Congress leader Sonia Gandhi called Sushma Swaraj a lady of extraordinary gifts, whose warm personal qualities brought a special lustre to her years in politics.
Over the years, Sushma Swaraj had visited the UN on multiple occasions, addressing world leaders in Hindi at the annual high-level General Assembly sessions.
A loyal BJP leader and an easily-accessible external affairs minister, Sushma Swaraj has left behind a legacy of possibilities she opened up for women politicians in a male-dominated party like the BJP.
Airshows are thrilling spectacles of aviation skill and engineering marvels. But they carry inherent risks as the crew is pushing the aircraft, and themselves, to perform at the edges of the envelope.
While global corporations setting up GCCs in India continue to express confidence in availability of skilled AI engineers, the panel argued that India’s real challenge lies elsewhere.
Wing Commander Namansh Syal is survived by his wife, their 6-year-old daughter and his mother. Back in his native village, relatives and neighbours wait for his remains for last rites.
It is a brilliant, reasonably priced, and mostly homemade aircraft with a stellar safety record; only two crashes in 24 years since its first flight. But its crash is a moment of introspection.
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