Army to buy special gloves for high altitude regions

SOURCE: TNN The army has initiated the process of procuring specialised leather gloves(two layered) for soldiers deployed in high altitude (HA) areas, a top defence source told TOI. The source said, “The ordnance branch of the army HQ has already initiated the process and request for information has also been sent to original equipment manufacturers. […]

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Oldest Plane, From 1940s, Flying Around Globe, Lands In Nagpur

SOURCE: PTI A March 1940-make Dacota C-43, the oldest aircraft in the world which is attempting a circumnavigation of the globe, touched down in Maharashtra’s Nagpur today. Also known as the DC-3 (Douglas DC-3), these planes had played a key role in India’s wars with Pakistan in 1947 and 1965. The present aircraft, owned by […]

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Motion Condemning Pakistan’s Occupation Of Gilgit-Baltistan Tabled In UK Parliament

SOURCE: PTI A motion has been tabled in the UK parliament condemning Pakistan’s “arbitrary” move to declare the Gilgit-Baltistan region, bordering Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, as its fifth province. Bob Blackman, an MP of the ruling Conservative Party, who regularly speaks out in support of the rights of Kashmiri Pandits in the House of Commons, tabled the […]

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Supreme Court Asks Centre, Jammu And Kashmir To Decide If Muslims Are Minority In State

SOURCE: PTI The Supreme Court today asked the Centre and the Jammu and Kashmir government to “sit together” and take a call on various issues including the question whether Muslims can be treated as minority in the state. A bench comprising Chief Justice J S Khehar and Justices D Y Chandrachud and S K Kaul […]

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Al Qaeda wants to create local leadership in South Asia, including India:US official

SOURCE: PTI The top Al Qaeda leadership has started nurturing terror units in South Asia, including in India, to give a local face to their outfit, according to a senior US defence official. “We believe that Al-Qaeda’s senior most leadership realises that their presence in Afghanistan and Pakistan has been under pressure for quite some […]

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Real BrahMos-ER with 800km Range to make a debut by mid of 2019.

SOURCE:  VISHAL KARPE / FOR MY TAKE / IDRW.ORG Earlier this month supersonic BrahMos cruise missile was tested for Extended Range of 450 km from the present 290 km successfully. Extended Range was achieved after Software limitation enforced on BrahMos was removed after India became member of MTCR regime last year, But BrahMos-ER with a […]

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Rotors fouled?

SOURCE: The Statesman Like all finance ministers, Arun Jaitley is adept at selective use of statistics, opinions etc to support his economic management. It is to be hoped that when wearing the “brass hat” of defence minister (even if temporarily) he is more factual than “political”. In that context it is incumbent on the government to […]

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