JNU row: All you need to know about Umar Khalid

Hemmed in by the Delhi High Court's decision, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) student Umar Khalid, along with Anirban Bhattacharya, surrendered to Delhi Police Tuesday night.  Khalid, who faces charges of sedition, is among the five students who allegedly shouted anti-national slogans at a campus event on February 9.

The former Democratic Students Union (DSU) leader has remained at the centre of the storm surrounding JNU in the past few weeks.

Indian Navy successfully tests long-delayed air defence missile

In a giant capability boost for the Indian Navy, a naval warship on Wednesday test-fired a new missile that can shoot down incoming aerial threats – aircraft and missiles – whilst they are still 70 kilometres away.

A defence ministry press release stated: “Adding a quantum jump in its air defence capability, INS Kolkata, Indian Navy’s state of art, indigenous stealth destroyer, successfully test fired the Long Range Surface to Air Missile (LR-SAM).  Two missiles were fired on December 29 and 30 of on high-speed targets, during naval exercises being undertaken in the Arabian Sea.”

Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) and India’s Defence R&D Organisation (DRDO) have jointly developed the LR-SAM. The Israelis call this cutting-edge missile system the Barak-8, while India calls it the LR-SAM. In earlier days, ship-to-ship battles were fought with heavy-calibre guns, requiring warships to come within gun range of each other. Once a shell was fired from a gun, there was no way of intercepting it in mid-flight.Read More.