Sources said that during the probe, it had emerged that the officers handling air defence responsibilities at the Srinagar airbase mistook the chopper returning midway from a mission as an incoming missile towards the base. The officers have been found guilty of charges including negligence and not following correct procedures while shooting down the Mi-17 V5 chopper.
With some of the most important world leaders, including Narendra Modi, Donald Trump, Justin Trudeau, Angela Markel, Shinzo Abe, Emmanuel Macron and others being a part of the G7 Summit, this will be the first annual meet for British PM Boris Johnson.
When Prime Minister Narendra Modi visits the city as the guest of honour at Eastern Economic Forum (EEF) in September, he would be announcing India’s plans to invest in Russia’s Far East, thus, paying back the long-held Indian debt to Vladivostok.
“In Bahrain there would be interactions with the Indian diaspora. It would be an honour for me to be present at the special ceremony marking the re-development of the temple of Lord Shreenathji, among the oldest temples in the Gulf region,” Modi said in a tweet on twitter.
Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) will unveil the Tejas Mark II with a heavier stand-off weapon capacity in the 75th year of India’s independence, in 2022, and the long-awaited indigenous fighter, which will be manufactured by the state-owned Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL), will go into production by 2025-2026
“The Defence Minister is scheduled to induct the Apache attack choppers into the Air Force officially in Pathankot on September 3. The first batch of choppers had arrived at the Hindan air base about three weeks ago at the Hindan airbase in an Antonov cargo plane,” defence officials told ANI here.
The target set by the department for 2019-20 is nearly 12 per cent higher than the production achieved in the previous financial year. In the financial year 2018-19, the department had produced equipment worth Rs 80,502 crore. Exports had accounted for Rs 10,745 crore worth of equipment in the financial year 2018-19.
The new work is based on tapping what is called the ‘Seebeck Effect’. It is a phenomenon in which temperature difference between two dissimilar electrical conductors or semiconductors produces a voltage difference between the substances. When heat is applied to one of the two conductors or semiconductors, heated electrons flow toward the cooler one. If the pair is connected through an electrical circuit, direct current flows through that circuit.
The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) on Tuesday handed over the design of Mobile Metallic Ramp (MMR) to the Indian Army at a ceremony held at DRDO Bhawan in the national capital. Secretary Department of Defence R&D and Chairman DRDO, G Satheesh Reddy handed over the design of MMR to Vice Chief of Army Staff, Lt Gen Devraj Anbu.
While telecom, start-up, energy and infra sectors attracted high-value deals from both strategic and financial investors, IT, pharma and banking sectors remained active pushing the deal volumes during the month.
