U.S. defence firms may gain from Pak standoff

SOURCE:  THE HINDU An expected increase in India’s defence spending due to the current stand-off with Pakistan has presented a “tremendous opportunity” to major U.S. companies including Boeing, Lockheed Martin and Raytheon to expand their Indian operations, according to the U.S.-India Business Council (USIBC) President Mukesh Aghi. “Due to the current situation, India’s spending in […]

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Simla agreement was a big mistake on Pakistan’s part: Shahbaz Sharif

SOURCE: PTI Terming the historic 1972 Simla agreement between India and Pakistan a “big mistake”, chief minister of Pakistan’s Punjab province Shahbaz Sharif has said it partially hurt the Kashmiris’ freedom struggle. “The Simla agreement was a big mistake [on the part of Islamabad] as it dampened the spirit of the Kashmiris fighting for their […]

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India joins league of US and Israel

SOURCE: ENS The surgical strike across the Line of Control (LoC) on seven terrorist launch pads in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir in the early hours of last Thursday by the Indian Army has established India in the league of the US and Israel, and also exploded the myth that nuke-armed rogue Pakistan cannot be dealt with through […]

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Integrated Theatre Commands: boon or bane for the Indian Military

SOURCE: Business-standard.com When one has lacked coordination & jointness for the better part of 70 years, the natural tendency is to overdo it. India’s new integrated theatre commands is a classic case of overdoing it to the point of abject foolishness. Obviously most of the defence media has been overwhelmingly positive about the idea of […]

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‘Training camps now shifted to crowded Pakistani towns’

SOURCE:  THE HINDU An internal report of the Home Ministry suggests that terror training camps in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) have been moved deeper inside Pakistan territory.The development comes a day after India announced that it had carried out surgical strikes across the LoC and destroyed seven terrorist launch pads. Central security agencies have informed the […]

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Surgical strike robs Pak of anti-India proxy war options

SOURCE: TNN Retaliating to India’s cross-LoC strike could be a knotty dilemma for Pakistan. An Uri-type attack carries the risk of serious escalation while a jihadi strike on civilians will draw attention to Pakistan’s terror links even as Kashmir seems to have fallen off the map. Though the possibility of a counterstrike looms large on the […]

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India’s surgical strike: An insider’s look at how the LoC operation was carried out

SOURCE: DNA INDIA It was a scene reminiscent from the past, where President Barack Obama stood with the top brass of the American military and political leadership, to watch the operation as Navy Seals shot and killed Osama bin Laden. Yes, something similar was palpable at the Indian Army’s war room on Thursday night, when the […]

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After surgical strikes, hackers ready for cyber attacks on Pakistan

SOURCE: ENS A day after Indian army carried out surgical strikes destroying ‘terror’ infrastructure in Pakistan, the National Cyber Safety and Security Standards claimed that its research team has cracked the official web gateway of Pakistan gov.pk gaining access into defence infrastructure and is on stand-by awaiting command to launch attack, if need be. Additional […]

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India may consider Iran’s proposal to develop Chabahar airport

SOURCE: PTI India may examine a proposal from Iran to develop airport at its strategic Chabahar port as part of comprehensive infrastructure development that includes rail-road connectivity to the port. The Chabahar port in the Sistan-Balochistan province on the energy-rich nation’s southern coast lies outside the Persian Gulf and is easily accessed from India’s western coast […]

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Indian diplomacy at work, Pakistan allies go silent on surgical strikes

SOURCE: HINDUSTAN TIMES India’s diplomatic encirclement of Pakistan appeared to bear fruit on Friday, with even Islamabad’s traditional allies refusing to take its side over New Delhi’s surgical strikes on militant shelters across the Line of Control, their de-facto border. While the United States, a long presence in Pakistan’s corner, hastened to underline the importance […]

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Uri Response – How Delhi built its case with Islamabad’s friends days before surgical strikes

SOURCE: TNN India’s preemptive strikes across the LoC were more than a military operation. The tightly-scripted action was to rework the framework of engagement withPakistan, while the overt acknowledgement was necessary for the domestic audience. The government laid out the ground in the preceding days, briefing key countries about the spike in infiltration and mounting […]

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Pak Chief Justice Anwar Zaheer Jamali Cancels Visit To India Due To Tension

SOURCE: PTI Chief Justice of Pakistan Anwar Zaheer Jamali has cancelled his visit to India next month, citing “present conditions”, media reports said today. Mr Jamali has refused to attend the global conference slated to be held in India from October 21-23, Radio Pakistan reported. In July, Indian High Commissioner Gautam Bambawale had personally invited […]

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Pak should take effective steps against terrorists: Russia backs India after surgical strike

SOURCE: DNA INDIA It seems like Pakistan is running out of friends fast. The latest to hit out is Russia whose foreign ministry blasted Pakistan in a strongly worded statement. Speaking about the LoC incident, the Russian Foreign Ministry put out a statement saying: “We are concerned with the aggravation lately of the situation along […]

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With Strikes, Modi Sets New Precedent For India In Dealing With Pak

SOURCE: NDTV India did well by having a surgical strike across the Line of Control and taking out terrorists who had gathered there to launch attacks against Indian citizens. For the first time, a government has stood up and said very clearly they will go in hot pursuit to areas where terrorists are gathered and take […]

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Indian BrahMos Makes Token Appearance At Armenia’s ADAS 2016

SOURCE: ADAS 16 PR The firm behind one of the world’s deadliest cruise missiles was in Manila this week to advertise their only product. In what appears to be a serious effort at exporting a world-class missile system, especially among countries near China, BrahMos Aerospace put on a lavish exhibit in their corner of ADAS 2016 located […]

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Hillary Clinton fears coup in Pakistan and apprehensions of nuclear suicide bombers

SOURCE: ECONOMIC TIMES Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton has expressed concern over the possibility of Pakistan’s nuclear weapons falling into the hands of jihadists, which she said was “a threatening scenario”, according to a media report. “Pakistan is running full speed to develop tactical nukes in their continuing hostility with India,” the former secretary of […]

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14 guns snatched from J-K cops this month

SOURCE: ENS No less than 14 service rifles have been snatched from policemen by Kashmiri militants in just this month in south Kashmir, which is at the heart of the ongoing unrest. Yet another weapon snatching was reported on Wednesday: suspected militants broke into the premises of a former legislator and took away an AK-47 and […]

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Defence Offsets Are Not Working. Foreign Companies Give Indian Vendors Low Tech Work

SOURCE: SWARAJYA MAG As a part of its new defence procurement policy adopted in 2005, the government introduced a clause for ‘defence offset’ in order to boost manufacturing capacity and technological capability of the local military complex. The offset clause binds foreign defence manufacturers to invest a portion of the total revenue in Indian defence firms. […]

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Mega launchers for ISRO soon

SOURCE: THE HINDU An advanced Indian mega space launcher that can deliver ten-tonne and heavier communication satellites to space and using a semi-cryogenic engine is likely to to power ISRO’s launchers by around 2018. That is the space agency’s next big space vehicle, having just achieved the GSLV for lifting 2,000-kg payloads. The agency is gearing […]

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Hafiz Saeed’s Friday sermon in Lahore; calls for jihad against India, says 1971 war will be avenged

SOURCE: FE Hafiz Saeed on Friday launched a terror rally in Lahore in which he called for ‘Jihad’ against India, according to a Times Now report. From requesting Pakistan to stay united in the matter of national defense to talking about avenging the 1971 war, he tweeted all on his Twitter handle (which is not verified […]

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Army’s Surgical Strikes Were Carefully Measured: American Think-Tank

SOURCE: PTI The Indian Army’s surgical strike inside Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir (PoK) against terrorists planning to infiltrate into India for terror activities was “carefully measured”, a top American think-tank said today, adding the onus for escalation lies purely on Pakistan. “This Indian response was indeed coming. Both as a signal to Pakistan and as reassurance for Indian […]

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Countrywide alert sounded, urban areas could be targetted by Pak based terror outfits

SOURCE: PTI The union Home Ministry on Friday issued a countrywide alert, asking state governments to exercise extra vigil. The alert was issued after an assessment by intelligence agencies that Pakistan based terror outfits might carry out attacks in in India during the festive seasons that started today as retaliation against Indian Army’s surgical strikes on […]

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Adnan Sami hails surgical strikes, gets flak from ‘outraged’ Pakistanis

SOURCE: TNN Singer Adnan Sami, who is of Pakistani-origin but is now an Indian citizen, has hailed the Indian Army for conducting surgical strikes+ on terror camps across the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir. On being trolled on Twitter by Pakistanis, he said their outburst clearly means they fail to distinguish between […]

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Surgical strikes effect: Pakistan fears India may now eliminate terror chiefs, asks them to lie low, says report

SOURCE: The Financial Express A day after India carried out surgical strikes on terror launch pads in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, it has emerged that Pakistan has asked the chiefs of terrorist organisations operating from its territory to lie low for the time being. It seems that Pakistan is fearing that the Indian army may now attempt to […]

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Hafiz Saeed threatens Zee News, says Pak forces will teach what real surgical strikes are

SOURCE: ZEE MEDIA Terror mastermind Jamaat-ud-Dawaah chief Hafiz Seed on Friday threatenedIndia two days after Indian para commandos conducted surgical strikes across the the Line of Control and dismantled tat least seven terror launch pads in the Pakistan Occupied Kashmir. Baffled with the Zee News coverage of the Indian army’s surgical strikes across the Line of […]

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For Surgical Strikes, Helicopters, Heavy Firing Used To Distract Pak

SOURCE: NDTV The commandos who went across the Line of Control for surgical strikes, fanned across 250 km of mountainous and forested territory to target seven terrorist “launch pads” or staging areas. They went up to three kilometres deep in Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir after trekking for nearly 10 hours and the strikes they launched were simultaneous. […]

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India’s surgical strikes will boost US efforts to rein Pak terror

SOURCE: TNN For over a quarter of a century, Pakistanhas waged an undeclared war against Indiain Jammu and Kashmir, using radical Islamic groups like the Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammed, to disrupt life across the LoC and attack Indian security forces. There have been occasional, small-scale actions to respond to such attacks. But India has abided by […]

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Revenge factor: How Ghatak platoons from units attacked in Uri helped commandos in surgical strike

SOURCE: INDIA TODAY When four Jaish-e-Mohammad terrorists attacked the Army’s 12th Brigade in Uri sector on September 18, as many as 19 Indian soldiers lost their lives. Sixteen of those soldiers belonged to 6 Bihar, while three belonged to 10 Dogra. Late on Wednesday, when Indian soldiers conducted surgical strikes on terror camps in Pakistan-occupied […]

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India’s surgical strikes: Pakistan buries slain terrorists to hide evidence, asks Masood Azhar to go mum

SOURCE: ZEE MEDIA Even though Pakistan has staunchly denied that Indian special forces carried out a surgical strike in Pakistan Occupied Kashmir, intelligence inputs suggested on Friday that Pakistani forces are hurriedly burying bodies of slain terrorists to erase evidence. As per exclusive details available with Zee Media, the slain terrorists – their number (as per […]

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India’s Space assets gave images for surgical strikes

SOURCE: IANS India’s eyes in the skies – family of remote sensing or earth observation satellites – is said to have given the necessary images to the armed forces to carry out its surgical strikes on terror camps across the Line of Control (LOC), officials said on Friday. The officials said the Cartosat series of […]

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Surgical Strikes Done, Here’s What India’s Planning Next To Corner Pakistan

SOURCE: NDTV Beyond Thursday’s raid by Indian special forces across the Line of Control, India is considering more economic and diplomatic measures to squeeze Pakistan, said sources. In a rare public acknowledgement, the army said yesterday that teams of elite troops crossed into Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, killing several terrorists who were to cross over and attack […]

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Pak TV Images Claiming Indian Casualties Are ‘Morphed, Fake’: Army Sources

SOURCE: NDTV The special op forces who crossed the Line of Control for surgical strikes on Wednesday night returned “with not one scratch,” top army forces have told NDTV, denying Pakstani media reports that eight soldiers were killed in the raids in Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir and one was captured alive. Only one soldier has “minor injuries” […]

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India will deploy Rafale jets carrying nukes against China, Pak: Chinese media

SOURCE: HINDUSTAN TIMES India will deploy the recently bought Rafale fighter aircraft capable of carrying tactical nuclear warheads near disputed regions with Pakistan and China as New Delhi continues to be the largest arms purchaser in the world, the Chinese state media predicted on Friday. The jets are capable of carrying tactical nuclear warheads, which […]

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Surgical strikes show just how badly Pakistan misunderstood Narendra Modi

SOURCE: FIRST POST “Jung bahut karli. Jung karke kya paya, na zameen mili na jannat paya (What has war yielded? Neither land nor heaven).” These words spoken firmly in the ear of Pakistani prime minister Nawaz Sharif and his brother Shahbaz at the Raiwind Palace — albeit not in quite as sophisticated and chaste Urdu […]

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All Attempts To Free Indian Soldier In Pakistan Captivity Being Made: Rajnath Singh

SOURCE: NDTV India will officially take up with Pakistan the release of a soldier the army says strayed into Pakistani territory “inadvertently” on Thursday and was captured. All attempts are being made to free 22-year-old soldier Chandu Babulal Chauhan from Pakistani captivity, Home Minister Rajnath Singh said on Friday.News that Chandu Chauhan from Maharashtra was […]

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Army’s surgical strikes across LoC?prove PM?Modi’s ability to spring surprises

SOURCE: HINDUSTAN TIMES Trust Prime Minister Narendra Modi to spring a surprise when you expect it the least. Just when it appeared the NDA government was exploring non-military response to the September 18 terror strike on the Uri army base, the armed forces launched “surgical strikes” on terror “launchpads”, or camps used to facilitate infiltration […]

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China concerned over its workers’ security after Baloch threat

SOURCE: PTI China today said it was highly concerned about the security of its workers involved in the USD 46 billion economic corridor passing through Pakistan’s troubled Balochistan province after a Baloch militant leader warned of attacks targeting the project. “China is highly concerned about the security of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CEPC). We appreciate great […]

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Pakistan: BLF chief Baloch says Indian help ‘welcome’

SOURCE: Reuters The elusive leader of a major armed group fighting for independence in Pakistan’s Balochistan has said he would welcome cash and other help from India. In his first video interview in five years, Allah Nazar Baloch, head of the Balochistan Liberation Front (BLF), also pledged further attacks on a Chinese economic corridor, parts of […]

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Indigenous airborne warning system set for induction

SOURCE:  THE HINDU The first of the two small surveillance aircraft carrying the first Indian airborne early warning system is slated to be inducted into the Air Force in about two months, it is reliably learnt.The DRDO has fitted its own airborne early warning and control system (AEW & CS) on a modified Embraer ERJ […]

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Fighter radar: Saab eyes tech transfer under Make in India

SOURCE: THE HINDU Swedish aerospace and defence major Saab Group is planning to introduce its latest fighter radar in India. It is also ready to offer full technology transfer under the Make in India programme. “Saab as a radar supplier will offer and transfer the highest technology level for the fighter jets,” said Lars Tossman, […]

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Double whammy for Pakistan; Iran fires mortars into Balochistan

SOURCE: INDIA TODAY It was a double whammy for Pakistan, as on a day when India carried out a surgical strike across the Line of Control, its western border came under attack by Iranian forces. Iran Border Guards opened fire at Iran-Pakistan border on Wednesday. The Iranian forces fired three mortars into Balochistan area of […]

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Surgical strikes: HAL on High Alert, Staff Leaves Cancelled , Multiple shifts to repair Aircrafts faster

SOURCE: TNN Defence PSU Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL), which maintains IAF’s fighter aircraft, has been put on high alert with compulsory overtime (no regular shifts) in place and engineers and technicians have been instructed to keep their bags ready for travel when required. HAL’s brass met its staff across units — Sukhoi, MiG, Mirage, Jaguar […]

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India’s surgical strikes on terror launch pads backed by US? Susan Rice-Ajit Doval talk hints so

SOURCE: FE Ahead of monitoring surgical strikes by Indian Army across the Line of Control on terror launch pads in Pakistan, India’s National Security Advisor Ajit Doval had a significant conversation with his US counterpart Susan E Rice on Wednesday. It is hard to imagine that the duo would not have talked about India’s decision […]

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War support: What India can expect from Russia

SOURCE: RUSSIA & INDIA REPORT International support can be a multiplier in any conflict. In the 1971 War, Russian support was a critical factor that allowed India to wrap up a quick and decisive victory. Moscow kept the western and Chinese hounds out of the fight so that the Indian military could do its job […]

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With strike across LoC, India calls Pakistan’s nuclear bluff

SOURCE: TNN Pakistan defence minister Mohammad Khwaja’s threat to use “tactical”nuclear weapons+ is not just a case of political hyperbole. The notion that nuclear weapons deter retaliation by the Indian Army while allowing Pakistan to send jihadis+ to carry out terror strikes in India is a deeply held view in the Pakistani establishment. The argument […]

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Panic, disbelief in Kashmir as India makes surgical strikes

SOURCE: IANS Panic, confusion and disbelief gripped Kashmir residents on Thursday as India said it carried out surgical strikes at terrorist launch pads across the Line of Control (LoC) inflicting heavy casualties on terrorists and their supporters. Reports from Uri sector in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district, where cross-border terrorist attack at an army camp on September […]

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‘Pakistan PM Nawaz Sharif and army chief Raheel Sharif need time to respond to India’s surgical strikes’

SOURCE: TNN Pakistani army described India’s surgical strikes across the Line of Control as an “illusion” created by Indian forces even as it admitted that two of its soldiers died in cross-LoC died in cross-LoC firing. Pakistan PM Nawaz Sharif accused India of “unprovoked and naked aggression”, not for the strikes which Pakistan claims never […]

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India to Roll Out Exclusive Repair Facility for Scorpene-Class Submarines

SOURCE: SPUTNIK Undeterred by its recent data leak controversy, the Indian government will go ahead with plans to set up an exclusive repair facility for Scorpene-class submarines, in what is being seen as a major morale booster for French shipbuilder DCNS. India will set up an exclusive repair facility for the soon-to-be-inducted Scorpene-class Submarine at […]

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Uran ‘terror scare’ turns out to be 12-year-old’s prank, police call off search for suspects

SOURCE: INDIA TODAY The schoolgirl who claimed to have seen five armed men near the Navy ammunition dump in Uran, has admitted to officials that it was a prank, according to multiple reports. The girl, a student of Uran Education Society, “confessed to her prank and apologised in writing.” She admitted to making up the […]

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I will show Nawaz Sharif how to respond to Modi, says Imran Khan

SOURCE: IANS Following Indian claims of “surgical strikes” at the terror launch pads in Pakistani Kashmir, Pakistan opposition party leader Imran Khan said he will show his Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif how to react to such “aggressions”. “Initially I had to give a message to Nawaz Sharif, but tomorrow I will send a message to Modi […]

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Nawaz Sharif may have implicated Pakistan as terrorist state with praise for militant from UN pulpit

SOURCE: TNN Pakistan’s decision to celebrate a self-confessed Kashmiri militant from the United Nations pulpit+ may comeback to haunt Islamabad. A US lawmaker+ who has proposed legislation seeking determination on Pakistan’s sponsorship of terrorism+ takes a dim view of it and could use it as evidence to press his case. “Disappointed to see the Pakistan+ […]

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That sinking feeling: Navy struggles to bridge its capability gaps

SOURCE: HINDUSTAN TIMES “Do we build a spa there?” asked a senior navy officer, pointing towards the empty bow gun deck on the pencil drawing of an Indian destroyer. The point he is trying to make is that no decision has been taken on guns to be fitted on 12 major warships being built in the […]

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Book Review : ‘Indian Army attempting military change in isolation’

SOURCE: ENS For all the rhetoric that has flowed for a decade and more on jointness, inter-operability and creating synergy between the three wings of the armed forces, the concepts have remained only on paper as the sole driver of change has largely been the Indian Army, leading to expected resistance from the other two services, […]

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Army rejects Pakistan report of 8 Indian soldiers killed but Confirms one Jawan inadvertently crossed LOC in Separate incident

SOURCE: TNN Indian Army on Thursday rejected as “false and baseless” reports in a section of Pakistani media that eight Indian soldiers were killed and one captured by Pakistani military in retaliatory fire. Indian Army sources said, “As regard (to the) report of killing of eight Indian Army personnel reported in sections of Pakistan media, […]

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Pak Media retracts Capture of Indian Soldier Story but maintains Indian Soldiers were killed

SOURCE: DAWN Soldiers from the Indian army were killed in the episode of firing across the Line of Control, security sources said. Additionally, in his show Capital Talk on Geo News, Hamid Mir said that 14 Indian soldiers were killed in two sectors. Defense analyst Major General (Retd) Ijaz Awan, who was on his show, […]

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Pakistan captures one Indian soldier, eight killed at LoC overnight : Pak Media

SOURCE: DAWN The Pakistan Army on Thursday captured an Indian army soldier and killed eight others in retaliation to India’s firing at the first line of defence at the Line of Control (LoC) at Tatta Pani, confirmed security sources. The capture and the casualties sustained occurred when the Indian army opened fire across the working […]

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How 25 Indian commandos crawled through enemy territory to kill 38 terrorists in PoK

SOURCE: INDIA TODAY After years of terror strikes supported by Pakistan, the Indian Army has hit back with a textbook surgical strike that killed 38 terrorists, 2 Pakistani soldiers, and destroyed five terror camps. India Today has got exclusive details of the inside story behind the surgical strikes.It was around midnight, when the Army’s Dhruv […]

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Surgical strikes across LoC: Pakistan summons Indian high commissioner

SOURCE: IANS  The Pakistan Foreign Office on Thursday summoned Indian High Commissioner Gautam Bambawale over the “unprovoked” cross-border firing by Indian Army in which two Pakistani soldiers were killed. According to Foreign Office sources, Pakistan “strongly” condemned the firing across the Line of Control, Geo TVreported. Foreign Secretary Aizaz Chaudhry handed over the protest note […]

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India briefs envoys of 25 countries on Army’s surgical strike across LoC

SOURCE: PTI India today briefed top envoys of 25 countries including the US, China, Russia, the UK and France after the Indian Army said it has carried a “surgical strikes” on seven terror launch pads across the LoC,inflicting “significant casualties” on terrorists preparing to infiltrate from Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK). Foreign Secretary S Jaishankar briefed the […]

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Army chief Gen Dalbir Singh monitored sergical strikes from ‘operations room’

SOURCE: IANS It is not yet clear when the army actually received “specific and credible” inputs about terrorists gathering at “launch pads” behind the Line of Control (LoC), but the plan to take these out was well in place by Wednesday — a day that saw a flurry of high-level activity involving the brass as well […]

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Bangladesh backs India’s surgical strikes in PoK, says it has full right to defend its sovereignty

SOURCE: PTI India has “all legal and globally accepted right” to respond to any attack on her sovereignty and territory, Bangladesh said on Thursday after Indian Army carried out surgical strikes against terror bases across the Line of Control but called for “restraint” from all sides. “India has got all legal, internationally accepted right to make […]

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Pakistan envoy Abdul Basit receives ‘threat call’ asking him to leave India

SOURCE:  ANI Pakistan High Commissioner in India Abdul Basit has reportedly received “threat calls” on Thursday, asking him to leave India. Quoting Pakistan High Commission sources, Geo News said the threatening calls were from an unknown number and the caller asked Basit that “it is better for you to return to your country”.This comes amid […]

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Surgical strikes: NC leader Mustafa Kamal claims India violated Pak’s sovereignty

SOURCE:  ANI Mustafa Kamal, a leader of the opposition National Conference party in Jammu andKashmir on Thursday said India has violated the sovereignty of Pakistan by allowing the army to conduct surgical strikes across the Line of Control. (LoC) “The Director General of Military Operations (DGMO) of our country has given a Press Conference in […]

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Post-surgical strike, villages from Punjab to Kashmir evacuated as govt prepares for all eventualities

SOURCE:  ZEE MEDIA Villages bordering Jammu and Kashmir and Punjab are being evacuated in view ofIndia carrying out surgical strikes on terror launch pads across the LoC. Villages in Pathankot and Attari sector and near International Border are being evacuated, as per ANI.As per reports, additional BSF troops have moved in these areas. Further, with six districts of […]

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4 hours, choppers and 38 kills: How India avenged the Uri attack

SOURCE: ET Nearly 10 days after the Uri attack that claimed 18 jawans, India carried outsurgical strikes in Pakistan Occupied Kashmir, inflicting heavy casualties on terrorists and ‘those protecting them” and indicating a change of stand on the rules of engagement on the disputed line of control. Indian DGMO Lt Gen Ranbir Singhannounced that Pakistan […]

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By Denying India’s Surgical Strikes, Here’s What Pakistan Wants: Experts

SOURCE: NDTV The Pakistani army has accused India of “fabrication of truth” after India revealed that it carried out  surgical strikes at three places in Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir where terrorists were placed to cross into Jammu and Kashmir. The strikes were launched last night based on “very specific and credible information that some terrorist units had […]

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India Has Proof Of Surgical Strikes, Huge Terrorist Casualties: Sources

SOURCE: NDTV The surgical strikes in Pakistan territory last night were carried out by India to address the “mass anger” among people after the terror attack at an army base in Uri earlier this month, said ministers who were present at the Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s review of security this morning. Sources who did not […]

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Pakistan PM Nawaz Sharif condemns India’s surgical strikes along LoC

SOURCE: ENS Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has condemned the surgical strikes conducted by the Indian Army along the LoC. News agency ANI quoted him as saying, “We condemn this attack, our desire for peace should not be interpreted as our weakness”. “We are ready for the safety and defence of our country,” said Nawaz […]

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Pak Army rubbishes Indian ‘surgical strikes’ claim as two Pakistani soldiers killed at LoC

SOURCE: DAWN At least two Pakistan Army soldiers were killed as Indian troops fired across the Line of Control in Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said on Thursday. The Pakistani military confirmed the deaths of its soldiers yet dismissed the Indian claim of ‘surgical strikes.’ “There had been cross border fire initiated […]

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Two Pakistani soldiers martyred in Indian forces’ unprovoked firing at LoC : Pakistani Media

SOURCE: DUNYA NEWS To further escalate the tensions between Pakistan and India, the Indian forces on Thursday violated the ceasefire agreement along the Line of Control (LoC) by opening unprovoked fire at different Pakistani sectors. Two Pakistani soldiers embraced martyrdom in the firing incidents, the Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR) reported.Indian forces targeted Bhimber, Hotspring, Kel, […]

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Breaking News : India conducted surgical strikes last night across LoC to safeguard our nation: Defence Ministry

SOURCE: EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE “India conducted surgical strikes last night across the LoC to safeguard our nation, the Defence Ministry said on Thursday. Significant casualties have been caused to terrorists and those trying to shield them. We don’t have a plan to further conduct such strikes. India has spoken to Pakistan,” DGMO Lt Gen Ranbir […]

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Global cost of India-Pakistan nuclear war: 21 million dead, ozone layer destroyed and much more

SOURCE: FIRST POST If India and Pakistan fought a war detonating 100 nuclear warheads (around half of their combined arsenal), each equivalent to a 15-kiloton Hiroshima bomb, more than 21 million people will be directly killed, about half the world’s protective ozone layer would be destroyed, and a “nuclear winter” would cripple the monsoons and […]

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Pakistan says India will ‘disintegrate’ when Kashmir is free

SOURCE: AP Pakistan’s defense minister on Wednesday said India will “disintegrate” when Kashmir gains independence, in a sign of mounting tensions between the nuclear-armed rivals. Khawaja Muhammad Asif told The Associated Press that Pakistan will continue to extend moral support to the people of the disputed Himalayan region, which is split between Pakistani and Indian control […]

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India Has An Edge In Aeronautics

SOURCE: BUSINESSWORLD Tejas — India’s advanced fighter — entered service in the Indian Air Force (IAF) on 1 July this year. Tejas is not an ordinary aircraft, but a fourth-plus generation fighter embodying very advanced technologies, like fly by wire systems, all digital cockpit, advanced composites, utility management systems, open systems avionics architecture, weapons management […]

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Uri fallout: DAC clears proposals worth Rs 1,900 crore, including electronic warfare system

SOURCE: INDIA TODAY In the aftermath of the Uri terror attack, the Defence Acquisition Council (DAC), chaired by Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar today cleared proposals worth Rs 1,900 crore (close to $3 billion), including proposal for an electronic warfare system (EWS) for low-intensity conflict in Jammu and Kashmir. According to an official, the EW system is […]

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Cryogenic gains for GSLV

SOURCE: FRONTLINE ISRO announces its arrival in the global satellite launch market with the successful flight of the GSLV-Mk II rocket with an indigenous cryogenic engine to put a 2,211-kg weather satellite into orbit. This success also gives an impetus to Chandrayaan-2, which will put a lander and a rover on the moon. THE bespectacled […]

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IAF and Army stalemate leaves nuclear weapons command body headless

SOURCE: ECONOMIC TIMES India’s Strategic Forces Command (SFC), the entity that manages the nation’s strategic and tactical nuclear weapons and decides the warheads’ targets, has been without a chief for almost a month. A stalemate between the Army and the Air Force over who should take over the SFC has pushed this worrisome situation at […]

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India To Take A Relook At Pak’s Most Favoured Nation Status Today

SOURCE: PTI India will today take a relook at the Most Favoured Nation (MFN) status granted to Pakistan including options like withdrawing it or filing a case in World Trade Organisation (WTO) against them. The decision to review the MFN by Prime Minister Narendra Modi comes in the wake of the Uri terror attack over […]

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India’s efforts to isolate Pakistan showing results in region: Experts

SOURCE: IANS India’s efforts to isolatePakistan on the issue of exporting terror have shown results in the South Asian region with three other countries pulling out of the scheduled Saarc meet in Islamabad, say experts, noting that India can accelerate its engagement with other regional forums such as Bimstec. India stepped up its efforts to mount […]

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Uri aftermath: Khawaja Asif’s threat to nuke India displays a Pakistani habit to play victim

SOURCE: FIRSTPOST Pakistan Defence Minister Khawaja Asif’s preposterous statement that the Uri attack was “a plan devised by India itself” is a familiar narrative that emanates from across the border after all major acts of terror. His rant falls into the larger pattern of global jihadists’ narrative they use to portray them as victims and […]

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Embraer deal: About $5.5 mn paid as kickbacks to a middleman based abroad, claim CBI sources

SOURCE: FE About $5.5 million was paid as kickbacks in Embraer deal to a middleman based abroad, PTI reported quoting Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) sources. Sources said that the CBI is now conducting a probe with foreign law enforcement agencies to ascertain the details of payment. Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar had sought a report […]

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How India can use economic ties as tactical weapon to disturb China-Pakistan bonhomie

SOURCE: FIRSTPOST Why does Pakistan resort to asymmetric war against India? It’s more cost-effective than conventional warfare. Why would India be reluctant to launch headlong into a conventional war against Pakistan? Again, it’s about costs. The gains for India would not be worth the investment in such a war. In modern wars, the consideration of […]

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Coast Guard should bolster security to thwart infiltration: Manohar Parrikar

SOURCE : PTI Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar today asked the Coast Guard to “bolster” coastal security mechanism by increasing patrolling to thwart any infiltration bid by anti-national elements through sea. The coastal security should be strengthened considering the current security scenario, he said.Speaking at the 35th Coast Guard Commanders Conference here, Parrikar also promised all […]

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World Bank ‘commits’ to fulfil obligations under Indus Waters Treaty: Pakistan

SOURCE : PTI The World Bank has committed itself to “timely fulfilling its obligations” under the Indus Waters Treaty after Islamabad approached the international lender amid reports that India may revoke the 56-year-old deal, Pakistan claimed on Wednesday. A Pakistani delegation led by the attorney general of Pakistan, Ashtar Ausaf Ali, met with senior officials of […]

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‘Jadoo ki Jhappi’ key to ‘calm down’ South Kashmir: Senior Army official

SOURCE : PTI Blending its Operation ‘Calm Down’ with ‘Jadoo ki Jhappi’ (magical hug), Army is now foraying into the interiors of South Kashmir, giving semblance of law and order and building up confidence among the locals to open their establishments which have been shut for nearly three months. At the break of dawn, Colonel […]

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SC allows marine Latorre to stay back in Italy till decision is taken

SOURCE : PTI The Supreme Court today allowed Massimiliano Latorre, the second Italian marine accused of killing two Indian fishermen off the Kerala coast in 2012, to remain in his country till the international arbitral tribunal decided the jurisdictional issue. The apex court said all the conditions, which were imposed on the other marine, Salvatore […]

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India to speed up hydropower building on rivers flowing into Pakistan

SOURCE: REUTERS India will accelerate its building of new hydropower plants along three rivers that flow into Pakistan, a source familiar with the plan said on Monday, in a move likely to aggravate already tense relations with its neighbour a week after an attack on an Indian army base. Disagreements over how to share the waters […]

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SAARC Summit: Day After Boycott, Pak Insists It Will Go Ahead With Event

SOURCE : NDTV A day after India and three other member nations decided to boycott SAARC summit in Islamabad, Pakistan today insisted that it will go ahead and host the event in November. Foreign Office Spokesperson Nafees Zakaria said Pakistan will host the 19th South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation summit in November, Radio Pakistan […]

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Tejas SP-3 maiden flight successful, all eyes on Hindon

SOURCE:Mathrubhumi The third series production (SP-3) variant of Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) Tejas had its first flight in Bangalore on Wednesday. The flight was piloted by Air Commodore K A Muthanna (Retd), a veteran who has been associated with the project for a while now. According to Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL) sources, the first flight lasted for […]

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Rafale jets deal will do little to arrest the free fall in IAF’s strength

SOURCE : HINDUSTAN TIMES Initial euphoria over the culmination of a Euro 7.8-billion agreement for 36 Rafale fighter planes has given way to accusations that India has inked an expensive deal that falls short of meeting the expectations of its air force. Back in 2001, the Indian Air Force (IAF) sought at least 126 jets […]

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Army grappling with arms shortage, delays in acquisition of weapons

SOURCE: ET India’s combat effectiveness is less than it should be, a fact that needs to be highlighted especially as the government reconsiders its Pakistan policy. ET spoke to a number of serving and retired officers in the armed forces and experts with defence research backgrounds. They chose to speak off the record. The army […]

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India responsible with its nuclear technology: US Defence Secretary Ashton Carter

SOURCE: PTI India has generally shown responsible behaviour with nuclear technology while Pakistan’s history of nuclear weapons is entangled in tensions, a top US official has said. “The landscape of nuclear weapons have changed in the last 25 years,” US Defence Secretary Ashton Carter said yesterday in his remarks on “Sustaining Nuclear Deterrence” at Minot Air […]

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Row with India no reason to pull out troops from Af front: Pak army

SOURCE: TNN Despite the mounting tensions on Pakistan’s eastern border, withIndia, the country’s military has ruled out any withdrawal of troops from the western border, along Afghanistan. Pakistan army spokesperson Lt. Gen. Asim Saleem Bajwa said on Tuesday there was no need to withdraw or reduce the strength of troops on the western border on account […]

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India repealing MFN status will be humiliating for Pakistan: Former FS

SOURCE: ANI Former foreign secretary Lalit Mansingh on Wednesday said that India withdrawing Most Favored Nation (MFN) from Pakistan will be a very big humiliation for Islamabad. Singh said by repealing MFN status, India is trying to pressurize Pakistan.“This is part of India’s effort to put pressure on Pakistan through political diplomatic means. It doesn’t […]

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As Pakistan Army Chief’s Tenure Nears End, Nawaz Sharif Faces Key Choice

SOURCE: REUTERS Pakistan’s Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif faces a key choice in the coming weeks about who should run the country’s military, one that will have a major influence on Pakistan’s often strained relationships with the United States and India. With Chief of Army Staff General Raheel Sharif saying he will step down when his […]

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Government working on sensors to catch infiltrators under water

SOURCE: ENS The government is pumping around Rs 1,000 crore in a multi-layered security infrastructure to plug cross-border infiltration on the western front. Not just on land but under water, too. An indigenous sensor technology that can detect infiltrators under water will be part of an anti-infiltration technical grid that will also include laser walls, […]

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China reacts guardedly to Indus Water Treaty talks suspension, says ‘hope two nations properly address disputes’

SOURCE: PTI China on Monday reacted guardedly to India’s decision to suspend talks withPakistan under Indus Water Treaty, saying it hopes the two countries can “properly” address disputes and improve ties through dialogue and consultation. “As a friendly neighbour to both India and Pakistan, China hopes that India and Pakistancan properly address disputes and improve […]

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Pakistan bars low-flying aircraft over Karachi airspace

SOURCE: TNN Amid heightening tensions with India, Pakistan has barred low flying aircraft over its Karachi airspace — which is a stone’s throw from the international border at Gujarat and Rajasthan — for a week up to next Monday. Pakistan on Monday night issued a notice to airmen (Notam) that some segments of international air traffic […]

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Kashmir is ours, hope message is loud and clear: India to Pakistan

SOURCE: IANS In a sharp rebuttal to Pakistan, India said at the UN that it hoped the “message is loud and clear” that Kashmir is an integral part of India and will always remain so. India’s First Secretary in the Indian Mission to the UN Eenam Gambhir on Monday evening again delivered a short and cutting […]

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Netaji’s daughter wants his ashes returned to India: daily

SOURCE: PTI The only child of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose wants to bring her late father’s ashes back to India, according to one of Japan’s leading newspapers. Anita Bose Pfaff, a professor ofeconomics based in Germany, told ‘Yomiuri Shimbun’ daily this week that she hopes the debate around the circumstances of the freedom fighter’s death can […]

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New Anti-Maoist group a different version of Salwa Judum: CPI (Maoist)

SOURCE: THE HINDU The outlawed Communist Party of India (Maoist) has termed the recently formed anti-Maoist group ‘the Action Group for National Integrity’ (AGNI) as a different version of the anti-Maoist militia Salwa Judum, which was banned by the Supreme Court in 2011. In a press release issued by Vikalp, the spokesperson of the CPI […]

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China’s Hold On Masood Azhar’s United Nations Terror Listing To Lapse Soon

SOURCE: PTI The technical hold imposed by China on India’s bid to get Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) chief Masood Azhar designated as a terrorist by the United Nations is going to end in the next 10 days – which means that India’s bid could stand passed automatically, unless Beijing objects again. In March this year, China – […]

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The Russian bull in South Asia shop

SOURCE: THE MINT It is no exaggeration to state that Russia—previously, the Soviet Union—has been India’s most reliable partner post-Independence. But a gradual shift has been underway for the past few years. Russia’s decision to send a mechanized infantry unit of its southern military command for joint military exercises with Pakistani troops is part of […]

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Huge Cache Of Arms Seized From ‘Natural Terrorist Hideout’ In Kashmir’s Doda

SOURCE : PTI Security forces today busted a terrorist hideout and seized a huge cache of arms and ammunition from a forest area in Doda district of Jammu and Kashmir. On a tip-off, a search operation was launched in the Linga Manjmi area in the district and a “natural terrorist hideout” was located, a police spokesman […]

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Pakistan counters SAARC snub, claims ‘world knows it’s India financing terrorism’

SOURCE: ENS In response to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s decision to skip November’s SAARC Summit meeting in Islamabad, Pakistan claimed that they haven’t received any official communication from the Indian side, but termed the announcement as unfortunate. Taking note of Minister of External Affairs spokesperson Vikas Swarup’s tweet announcing the same, Pakistan said it is committed […]

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China remains India’s primary security challenge: UK report

SOURCE: PTI China remains India’s primary security challenge because of its assertiveness on the border dispute, a report by a think-tank in the UK said today. The ‘Strategic Survey 2016: The Annual Review of World Affairs’ by the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) said India’s relations with Pakistan and Nepal had deteriorated in the past […]

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Kashmiri politicians seek compensation for losses due to Indus Waters Treaty

SOURCE: HINDUSTAN TIMES Jammu and Kashmir politicians are seeking compensation for losses caused by the India-Pakistan Indus Waters Treaty that has robbed the state of its huge hydro-power potential, estimated to be over 25,000 MW. They say the 1960 river water-sharing agreement had given a raw deal to the impoverished and industrially-backward state and needed a […]

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IAF rules out poor maintenance for AN-32 disappearance

SOURCE: ENS Indian Airforce has ruled out poor maintenance as the cause for the disappearance of AN-32 aircraft on July 22 along with 29 crew. Air Marshal Pankaj Aneja, air officer commander-in-chief, Maintenance Command, told reporters here that investigations into the missing aircraft have not cited anything on poor maintenance. On his maiden visit to […]

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After India, Bangladesh, Afghanistan also pull out of SAARC summit in Pak

SOURCE: PTI After India decided to pull out of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) summit in Pakistan on Tuesday, Bangladesh, Afghanistan and Bhutan have also followed suit. According to reports, in its communication to the current SAARC chair, Nepal, Bangladesh said, “The growing interference in the internal affairs of Bangladesh by one […]

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Reliance Defence one of only 2 firms selected to build Submarines under Project-75I: Anil Ambani

SOURCE:  NEW KERALA Reliance Defence is one of the only two companies which qualified for an order from the Defence Ministry for six submarines worth more than Rs 60,000 crore, as part of India’s submarines programme, parent firm Reliance Infrastructure said on Tuesday. “We are one among two companies that can be part of warships […]

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Drones used in joint Russian-Indian military drills

SOURCE: NNI Russian and Indian motorized units have used unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) during joint military drills in Russia’s Far Eastern Primorsky Territory, a Russian Eastern Military District (EMD) spokesman has said. During the drills, EMD units and Indian Armed Forces used Russian UAVs “Orlan-10” to locate illegal armed groups, said the district’s spokesman Vladimir Matveyev. […]

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Russia Supplies Indian Navy With Over 100 Engines for MiG-29 Fighter Jets

SOURCE: SPUTNIK Russia’s United Engine Corporation has delivered over 100 turbojet engines for the Mikoyan MiG-29 (NATO reporting name Fulcrum) fighter aircraft used by the Indian Navy, the UEC said in a press release issued on Tuesday. he RD-33MK turbojet engine is a modernized modification of the basic RD-33 engine installed on all versions of famous […]

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Once again, Army starts global hunt for a new-generation assault rifle

SOURCE: TNN India re-launched on Tuesday its global hunt for new-generation assault rifles after similar attempts over the last decade failed due to unrealistic technical requirements and whiff of corruption, interspersed by debates on whether the gun should “kill” or merely “wound” adversaries. The project is going to be a mega one, with the Army […]

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Defence contracts, equipment exports on RInfra’s radar

SOURCE: DNA INDIA Reliance Infrastructure (RInfra) will soon be signing a contract worth around Rs 1000 Cr with the Indian Coast Guard for manufacturing of fast patrol vessels, disclosed Chairman Anil Ambani during the company’s annual general meeting (AGM) which was held in Mumbai on Tuesday. The company also plans to bid for contracts to make […]

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New Nuclear Biological Chemical Training Facility to come up at INS Shivaji in Pune

SOURCE: ENS INDIAN Navy’s premier technical training establishment, INS Shivaji, located in Lonavla near Pune, is set to get a state-of-the-art Nuclear Biological Chemical (NBC) Training Facility, which will house a modern NBC emergency simulator and sophisticated laboratories for preparation of real time situations. INS Shivaji, established as HMIS Shivaji in 1945 as a Naval […]

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BSF Seeks Air Wing Power

SOURCE: PUNE MIRRIOR The Border Security Force has once against reinforced its demand for immediate expansion of its air wing and making it an autonomous body on lines of coast guard so that it works under operational control of BSF officials rather than MHA as is the case at present. “Issue of evolving BSF Air Wing […]

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NASA, European Space Agency to use SCATSAT-1 weather satellite’s data: ISRO

SOURCE: BGR The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) had put India’s SCATSAT-1 weather satellite into orbit on Monday. ISRO said that the data generated by the weather satellite will be used by international space agencies including NASA and European Space Agency (ESA). According to ISRO, the SCATSAT-1 mission is a global one and not just for […]

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Isro’s longest launch got thrust from stop and start of engine

SOURCE: TNN When India’s PSLV-C35, carrying eight satellites, placed weather satellite Scatsat-1 in the polar synchronous orbit17 minutes after lift-off fromSriharikota, both the satellite and the rocket began to circle the earth. About 66 minutes later, the rocket’s fourth-stage engine was reignited and shut down for about 20 seconds, as a preparation to switching orbits and […]

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Indus Water Treaty: Restless Pakistan approaches ICJ fearing unilateral revocation from India

SOURCE: INDIA TV NEWS Pakistan on Tuesday approached the International Court of Justice over implementation of the Indus Waters Treaty, with senior Pakistani officials taking up the matter with the World Bank. A delegation led by the Attorney General for Pakistan, Ashtar Ausaf Ali, met senior officials of the World Bank at the World Bank Headquarters […]

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Sushma Swaraj’s striking UN speech drove a rapier through Pakistan

SOURCE: FIRSTPOST Terrorism remains a global scourge despite effecting sweeping change in mindsets and causing a massive drain on human capital and finances because it successfully inhabits the gap in strategic interests of countries. And because most democracies — not the so-called ones like Pakistan — work within a domestic or international legal framework, they cannot tackle […]

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India Opting Out Of Indus Waters Treaty Would Be ‘Act Of War’, Says Pak’s Sartaj Aziz

SOURCE: PTI A day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi warned “blood and water cannot flow together,” Pakistan has declared that India cannot opt out “unilaterally” from a key water-sharing agreement, an option that India has hinted it may consider in retaliation for the massive terror attack at an army base in Uri earlier this month. […]

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India Gives Pak Proof On Uri Attack, Names Terrorist, Handlers And Guides

SOURCE: PTI Proof that the terrorists who attacked an army base in Uri came over from Pakistan was presented today in Delhi to Pakistani envoy Abdul Basit. The government said that two men arrested with the help of villagers have said they belong to Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir and served as “guides” to help the four terrorists […]

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From Saeed to Salahuddin, India should put a bounty on terrorists in Pakistan: Ex-RAW officer

SOURCE: INDIA TODAY As new information suggests Jaish-e-Mohammad’s (JeM) Masood Azhar may to be the mastermind behind the Uri terror attack, an ex-Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) officer has suggested that India should put a bounty on its most-wanted terrorists, even if they are in Pakistan. Writing for DailyO, RK Yadav said that the bounty […]

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India talks terror with China amid offensive against Pakistan

SOURCE: HINDUSTAN TIMES India and China held their first bilateral dialogue on counter-terrorism and security in Beijing on Tuesday against the backdrop of New Delhi’s aggressive global campaign against Pakistan for using terror as an instrument of state policy. An Indian delegation headed by RN Ravi, chairperson of the Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC), met senior Chinese […]

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Indo-US military exercise Yudh Abhyas a great success: Army

SOURCE: PTI A two-week long joint Indo-US military exercise, focusing on counter insurgency and anti-terror operations, in Uttarakhand’s Chaubattia forest has been very successful, the Army said today. The exercise ‘Yudh Abhyas – 2016’, which concluded today, was carried out as part of efforts by both the strategic partners to enhance overall defence cooperation. The exercise […]

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Pathankot on high alert after ‘suspicious men’ spotted

SOURCE: Tribune News Service Punjab Police put Pathankot on high alert and launched a search operation on the Pathankot-Dalhousie road on Tuesday after they received reports of some “suspicious-looking men” lurking near a private school close to the bypass. Some 4,000 security men, including the Punjab Police’s SWAT team, searched the area. Police said they […]

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RIDICULOUS! Pakistan Defence Minister? now calls Uri terror attack ‘self-generated’ by India

SOURCE: ZEE MEDIA A day after External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj made a strong pitch at theUnited Nations to isolate nations who speak the language of terrorism, it was reported on Wednesday that Pakistan Defence Minister Khawaja M Asif, in what many would call bizarre, accused India of being involved in the many terror attacks that have plagued his country for […]

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You have to take both Kashmir and Bihar, or nothing:?Katju to Pakistan

SOURCE: HINDUSTAN TIMES Former Supreme Court judge Markandey Katju’s recent comment apparently denigrating Bihar has triggered a controversy, with some political leaders on Tuesday terming it a fit case of sedition and calling for his arrest. Katju posted a sarcastic post on social media on Sunday, suggesting that Pakistan could get Kashmir if it agrees to […]

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India to review ‘Most Favoured Nation’ status to Pakistan

SOURCE: IANS Tightening the screws on Pakistan further, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has convened a meeting on Thursday to review the Most Favoured Nation status to the neighbour, sources said here. The meeting will be attended by senior officials, including those from the External Affairs and Commerce ministries. The meeting follows India’s decision on Monday to revisit […]

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Stone pelters in Kashmir target civilians; woman dead, 2 injured

SOURCE: PTI A woman was today left dead and two persons were injured as stone pelters targeted vehicles which ventured out defying the diktat of separatists.Two sisters, Fozia (20) and Nadia (18), were hit by an SUV (sports utility vehicle) that was reversing after it came under stone pelting near Rogan Gali at Parimpora area […]

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Russian weapons that India could deploy in war

SOURCE: RUSSIA & INDIA REPORT The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting, wrote Sun Tzu. Social media is abuzz with calls for retaliatory strikes on Pakistan after the Uri terrorist attack which left 18 Indian Army soldiers dead, but the wiser policy would be to wait for the neighbouring country’s […]

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Rafale deal: Is it really an “exorbitant deal” as claimed by “experts”

SOURCE: OPINDIA Last week, the Union cabinet cleared the long-awaited purchase of 36 Rafale fighter jets from Dassault Aviation. With this Rs 58000 crore deal, the nearly two-decade-long Medium Multi-Role Combat Aircraft (MMRCA) saga finally comes to an end. All 36 planes will be delivered to India in a span of 66 months. The deal was […]

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Why India has everything to gain if third party mediates with Pakistan

SOURCE: HINDUSTAN TIMES As the government reviews the Indus Water treaty , it would do well to remember that the water sharing arrangement and the Rann of Kutch agreements that have both stood the test of time and wars, were both negotiated by a third party. While the World Bank helped India and Pakistan with […]

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After Uri, India should expeditiously set up the central counter-terrorism body

SOURCE: FIRSTPOST ‘Hot pursuit’ in Pakistani territory. Special Forces operations to target Hafiz Saeed and Masood Azhar. Cancel Indus Water Treaty with Pakistan. ‘Name and shame’ Pakistan at the United Nations. Threaten Pakistani actors working in Bollywood to leave India or face the consequences. Since the 18 September Uri terrorist attack, the Indian government and […]

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PoK resident: We live in subjugation of Pakistan

SOURCE: PTI There is no freedom in ‘Azad Kashmir’ (PoK) and people there are living in “subjugation” of Pakistan while people on the Indian side of Jammu and Kashmir are leading happy and prosperous lives, a resident of Pakistan- occupied Kashmir said here today. Haji Fazal Hussain, who arrived here from Rawalakot in PoK by […]

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Chinese troops entered 45 km inside India, claimed territory as their own

SOURCE: PTI After Ladakh sector, Chinese troops came 45 km inside Indian territory in a remote area of Arunachal Pradesh earlier this month and built shelters to claim that the territory belonged to them, according to reports from the area. Initial reports from Anjaw district said more than 40 Chinese troops set up a temporary […]

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IAF airbases along western front on high alert, hold major air defence exercise

SOURCE: TNN IAF’s premier operational command along the western front has gone on a high alert with a major exercise across all its 18 airbases and other installations from Srinagar to Bikaner, which comes amid heightened tensions with Pakistan in the aftermath of the terror attack on the Army camp in Uri. The primary objective […]

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