighter jets and attack helicopters, in a fire power demonstration near the border with Pakistan.
A Court of inquiry will investigate the cause of the accident.
Over 180 passengers, mostly the GATE aspirants, were on Sunday airlifted by the Indian Air Force (IAF) from Jammu to Srinagar, a defence spokesman said.
The number is projected to rise to 30 by 2027, with four more squadrons of LCA Tejas. The contract for these 83 LCA Tejas Mark1A is yet to be signed between the IAF and HAL, it further said.
The statement from Dhanoa came amid reports of China ramping up its air defence infrastructure in Tibet.
The accused persons managed to get remote access to computers used in the examination by setting up a parallel system at a private hospital adjacent to the exam centre on Hisar-Rohtak road.
The Rafale fighter is a twin-engine Medium Multi Role Combat Aircraft manufactured by French aerospace company Dassault Aviation.
The aircraft turned into a huge ball of fire as soon as it landed into an open field.
In Garautha tehsil of Jhansi district, eight fishermen were stranded on an island near Erech Dam on the Betwa River after a sudden rise in water level owing to heavy downpour, they said.
India will be receiving 22 AH-64E Apache attack, and 15 CH-47F(I) Chinook transport, helicopters in total.
It's been over 12 hours since the fire started at a rubber godown in Khirki Extension area of Malviya Nagar.
According to reports, all the crew members of the IAF helicopter were safely rescued from the crashed chopper.
IAF’s Sukhoi and Jaguar fighter aircraft, equipped with the potent Brahmos and Harpoon anti ship missiles, showcased their strategic reach and capability to carry out any sort of operations over the area as part of the pan-India exercise “GaganShakti”.
The first phase of the exercise will focus on northern borders and second phase will be carried out to check preparedness in case of a war-like situation along the western borders.
As per reports, the accident happened at the time of landing.
This is not the first time when crooks have floated fake IAF website and carried out "recruitment" in its name. Two years back, similar fraud had come to the fore after IAF started receiving calls from applicants.
As per reports, severely injured pilots have been rushed to a nearby hospital.
Nine dead confirmed in the fire. The people who died in the fire include four women, four men and a child. Out of 27 people who have been rescued 10 of them have minor injuries, while 8 of them have serious injuries.
Group Captain Arun Marwaha used to click pictures of classified documents pertaining to combat exercises at the Air Force headquarters and then send them to women working for foreign spy agency.
As IAF aircraft took to the skies at the end of the 90-minute parade, leaders on the saluting dais looked skywards to follow the manoeuvres.
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