The biggest UAV procurements for the JK police has already been approved Union home ministry. The UAVs will help the police to keep an eye on protesters and militant movements. Officials privy to details of the procurements told Hindustan Times that tenders have already been floated by the procurement wing of the JK police and the process could be completed by this month which would give cops more eyes in the sky.
This move also mainstreams the NSCS and gives it the authority to service the NSC, SPG and even the DPG. It can now generate cabinet notes, access relevant cabinet proposals and partake in inter-ministerial deliberations just like any other government department. Until now, the Cabinet Secretary would have to send out periodic reminders to various ministries to route relevant notes through the NSCS for comments.
Industry experts said some domestic companies have been supplying parts for anti-personnel mines to OFB and there are likely to be several respondents to the Army’s request for information. However, the competition could be limited to two major players that have the capacity for the delicate procedure of filling in explosives.
Importantly, of the 61 strategic roads spanning 3,346 km being built by BRO along the India-China border, 3,298 km are now connected. Over 2,400 km, or nearly 72%, of these roads are already blacktopped, making them all-weather roads. India’s Border Roads Organisation (BRO) has built an alternative road through which its troops can enter the Doklam valley — the site of a 73-day military standoff between India and China in 2017 — where the Chumbi valley of China, Bhutan and India converge, a development that has the potential to alter the military dynamics in the region.
The technique, developed by PhD student Souvik Ghosh and Associate Professor Ambarish Ghosh, uses a focused laser beam to trap and manoeuvre a nano-sized silver disk, which in turn can attract and ensnare nanoparticles when light is shone on it.
Two satellites would be sent to space on board a regular PSLV mission and the two would be made to dock with each other, Sivan said, describing the exercise as a technology demonstration experiment.
Under the world’s largest streetlight replacement programme being implemented by state-owned Energy Efficiency Services Ltd (EESL), these streetlights are illuminating 2.7 lakh km of roads, resulting in annual energy savings of 6.71 billion kilowatt hours (kWh) and helping reduce 4.63 million tons of carbon dioxide emission.
Air Marshal Ghotia replaced Air Marshal H S Arora, who moved to Air Headquarters as the Vice-Chief of Air Staff. Prior to assuming the present appointment, Air Marshal Ghotia was the Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief of Training Command. An alumnus of the National Defence Academy, Air Marshal Ghotia was commissioned in the fighter stream of the IAF in December, 1981. He has held various posts including Chief Operations Officer and Station Commander of a forward base in SWAC.
Polycrack Plant can be fed with all types of plastic, petroleum sludge, unsegregated MSW with moisture up to 50 per cent, ewaste, automobile fluff, organic waste including bamboos, garden waste and Jathropa fruit and palm bunch.
Around 60 soldiers from both Indian and Kazakhstan would share their experiences of counter terrorism operations during the exercise, he said, adding that its was an yearly exercise conducted between both the armies. It will will conclude on October 15, an Indian Army spokesman said.
