Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar News

Uttar Pradesh BJP legislature party is likely to meet here on March 16 to decide who would be the next chief minister of the key Hindi heartland state, days after the party's landslide victory.

Banerjee said she is not happy with the language of the letter and that her criticism only directed at the government policy and not the army.

"We don't itch for a fight, but if someone looks at the country with evil eye, we will gouge his eyes out and put them back in his hand,” Parrikar said.

"After the surgical strike, the cowardly attacks continued which were retaliated strongly by our Armed Forces on the border. Our response to their attacks was strong,” Parrikar said.

"The morale of the Army has gone up. Army wants to teach lesson to our enemy," Parrikar said during BJP's campaign meeting in Vasco.

Parrikar said the focus under the BJP-led government at the Centre was to make the country's borders safer. 

"The DAC considered and approved guidelines for suspension or banning of entities or blacklisting," sources said.

Parrikar said he hoped to see the manufacturing facility develop from a copter repair and maintenance operation to a helicopter engine manufacturing facility.

He said, “Missions like the Thursday's surgical strikes on terror camps could be done again if the security of the country was challenged or jeopardised.”

However, the minister also sympathised with the AAP leader for being on "sick leave".

“If the (Embraer) case takes criminal turn, it will be handed over to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI),” Parrikar said.

"When I say we will release a leaked document on Scorpene weapons systems, they will of course be redacted by us of sensitive information (sic)," Steward said in a series of tweets.

BJP President Amit Shah will be kick-starting the party's campaign for the 2017 state polls.

"Terrorists trying to sneak into India have either been shot dead or beaten a retreat," Parrikar said.

Parrikar said he was not opposed to the "freedom of expression, but feels that country is supreme."

No concrete evidence on the missing AN-32 aircraft of the Indian Air Force (IAF) has emerged so far, Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar informed the Lok Sabha on Thursday.

The search continued with more assets being pulled in, even as the rough seas posed a challenge. 

Parrikar should have been at the command centre monitoring the action in Kashmir, a Congress spokesperson said.

Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar says Print journalism is a lot more responsible than TV journalism.

However, Parrikar made it clear that the "affirmative action" towards empowerment of women will be done gradually without compromising main task of armed forces which is national security.