Amid the several questions raised about the four-decade-old MiG-21 fighter planes that remain the core of Indian Air Force’s warplane fleet, Air Chief Marshal BS Dhanoa said, “The Indian Air force is still flying 44-year-old MiG-21 fighter jets when no one even drives cars that old.”
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All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen president Asaduddin Owaisi, on Monday, took a swipe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the “Modi ki air force” remark made by the BJP chief Amit Shah.
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In the wake of her party colleagues giving out figures as well as denying the same and the opposition questioning the success of the IAF mission, the senior BJP leader said the Air Force went Pakistan to kill terrorists and not to bring their bodies back.
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The Union home minister said that some 300 mobile phones, which were found to be active by the National Technical Research Organization at the site of the terror camp at Balakot ahead of the bombing by the Indian Air Force, were not used by the plants and trees there.
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The former Army chief and minister of state for external affairs General Vijay Kumar Singh, on Tuesday, said the death toll is not a “confirmed figure” and that the BJP chief meant that these many “might have died” in the air strike.
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Congress leaders Navjot Singh Sidhu and Kapil Sibal, on Monday, just like other political leaders from opposition expressed their scepticism over the impact of the February 26 Indian Air Force’s air strikes against Jaish-e-Muhammed terror camps in Pakistan’s Balakot.
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The BJP chief Shah, during a public meeting Ahmedabad, said, “After Pulwama, everyone thought there could be no surgical strikes, what will happen? But under Narendra Modi’s leadership, the government carried out an air strike and killed more than 250 terrorists.”
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Union minister and BJP Lok Sabha MP from Darjeeling SS Ahluwalia said the purpose of the strike was not to cause human casualty but to send out the message that India can hit deep inside Pakistan.
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Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman, the Indian Air Force pilot who was captured two days ago by the Pakistan army after his MiG-21 Bison was shot down during an aerial engagement between India and Pakistan, returned home, on Friday late night.
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The pilot’s homecoming came as a celebration across the country. President Ram Nath Kovind, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and several other political leaders took to social media and welcomed him.
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