The signing of the RLSA is on the anvil, high-level defence sources said; India and the United States had signed the LEMOA or Logistics Exchange Memorandum of Agreement three years ago. Both sides are working to ensure that the agreement, to be signed by Rajnath Singh and his Russian counterpart, General Sergey Shoygu, is ready for signing in the next ten days.
Scientists from NTRO recently visited Kibithu, the eastern most sector of the LAC, ET has learnt. The army informed them about the need for mobile network. While the scientists agreed to raise the matter at the government’s highest level, they said that only mobile towers or microwave towers that need only small power supplies and project network can be setup along the border.
Speaking on the occasion, Dr Harsh Vardhan expressed India’s continued commitment in scientific research, its translation and commercialization and laid emphasis on how this event would be a huge opportunity to showcase India’s strength and build new partnerships and investment opportunities.
Wabtec’s 6000 hp diesel-electric locomotive – the first of its kind in India – is currently undergoing testing on Indian Railways track. It will shortly enter revenue service.
According to World Bank’s, Doing Business 2020 report, India ranked 63rd in the Ease of Doing Business index, 14 positions up from 77th rank last year
Snow Leopard enumeration of the Nation, which is the first of its kind, has been developed by scientific experts in association with the Snow Leopard States/UTs namely, Ladakh, Jammu & Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Sikkim and Arunanchal Pradesh.
Anandan – subedar with the Indian army – lost his left leg when a live mine went off as he was conducting a routine search at the LOC in Jammu & Kashmir’s Kupwara district back in June 2008. “For the first few months, I hid from my parents that I had lost a leg. When I went home with a wooden leg, they broke down. I could have chosen to sulk over my situation, but I decided to turn things around,” Anandan told
The nationalistic ‘New India’ of Prime Minister Narendra Modi has made some tough decisions. Be it surgical military strikes across borders, isolation campaigns against state sponsors of terrorism or international legal cases to secure justice for its citizens, the Modi government has vigorously defended India’s national interests.
A ceremonial Border Personnel Meeting (BPM) was held on the occasion of Diwali between the armies of India and China at Chushul Moldo and DBO-TWD meeting points in Eastern Ladakh.
Designed by the Defence Research and Development Organization (DRDO), the new FTR is a 10,000 tonne ship, 200 metres long and 60 metres wide, equipped with state-of-the art electro-optical missile tracking (EOTS), S-band radar tracking and telemetry devices apart from a launch pad, a launch control and mission control centre.
