The smell of new paint lingers in the air as rows of Tejas aircraft, the made-in-India fighter jets, are lined on the shop floor of Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) in Bengaluru, all set to fly.

Congress’s Sam Pitroda, mired deep in another controversy after his “at home in neighbouring countries” remark, has issued a clarification.

Following India’s Operation Sindoor, which targeted and destroyed nine major terrorist hideouts across Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) and mainland Pakistan, groups long embedded in the country have begun relocating.