Nirmala Sitharaman (File Photo/IANS)

Sitharaman sticks to Foreign Secy’s remark on Balakot casualty

Chennai:  Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Tuesday said the central government’s stand on the number of terrorists killed in the Indian Air Force (IAF) bombing of terror camps in Balakot is what the Foreign Secretary had stated earlier. “The Indian government’s stand on the casualty figure is the same as that of the Foreign Secretary’s […]

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Gloom in family of pilot in Pakistani custody

Chennai | The parents of Wing Commander Varthaman Abhinandan were engulfed by gloom after coming to know that their son had been taken into custody in Pakistan. When IANS contacted his father, retired Air Marshal Simhakutty Varthaman, over telephone, he declined to speak. The distressed family lives in Chennai’s outskirts. Like his father, Abhinandan chose […]