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A licence agreement was exchanged between GSL and DRDO for transfer of technology in composite technology, especially resin film infusion technology (RFIT) and vacuum assisted resin transfer molding (VARTM). Nagpal also said that GSL has opened an office at Karwar with the aim of bagging contracts for repairs and mid-life upgrades for warships.
“A MiG-29K twin-seater aircraft, on a routine training sortie, encountered a flock of birds after taking off from INS Hansa Air Base at Dabolim Goa at about noon on 16 Nov 2019,” a navy statement released shortly after the incident said. The pilots observed that the left engine had flamed out and the right one had caught fire and an inability to save the aircraft on account of low height caused them to ditch the plane and bail out.
The keel-laying ceremony of two 50-tonne bollard pull tugs, ‘Balram’ and ‘Veeran’ out of a series of four, being built by Hindustan Shipyard Limited, Visakhapatnam for the Indian Navy, was conducted on November 15, a HSL press release said on Friday.
Agni-II has the capability to carry a nuclear warhead weighing up to one tonne. The 20 meters long missile has been designed and developed by the Advanced Systems Laboratory, a unit of the DRDO, in Hyderabad. The missile was part of the Integrated Guided Missile Development Program (IGMDP) and has appropriate on-board thrusters fitted on the second stage of the missile.
India has told the Russians to review the level of indigenisation to take the local content of the Ka-226Ts to be manufactured at Bengaluru-based Hindustan Aeronautics Limited to beyond the existing figure that stands at around 60%, the first official said.
The NDA government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi has repeatedly stressed that social activists who act as ‘Maoist sympathisers’ won’t be spared. In August 2018, the Pune police had arrested five persons from different cities including Varavara Rao, Sudha Bhardwaj, Gautam Navlakha, Vernon Gonsalves and Arun Ferreira in connection with a probe in the Bhima-Koregaon riots in January 2018. They were termed as ‘top urban Naxals’.
The government’s FACT Check module, which is to be initially manned by information service officers, will work on the four principles of find, assess, create and target (FACT), which involves round-the-clock monitoring of online news sources and publicly available social media posts. Since misleading information often finds traction through online influencers who are not bound by standards of ethics applicable to traditional media outlets, the team will also identify themes or stories that promote false and misleading information relating to the government and its agencies.
Informing about the event, Bharat Bhushan Babu, spokesperson, Ministry of Defence said, “The 200-metre long bridge between Jonai-Pasighat-Ranaghat-Roing road will provide connectivity between Dibang Valley and Siang to meet the long-pending demand of the people of Arunachal Pradesh as it would cut down the travel time from Pasighat to Roing by about five hours.”
Indian Army officials told ANI that she will be appointed as the military legal expert with the Government of Seychelles. Jyoti’s main role would be to update the Government of Seychelles officials on the defence and military act. Women will be inducted in a graded manner to eventually compromise 20 per cent of total Corps of Military Police.
Addressing the ‘Maitree Diwas’ celebrations here to boost civil-military friendship in the region bordering China, Singh said people living here are important to the country strategically. He noted that inhabitants of the Ladakh region had given the first information about Pakistan’s infiltration into Kargil.
