Mysore/Mysuru: A city-based M.Tech graduate, who made several attempts to join the Indian Air Force (IAF) has finally made it in his sixth attempt. M.Prashanth of Mysuru has been selected as the Meteorology Officer at the IAF and has shifted to Indian Air Force Academy in Hyderabad for training. Prashanth pursued Aero-nautical Engineering from Acharya…
Kollegal lass becomes country’s first woman Flight Test Engineer
May 23, 2021Kollegal: Sqn Ldr Ashritha V. Oleti of Indian Air Force, hailing from Kollegal in Chamarajanagar district, has been selected as the country’s first woman Flight Test Engineer and has brought laurels to the State. Daughter of late O.V. Venkatesh Babu and O.V. Vani couple, she has obtained degree from Indian Air Force Test Pilot School,…
Indian Air Force to establish 100-bed Covid treatment facility in Bengaluru
May 5, 2021Bengaluru: The Indian Air Force (IAF) has established a 100-bedded Covid treatment facility at Air Force Station, Jalahalli, in the outskirts of the city in an attempt to provide succour to the general public of Bengaluru, reeling under second wave of COVID-19 pandemic. The Centre with the first 20 beds will be operational from Thursday…
President in Kodagu
February 6, 2021First Couple offers special pujas at Talacauvery; Ram Nath Kovind to dedicate General K.S. Thimayya Museum at Madikeri to the Nation at 3.15 pm Madikeri: India’s First Citizen President Ram Nath Kovind and his wife Savitha Kovind arrived in Kodagu this morning. An Indian Air Force chopper carried the First Couple from the HAL Airport…
Aero India 2021 takes flight in Bengaluru
February 3, 2021World’s first hybrid air show begins at Indian Air Force Station, Yelahanka Bengaluru: The Aero India 2021 event, the country’s premier aerospace and defence exhibition, kick-started at Indian Air Force Station in Yelahanka, Bengaluru this morning in the shadow of the COVID-19 pandemic. The 13th edition of the international event, touted as the world’s first-ever…
Five Rafale jets join IAF’s ‘Golden Arrows’ Squadron
September 10, 2020New Delhi: Five French-made multirole Rafales were inducted this morning into the Indian Air Force’s “Golden Arrows” Squadron at the Ambala Air Force Station, the country’s oldest Air Force base built in 1919. A Rafale fighter jet flew above the airbase as Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and his French counterpart Florence Parly watched it from…
Bronze Statue of Sqn. Ldr. A.B. Devayya to be unveiled at Madikeri on Sept. 7
August 31, 2020A befitting tribute to Indo-Pak War Hero on his 55th death anniversary By Prasad Sampigekatte Madikeri: The statue of Squadron Leader Ajjamada Bopayya Devayya will be unveiled at Madikeri in Kodagu District on Sept. 7. The 6-feet-9-inch bronze statue installed at the Old Private Bus Stand Circle will be unveiled on the day Devayya was…
The Tejas man from Mysuru
August 21, 2020Receives commendation letter from IAF for scripting a new chapter for indigenous manufacturing of Tejas Light Combat Aircraft By M.T. Yogesh Kumar Mysore/Mysuru: The Indian Air Force (IAF) recently moved some of its Tejas Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) from their home base in Sulur in Tamil Nadu to the western sector to strengthen its operational…
Rafales make Indian Air Force fierce
July 30, 2020Ambala (Haryana): The five Rafale fighter jets that landed in Ambala Air Base last afternoon will resurrect the Number 17 Golden Arrows squadron of the Indian Air Force. It will take the IAF’s squadron strength to 31. When all the 36 Rafale jets are delivered by 2022, it will take it to 32 squadrons, still…
India acquires “Shakti” with Rafale: Remembering Ajit Doval’s Speech
July 30, 2020Recently I received a forwarded WhatsApp in Hindi, a speech by Ajit Doval, our National Security Advisor (NSA). Being a student of Ancient, Medieval and Modern (not current) Indian History in my graduate classes, it interested me. I guess it was an old long speech, the subject being such. I requested R. Chandra Prakash, former…
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