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The move has come within weeks of the Supreme Court’s ruling to grant permanent commission to women officers in the Navy. On 17 March, the court upheld a 2015 verdict of the Delhi High Court and outlawed gender discrimination towards women officers during the grant of permanent commission in the Indian Navy.
In a major development that could have a wider impact, ranging from accurate aiming on enemy targets to scientific research in space weather, scientists from the Indian Institute of Geomagnetism (IIG), have developed a global model to predict ionospheric electron density with larger data coverage. The ionosphere is a major source of error in GPS/GNSS-based positioning and navigation networks.
His presence is so strongly felt among the Indian Army soldiers that apparently the villagers and even the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) soldiers positioned across the Indo-Chinese border of Sikkim and Tibet are said to honour him.
Dassault Reliance Aerospace Ltd (DRAL) on Monday re-started operations at its Mihan special economic zone (SEZ) in Nagpur, in line with the government’s plan to lift the nationwide lockdown in a phased manner, according to a company statement. The company will operate with 25-30% of its total strength in the first phase, and plans to scale up operations as per the directives of the district administration and local authorities.
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Monday chaired a meeting on the implementation of the recommendations of Shekatkar Committee. The meeting was attended by Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), the three service chiefs and top Ministry of Defence (MoD) officials.
An Indian territory in Punjab lying across river Ravi along the Pakistan border, which had only seasonal connectivity with the rest of the country since 1947, finally got a permanent link in the form of a bridge on Monday, when tractor trolleys of farmers carrying wheat harvest crossed it for the first time.
“With the killing of four terrorists in the two recently conducted successful operations at Sopore and Kishtwar, the overall tally of militants killed by the Army in April has reached 13,” said a senior officer of the Northern Command. The senior officer informed that the army has neither lowered its guard nor allowed terrorists to achieve their sinister designs.
The men in olive green observed all precautions related to social distancing and personal hygiene during their journey from Karnataka, which began on April 17. The train and the equipment and belongings of the troops were thoroughly disinfected and every soldier screened at Jammu railway station.
Bridge on Daporijo River is a strategic link towards the LAC between India and China. All supplies, rations, constructional material and medicines pass over this bridge. Old Bridge developed cracks which could lead to a major catastrophe like on 26 Jul 1992 when a passenger bus fell off the bridge leaving no survivors. With the intervention of DGBR and CE Arunank expeditious sanctions were obtained from the MoD and Arunachal Government. The difficult and dangerous launch was completed in record time adhering to all COVID-19 precautions.
Working against all odds, Project Vijayak of Border Roads Organisation (BRO) achieved connectivity to remote areas in Kargil across formidable high passes in mid-April for the first time ever, Indian Army’s Northern Command said. The BRO meets the defence requirement towards infrastructure development in remote border areas in north and Northeastern states.
