“As on October 31, 2019, a total grid connected solar power generation capacity of 31,696 MW has been set up in the Country, projects of 17,998 MW capacity are at various stages of installations,” the minister said.
This is the second State Visit to India by royal couple, the first was in 1993. It is the fourth high-level exchange between Sweden and India since 2015 when then President Pranab Mukherjee was on a State Visit to Sweden. In 2016, Prime Minister Stefan Löfven visited India and in 2018 Modi visited Sweden.
iDex was started to create an ecosystem to foster innovation and technology development in Defence and Aerospace by engaging with innovators and startups to deliver technologically advanced solutions for modernizing the Indian Military. A passion for robotics and to innovate something path-breaking was the driving force behind the development of EyeROV – India’s first commercial underwater robotic drone by two IIT post graduates. It was a match, waiting to happen.
Minister of state for electronics and IT (MeitY) Sanjay Dhotre said Wednesday that the government is drafting an approach paper on the National Level Blockchain Framework which discusses the potential for distributed ledger technology and the need for a shared infrastructure for different use cases.
The two countries specifically called upon Islamabad to “fully comply” with its international commitments to deal with terrorism including the steps prescribed by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), the global anti-terror watchdog.
While singing the famous Indian song by Mohammad Rafi — “Ae watan, ae watan, hamko teri kasam” from the 1965 Bollywood movie “Shaheed” — young Russian military cadets, along with their families and senior Indian military personnel, can be seen heartily swaying to the music in a video shared widely on Twitter.
The test of the K4 submarine launched nuclear capable missile was scheduled to take place from the eastern coast as reported but the window is likely to be used for an Agni series missile firing. Sources said that the 3,500 km range missile, designed for the Arihant class of nuclear submarines, is likely to be tested from a fixed underwater pontoon as part of the developmental trials being conducted by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) within a fortnight.
Indian Oil Corp., the country’s top refiner, announced on Nov. 12 that it was in the process of negotiating with Rosneft to increase oil purchases and expand investments in Russian oil refining projects, amid political tension in the Middle East that is affecting energy supplies.
“The French officer has begun his on-job learning informally as the terms of reference are not complete,” said a source.The Centre is expected to collate data on sea lanes in the Indian Ocean Region (IOR) through which 75 per cent of the world’s maritime trade and 50 per cent of global oil pass. However, the region is troubled by maritime terrorism, piracy, human and contraband trafficking, illegal and unregulated fishing, arms running and poaching.
Exercise Surya Kiran is an annual event which is conducted alternately in India and Nepal. Notably, in the series of military training exercises undertaken by India with various countries, Exercise Surya Kiran with Nepal is important in terms of the security challenges faced by both the nations in the realm of changing facets of global terrorism.
