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14 AAI Airports Now Equipped with Ambulifts to Facilitate Flyers with Reduced Mobility

To facilitate passengers with reduced mobility, Divyang passenger on wheel chair and passenger on stretchers, AAI has procured 20 ambulifts for the airports which are having scheduled flight operations of Code C & other advanced level aircraft but does not have aerobridge facilities. The Ambulift has been manufactured indigenously under the ‘Make in India’ policy.

20th India-France Joint Staff talks held in Paris

The 20th edition of India-France Joint Staff talks was held in Paris, France on April 12-13, 2022. The meeting was co-chaired by Assistant Chief of Integrated Staff, Int-C (Military Cooperation), Headquarters, Integrated Defence Staff (HQ IDS) Air Vice Marshal B Manikantan and Head of Bilateral Cooperation South/Staff HQ Brigadier General Eric Peltier.

Cabinet Approves Signing of a MoU between India and Japan in the Area of Decentralized Domestic Wastewater Management

The Union Cabinet chaired by the Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi, on Thursday has given its ex-post facto approval for a Memorandum of Cooperation (MoC) signed between the Department of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation (DoWR, RD&GR), Ministry of Jal Shakti and The Ministry of the Environment of Japan in the areas of Decentralized Domestic Waste Water Management.

India Plans to Develop Combat UGV Based on Arjun Tank

The DRDO publication said the proposed combat UGV will be fitted, like the Arjun MBT, with a 120 mm main gun as its primary weapon. It will operate an ‘Indigenous Geographic Information System’ (INDIGIS) that will provide the UGV operator a “visual perspective” of the platform’s location and operational terrain.

Chinook Sets Record with Longest Sortie

A CH-47F (I) Chinook helicopter of the Indian Air Force on Monday set a record by flying the longest, non-stop chopper sortie in India, with the operation training task requiring it to fly from Chandigarh to Jorhat, officials familiar with the development said.