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Saturday, January 3, 2026
TopicVeterans

Topic: Veterans

India’s oldest air force pilot dies — Dalip Singh Majithia, who flew alongside Manekshaw & Asghar Khan

Squadron Leader Majithia joined air force in Nov 1939 during World War 2. He had also worked under IAF legend Mehar Singh apart from flying with ex-Pakistan air force chief.

‘Assault on dignity…’ — veterans’ group demands rollback of ‘draconian’ changes to disability pension

All-India Ex-Servicemen Welfare Association, in statement addressed to defence ministry, says new entitlement rules 'turn medical science on its head and beat logic to death'.

‘The Young and the Restless’ star Brett Hadley no more

Hadley joined the daytime serial as father of Doug Davidson’s character, Paul Williams, in 1980 and remained with the show through 1990, when his character mysteriously disappeared.

On Camera

Savitribai Phule made space for radical women misfits. She pioneered Satyashodhak modernity

The distinctiveness of her writing is evident in her compositions—women, shudras, and atishudras are at the center. Her poetry challenges the aesthetics of 'modern' Marathi literature.

India’s urban co-op banks are turning the page—crisis to cautious revival, one metric at a time

With bad loans shrinking & capital buffers stronger, urban co-op banks’ new umbrella body NUCFDC is now prioritising rollout of digital transformation.

Greece looking at TATA’s WhAP infantry combat vehicle for army procurement

If deal goes through, Greece will be 2nd foreign country to procure vehicle. Morocco was first; TATA Group has set up manufacturing unit there with minimum 30 percent indigenous content.

A year-end Mea Culpa in National Interest—The Army-Islam combo doesn’t kill democracy

Many of you might think I got something so wrong in National Interest pieces written this year. I might disagree! But some deserve a Mea Culpa. I’d deal with the most recent this week.