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Making a strong pitch for the modernisation of the country’s armed forces and intelligence networks, Ajit Doval also called for “need-based” development of military technology that targeted specific requirements of the Army, Navy, Air Force and other defence services.
The helicopters handed over during a ceremony held at the military airport in Kabul. According to the Afghan Ministry of Defence, the occasion was also attended by Afghanistan’s acting defence minister Asadullah Khalid. These choppers are replacements for the four helicopters India gave to Afghanistan in 2015 and 2016.
The ship is a submarine tender, which provides consumables, electricity, water, ordnance, spare parts, medical, mail, and even legal services for submarines and their crews out at sea. The ship hosts 53 different specialised shops on-board. The Emory S Land is the lead ship of her class, a 645-foot vessel that displaces over 22,000 tons of seawater when fully loaded.
“Security agencies deployed along the international border have been given the clearance to shoot down drone crossing the boundary and flying at 1,000 feet and below,” government sources told news agency ANI. For any drone flying at heights above 1,000 feet, the final clearance will have to be taken from the agencies concerned as the flying object can be an aeroplane also, the sources said.
“We started designing and developing these rifles after ‘make in India’ came in the defence sector. We became one of the few manufacturers allowed to develop arms in the country. These two weapons are entirely made indigenously,” SSS Defence Managing Director (MD) Satish R Machani told ANI on Sunday.
Seeking pro-active participation of anti-terror wings of state police in exposing Pakistan’s involvement in terror acts, Doval suggested: “So many Pakistanis are arrested (by you)…there is no harm in giving out their identities and their plans to the media. Let the world know about it,” he said.
The four-day port of call to Tanzania on the eastern coast of Africa is part of Indian Navy’s overseas deployment programme aimed at building “bridges of friendship” with friendly nations. The ships – Tir, Sujata, Shardul and Indian Coast Guard Ship Sarathi – which belong to Indian Navy’s First Training Squadron will be deployed at the Zanzibar port from October 15-17 after spending a day at Dar-es-Salaam.
“The pilot project of the integrated perimeter security system (IPSS) at the Pathankot airbase will be completed by November-December. It will then be replicated in other bases,” says IAF chief Air Chief Marshal R K S Bhadauria. Top sources say IAF plans to install the IPSS, which is a “comprehensive multi-sensor, multi-layered, hi-tech surveillance and intrusion detection system”, at 23 “sensitive and high-risk” airbases. Concurrently, the force is also pushing the case for “electric smart power fences” for 19 other air stations.
Launched by the Army’s Corps of Electronics and Mechanical Engineers (EME) on September 1, Project Beehive, which seeks to achieve greater automation of the Corps and connect all its workshops to an integrated smart network with real-time data analytics capabilities, is expected to be up and running by October next year.
Most of the 127 persons arrested in connection with cases linked to terror organisation ISIS from across 14 states in the country were inspired by controversial Islamic preacher Zakir Naik, according to Inspector-General (IG) of National Investigation Agency, Alok Mittal.
