Codenamed HimVijay, this exercise planned by India in the northeast will mainly test the war fighting abilities of the newly-raised 17 Mountain Strike Corps in Arunachal Pradesh. The exercise will also involve the Indian Air Force (IAF) which would provide the aerial elements for the real war-type drills.
The commitment to increase additional 2.5-3 billion tonnes carbon sink was made by India in the Paris Agreement in 2015 to fight climate change.
After his retirement from the Indian Army in 2013, General Guha served on the Expert Panel on Technology and Innovation in UN Peacekeeping (2014) and the High-Level Independent Panel on Peace Operations (2015). Guha will succeed Danish Lieutenant General Michael Lollesgaard, who served in these posts from January 31 to July 31, 2019.
Guha brings to this position 39 years of national and international military experience.
A Defence Ministry release said that Indian and Royal Thailand Army (RTA) contingents comprising 50 soldiers each will participate in the exercise with an aim to share experience gained during various counter-terrorism operations. MAITREE is an annual training event which is being conducted alternatively in Thailand and India since 2006. The scope of this exercise covers company-level joint training on counter-terrorism operations in jungle and urban scenario.
An agreement has been signed by Russia’s GK Launch Services, an operator of Soyuz-2 commercial launches from Russian spaceports, to launch an Indian satellite via Soyuz rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome space centre. It will be launched in 2020.
There are five models in the MACH 1 collection, with prices ranging from Rs 48,000 to Rs 53,000, the company said, adding that the price of the MACH 1X special-edition is available on request.
Inspired by the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) model of education, the IIS will be developed on a public-private-partnership (PPP) mode with land coming from government and capital from the Tata Group.
The DAC approved the capital procurement for the India armed forces Services amounting to approximately Rs 2,000 crore. The decision to go for indigenous ammunition for the Russian-origin T-72 and T-90 tanks is yet another push to the ‘Make in India’ initiative, The procurement of Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) developed and industry manufactured Mechanical Mine Layer (Self Propelled) to improve automated minelaying capability with the Indian Army was also approved.
“Gilgit-Baltistan is a part of India. The members of the United Nations need to realise that Pakistan has become a huge stumbling block for the last 70 years,” Senge H Sering, an activist from Gilgit-Baltistan and the Director of the Institute of Gilgit Baltistan Studies in Washington DC, said at the 42nd session of the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva on Wednesday.
A 700-year-old artifact, which is an antique Natarajar idol, has been retrieved from art gallery in Australia. The idol was stolen from the Kulasekaramudayar-Aramvalarth Nayagi temple in Tamil Nadu in 1982. The idol investigation team headed by retired Inspector General of Police, Pon Manickavel played a crucial role in bringing back the 700-year-old statue belonging to the Pandyan era.
