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The TRAJAN is a French-designed artillery system developed by Nexter, now part of KNDS France, with a substantial Indian manufacturing role through Larsen & Toubro. Armenia’s induction of the system adds another modern 155 mm platform to an artillery inventory that already includes Indian-origin systems such as ATAGS and MArG 155.
Flight-tracking data showed the aircraft transmitting a general emergency code before briefly transmitting the transponder code associated with unlawful interference. The aircraft also underwent a rapid descent before stabilising and turning towards Saudi Arabia.
Indian experts will participate in the Moscow Startup Summit on September 29 and 30, 2026,
Ukraine has been seeking wider diplomatic support for restoring safer maritime movement in the Black Sea. During talks with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on September 24, Zelenskyy discussed Black Sea security and the restoration of the maritime export corridor.
There is, however, another part of the Russian oil trade that deserves attention whenever such demands are directed at India. Russian crude continues to travel through Ukrainian territory towards European consumers through the southern branch of the Druzhba pipeline.
No BrahMos missile was fired during the event. The importance of the exercise lay instead in rehearsing the sequence that must occur before a long-range coastal missile can be employed effectively against a moving ship at sea.
India’s Ambassador to Nepal, Naveen Srivastava, met school principal Rajendra Dawadi following the disaster and conveyed that India would support reconstruction of the school. In his official communication, the Ambassador praised Dawadi’s timely action, saying his intervention helped save more than 1,600 children before floodwaters overwhelmed the school.
The findings fit into a much wider pattern already documented by Google, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI and US authorities. In several of those earlier cases, investigators were able to connect influence operations more directly to Chinese state-linked organisations or individuals associated with Chinese law enforcement.
Cities such as Samarkand, Bukhara, Khiva and Tashkent offer a combination of Islamic architecture, Central Asian history, ancient trade routes and cultural links stretching back centuries. The removal of advance visa requirements could make short leisure trips and business visits substantially easier.
Air Marshal Jeetendra Mishra (Retd), who headed the IAF’s Western Air Command during Operation Sindoor, has said that India destroyed five Pakistani fighter aircraft in flight, while additional aircraft—including multiple F-16 fighters—were destroyed or damaged during precision strikes against Pakistani airbases.
