India was represented at the fourth India-Singapore Ministerial Roundtable, or ISMR, by Finance and Corporate Affairs Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, External Affairs Minister Dr S. Jaishankar, Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal, and Minister of State for Commerce and Industry and Electronics and Information Technology Jitin Prasada.
Under the agreement, BEL and Ananth Technologies will explore projects across several strategically important technology areas, including missile electronics, radar systems, satellite technologies and navigation equipment.
India’s Advanced Medium Combat Aircraft programme is showing increasingly visible signs of transition from design engineering towards prototype manufacturing. Recent procurement activity by the Aeronautical Development Agency includes ultra-high-strength AerMet 100 aerospace steel, specialised composite lay-up tooling and a major industrial tender for development of the AMCA itself. Together, these developments point to the manufacturing ecosystem for India’s fifth-generation fighter beginning to take physical shape.
When Damayanti awoke and discovered that Nala was gone, disbelief quickly gave way to anguish. She called his name again and again, expecting that he might be nearby or that he would answer from beyond the trees. No reply came. As she searched the ground, she realised that the cloth they had shared had been cut in two. One half remained with her, while Nala had taken the other. The meaning was unmistakable. He had left her alone in the wilderness.
Palandu is botanically identified as Allium cepa L. It belongs to the family Amaryllidaceae in modern botanical classification, although older botanical and Ayurvedic references often place it under Liliaceae. Kew’s Plants of the World Online recognises Allium cepa as an accepted species and describes it as a bulbous plant known primarily through cultivation.
The company says its objective is to build systems from scratch so that it retains greater control over performance, efficiency and manufacturing.
The geographical identities of both kingdoms survived beyond the epic age. Mathura became the recognised capital of the historical Surasena Mahajanapada, while Chedi remained associated with the eastern Bundelkhand region around the Ken river system.
The Indian Navy is steadily expanding deployment of the BrahMos supersonic cruise missile across its frontline surface fleet, with recent reports indicating that the service is working towards ensuring widespread BrahMos availability aboard its principal destroyers, frigates and missile combatants by around 2030. While the Navy has not publicly announced a formal fleet-wide 2030 deadline, official Ministry of Defence decisions confirm a major programme to expand the missile across both existing and future warships.
The latest reports also indicate that an Armenian technical team could visit India for familiarisation with the missile system and related training activities. Such a visit could include interaction with the system’s developers and manufacturers and potentially exposure to its operational procedures.
Women fighter pilots of the Indian Air Force flew frontline combat missions during Operation Sindoor, with a new defence report revealing that a woman Flight Lieutenant flying a Su-30MKI was part of the strike package that attacked Lashkar-e-Taiba’s headquarters at Muridke in Pakistan. The disclosure adds a previously unknown dimension to India’s 88-hour military campaign and shows that women fighter pilots were employed in the same operational roles as their male counterparts.
