Six strategic bridges in Jammu & Kashmir have been developed by Border Roads Organisation (BRO) in a record time. These new bridges are in sensitive border areas close to the International Border (IB) and Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir.
Indian Army’s love for Gypsy doesn’t seem to depart. Even after the car’s discontinuation, the Indian Army continues to place orders for the Gypsy when required, and a waiver from the Ministry of Defence makes Maruti Suzuki fulfil the Indian Army’s order for the Gypsys. Maruti Suzuki delivered 718 units of the Gypsy to the Indian Army in June 2020, over a year after the car was taken off the shelves in the country.
The Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi dedicated to the Nation the Rewa Ultra Mega Solar Power project to the Nation via video conference today. It is Asia’s largest power project.
The HMI has for long used basic Ambu bags that climbers manually pump for oxygen during high-altitude sickness and breathlessness. The HMI’s innovation was a system that automatically presses the Ambu bag in a controlled manner for six to eight hours at a time. The idea came to Group Captain Kishan during the start of the pandemic in March.
The Union Cabinet chaired by the Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi today has given its approval for extending the contribution both 12% employees’ share and 12% employers’ share under Employees Provident Fund, totaling 24% for another 3 months from June to August, 2020, as part of the package announced by the Government under Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Yojana (PMGKY)/ Aatmanirbhar Bharat in the light of COVID-19, a Pandemic.
The US Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) have announced the launch of a partnership between the USAID-supported South Asia Group for Energy (SAGE) and MNRE’s National Technical Institutions.
Taking another step towards clean fuel, Indian Railways has successfully tested the first battery-operated Navdoot Engine. This engine has been built in the Jabalpur division of the railway and is named ‘Navdoot’. It works in dual mode.
Myanmar has decided to expedite India-backed infrastructure projects and widen security ties with India as it seeks to balance China’s expanding presence in the country in the backdrop of Beijing’s active cross-border support for rebel groups and push for early completion of BRI projects.
As tensions with China along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) rages on, the Indian Army has asked its personnel to delete 89 apps from their smartphones including Facebook, TikTok, Tinder, PUBG and Instagram to avoid leakage of information, ANI report quoted Indian Army sources as saying.
Operation Samudra Setu, which was launched on 05 May 2020 as part of the national effort to repatriate Indian citizens from overseas during the COVID-19 pandemic has culminated after successfully bringing 3,992 Indian citizens back to their homeland by sea. Indian Naval Ships Jalashwa (Landing Platform Dock), and Airavat, Shardul and Magar (Landing Ship Tanks) participated in this operation.
