Defense

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’.

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.

The report will be submitted to the MHA, and if approved, action will be initiated to strengthen the existing Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB), or to create agencies to counter-narcotics and terror funding at large.

BEL General Manager (Machilipatnam unit) K.R.K. Ravi Prasad told The Hindu: “All the designs of the Nimmaluru unit have been prepared to complete the project and commission it within two years (by 2021). The construction activity has just begun on the site for the ₹300 crore project.”

According to NAF Director of Public Relations and Information, Air Commodore Ibikunle Daramola, the visit, which held from November 11 to 14, 2019, is at the instance of the Indian Government through an invitation extended by the CAS of the Indian Air Force (IAF), Air Chief Marshal Rakesh Singh Bhadauria. This partnership is in the area of capacity building and Research and Development (R&D) with a view to further boost NAF’s operational effectiveness in the fight against insurgency and other forms of criminality in the country.

“ACM Bhadauria became the first serving Air Chief to fly in HAL developed aircraft at the prototype stage as Chief of Air Force,” HAL said. He expressed his satisfaction with the aircraft performance and appreciated the design, project and flight test teams for having achieved the commendable progress, the statement said.

The advisory states that the popular social media platform Facebook has turned out to be a crucial source of collecting intelligence, which is why officers holding critical posts in the army must consider deactivating their accounts. The advisory also talks of inimical agencies possessing sophisticated tools for monitoring and analysing data on social media to derive intelligence, underscoring that those holding critical appointments are especially at risk