Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar resigned from his position on Monday.

Ahead of elections in the state, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has announced a new government initiative — ‘Amar Para, Amar Samadhan’ (Our locality, our solution).

The mighty MiG-21, after serving the air force for 62 years, will retire and get replaced by the newer Tejas fighter jets. An idea conceived in the late 1980s, but several delays, developments and changes in technology pushed MiG-21’s retirement.