Alice Wells, US Acting Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asia, said at a special briefing of the 74th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) that the onus of restoring peaceful relations between the two countries hinges primarily on Pakistan’s willingness to rein in terror elements operating within its borders.
“The process of selecting astronauts is going on. They will be going to Russia for training in about a month… We are planning to select 12 astronauts and they will go to Russia. The Russians will select four from this and then the selected four astronauts will undergo rigorous training for 15 months,” Sivan told mediapersons on sidelines of the 4th ISSE National Conference 2019 organised on SAC campus.
National Resource Efficiency Policy has been drafted by the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change with the aim to double the recycling rate of key materials to 50 per cent in next five years and also enable upcycling of waste.
“Under the ‘Siachen Swachhta Abhiyan’, Indian Army has managed to clean 130 tonnes of garbage from the Siachen Glacier since January 2018,” Indian Army officials said on Tuesday. Out of the 130.14 tonnes brought down, 48.14 tonnes is non-biodegradable while 40 tonnes include plastic and glass waste. The metallic content including shells of ammunition is around 41.45 tonnes.
Air Marshal HS Arora has been appointed as the Vice Chief of Indian Air Force (IAF).
He will succeed Air Marshal RKS Bhadauria who will take over as the Chief of Air Staff on September 30. Arora currently heads the Gandhinagar headquartered South Western Air Command of the Air Force. Meanwhile, Air Marshal B Suresh has been appointed as Western Air Commander of the Air Force, in New Delhi. Suresh will succeed Kargil war hero Air Marshal Raghunath Nambiar on October 31. He is the incumbent AOC-in-C of Southern Air Command.
The symposium achieved great success in building an Army-Industry relationship with the common objective of developing customised and effective solutions for the Indian Army and progress towards self reliance in the Indian defence industry to align with the govt initiative of ‘Make in India
The proposed defence estate office would be harbinger of good fortune for land owners along the border areas of the state, official sources informed here on Wednesday.Union Minister of State Kiren Rijiju, who represent Arunachal West parliamentary seat, had persuaded with the defence ministry to get compensation sanctioned. The ministry provided land compensation payment after more than 56 years of India’s war with China.
Kusmanda is also mentioned in the Nilamata Purana (sixth-eighth centuries BC) as being a common part of diet in ancient Kashmir (Kasmira). The Pancharatra text, Ishwara Samhita (eight-ninth centuries), refers to the use of kusmanda in offerings or bhog. The text describes ash gourd cooked in hot ghee with powdered peppers and cumin. This is one of the first bhog recipes of ash gourd, a pointer to its significance in the rise of Vaishnava belief, which took precedence over Shakta and Shaiva beliefs and formed the core of Brahminical Hinduism.
While briefing the media, Shri R. Subrahmanyam said that the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), MHRD’s Innovation Cell (MIC), All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) along with Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore and NTUitive Pte Ltd are co-organizing the 2nd edition of Singapore India Hackathon at IIT Madras, Chennai. He added that the Singapore India Hackathon 2019 will be flagged off on September28, 2019 in the presence of the MoS, HRD, Shri. Sanjay Shamrao Dhotre.
The Chairman of the CoSC is responsible for the inter-services synergy between the Army, the Air Force, and the Navy. The senior-most chief from amongst all the three services of the defence forces is selected as the Chairman of CoSC. Rawat, who was commissioned into the Indian Army in December 1978, is at present the senior-most chief from all the three services.
