Srinagar: The intelligence agencies had warned that the soldiers deployed in the inaccessible regions are likely to face grenade attacks using drones. Against this background, the Indian Army will be providing training to the soldiers to counter the drone attacks. Indian Army has developed a special training module, to train the soldiers, deployed in Jammu-Kashmir. […]
New Delhi: The Union Government has permitted Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) to export the crude oil stored in the Mangaluru Strategic Oil Reserves. The government has made the policy flexible for the purpose. Although the first right on the oil will be of India in an emergency, ADNOC will be allowed to export […]
New Delhi: The construction work of the Zojila tunnel connecting Srinagar and Leh has commenced. Nitin Gadkari, Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways, pressed the button via videoconferencing and triggered the first blast for the construction work. With this tunnel, Srinagar and Leh will remain connected all around the year. Zojila pass, on the […]
New Delhi: – Internet services will be provided directly from the ISRO’s satellites to the villages at the border, Naxal-affected regions and the villages in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Gram Panchayats of five thousand villages from 15 states will be provided with this facility. The project will be activated under the ‘Bharat Net’ program, […]
New Delhi: – India that tested ten missiles like BrahMos, Prithvi, Shaurya, HSTDV, SMART, Rudram, in just five weeks, has become Atmanirbhar, in Missile manufacturing. The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has acquired the capability of producing any missile, required by the defence forces, indigenously. Dr G. Satheesh Reddy, Chairman DRDO, announced that a hypersonic missile, […]
New Delhi: India had taken a guarded stand regarding the expansion of QUAD cooperation, expecting a vitriolic reaction from China. But Stephen Biegun, US Deputy Secretary of State said that the time has come to expand the QUAD cooperation, by including like-minded countries, with common interests, who are concurring on free and open Indo-Pacific sector. At […]
New Delhi: Along with the United States, The United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, the members of the Five Eyes Alliance, India and Japan also have demanded backdoor access from the companies from the technology sector to their apps that use ‘End-to-End Encrypted Communication’. This demand is to enable the investigating agencies to read […]
Itanagar: Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) reactivated mobile services after two months in the Changlagam area, in Arunachal Pradesh, 80 kilometres from the Line of Actual Control. The services had been disrupted due to a technical fault in the VSAT satellite communication system. Reactivation of the mobile services in the Changlagam area becomes essential against the background of the […]
Srinagar: A post of the Pakistan Army was destroyed in the Indian retaliation against the ceasefire violation by Pakistan. It is also reported that the soldiers deployed at the base escaped from the post in view of the Indian action. But the Pakistan military has not revealed the damages suffered in the encounter to the […]
Islamabad: Pakistan air force chief expressed a concern, ‘India will launch an attack on Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (PoK), in the next few months, with Rafale fighter jets.’ It is reported that the fighter jets of the Pakistan air force are hovering over PoK, Karachi, Lahore, Islamabad and Rawalpindi, in preparation of retaliation against a possible […]