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“RSBVL has acquired equity shares of Asteria Aerospace for a cash consideration of Rs 23,12,49,584. The said investment represents 51.78 per cent holding in the equity share capital of Asteria,” Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) said in a BSE filing. Asteria, incorporated in India in June 2011, is a full-stack drone technology company with in-house drone manufacturing capabilities, and also offers software solutions to provide actionable insights from aerial data, intending to deliver “drone-as-a-service” digital platform.

The 1971 war was a military conflict between India and Pakistan. It began with preemptive airstrikes on 11 Indian Air Force stations by Pakistan on 3 December 1971 due to erstwhile East Pakistan. As a result, the Indian Army agreed to support the Bengali nationalist groups in the Bangladesh independence struggle in East Pakistan.

Delivering the inaugural Manohar Parrikar Memorial Lecture, Bipin Rawat also said that India’s response to terror attacks in Uri and Pulwama was much more “robust” compared to “inaction” after the 2008 Mumbai terror attack. “To achieve victory in a shorter time, we need leaner and meaner force which will inflict maximum damage on the adversary in a faster time frame and achieve the objective of victory,” Gen Bipin Rawat said.