Over one billion people around the world are members of a cooperative. More than 12 per cent of humanity is part of any of the 3 million cooperatives in the world. Financial cooperatives serve 13 per cent of the world population while agricultural cooperatives produce 50 per cent of global agriculture output implying immense potential that exists in the sector for global trade.
The “apparent high handedness” of the Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) troops has led to tension between the two sides with BSF chief V K Johri calling up his counterpart Major General Shafeenul Islam over a hotline. The BGB Director General has assured a through probe of the incident, they said.
In a ceremony held in the city on Wednesday, the IAF said the concept of IACCS aims towards facilitating centralised command and control by automated integration of all air defence resources. The Bengaluru node exercises air defence control over the whole Southern Peninsula and is the only such node in this region. The node is equipped with the latest batch of equipment from BEL.
At a key conference here, the top commanders also felt that a Joint Services Act will facilitate faster integration of operation of the three forces, besides enhancing combat overall combat capabilities, official sources said. The commanders also decided to roll out at the earliest new training module at different levels to include various operational dimensions like space warfare and artificial intelligence.
In fact, since September 27, the Army has not only increased its own footfall in the forests, it has also air dropped several units of its elite para commandos in the forests. This is because, as sources have told News18, security agencies suspect the presence of at least two dozen highly trained and heavily armed militants in the area.
The Special Action Group of NSG also known as 51 SAG will be deployed in Pathankot. The hub will have a force of 500 NSG commandos who will be stationed permanently in Pathankot. The proposed Pathankot hub of NSG will be able to secure airbases, Army stations and other important assets in Punjab as well as respond much more quickly to tackle hostage like situations.
The India-USA tri-services defence exercise will be held for the first time in Visakhapatnam next month, informed US consul general (Hyderabad Consulate) Joel Reifman, on his maiden visit to Visakhapatnam and Andhra Pradesh.
The launch of the mobile banking facility comes almost a year after the Department of Post launched Internet banking facility for its savings account holders.
AEPPL MD Ichizo Aoyama and Gujarat government’s principle secretary for Industries Shri MK Das signed this MoU in presence of State Chief Minister Vijay Rupani.
Support for NavIC will be available in select Qualcomm Technologies’ chipset platforms starting in late 2019 and commercial devices with NavIC support are expected to be available during the first half of 2020.
