Kautilya

Havildar Sangram Keshari Jena of Jajpur district attached to ”Daredevils” motorcycle display team of Indian Army Corps of Signals made the attempt at Head Quarters 1 Signal Training Centre in Madhya Pradesh’s Jabalpur city on November 15. The 33-year-old rode while standing on an 11-feet ladder with his back to the direction in which the motorcycle was moving. Jena completed the manoeuvre in four hours, 29 minutes and 45 seconds, covering a distance of 128 km.

India and France became strategic partners in 1998 and it is important to remember that France was one of the few countries which did not come down heavily on India in the aftermath of its nuclear tests in the same year. Under President Macron, France has been playing an active role in the international arena and earlier this year it extended a special invitation to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to attend the G-7 Summit in Biarritz, France.

240 Spike anti-tank missiles were acquired by the Indian Army from Israel via an emergency procurement route.Even though the missiles are primarily aimed for use in anti-tank activities they can also be used to destroy hardened shelters or bunkers where the terrorists are hiding. “The Spike missiles would be deployed along the LoC by the Army as they can also be used in the bunker-buster mode,” said sources to the news agency.

In the process, the Indian army with its British-made rifles, machine guns and artillery advanced against the Turks in an extraordinary range of operations great and small, blasting, bayoneting and bounding its way forward over beaches, deserts, rivers and mountains almost all around the Ottoman fringe. By November 1918, the Indian army’s immense grip on formerly Ottoman-controlled soil, where it had defeated the Turks, was reflected in the sheer size and breadth of its occupation. It was the single-largest Allied force in the Turkish theatres