Nirmala Sitharam  

Vajpayee's body was brought to Smriti Sthal after a five-kilometre-long funeral procession led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi

The technical specifications for foreign vendors of defence equipment will now be made as stringent as what is demanded of Indian manufacturers, and the trials of the equipment and machines will be held in equally trying conditions for both

On Wednesday, Congress leader Anand Sharma claimed in Rajya Sabha that BJP president Amit Shah, in his speech on NRC, had termed all PMs after Rajiv Gandhi as 'cowards'

The issue is likely to be raised during the India-US ministerial meeting next month

Sitharaman responded to Rahul's allegations and waved a copy of the agreement signed with the French government by the then defence minister of the Congress government, AK Antony

This agreement is crucial for the Navy to replace its ageing fleet of Sea King choppers, which were acquired in the 1980s from Britain for anti-submarine warfare and special operations

BJP has upped the ante over the ‘Hindu Pakistan’ comment of Congress leader Shashi Tharoor and subsequently a report where Rahul Gandhi is quoted to have said to an Urdu daily, ‘Congress is a Muslim party.’