SOURCE: BR RECORDER

Azad Jammu & Kashmir Prime Minister Raja Muhammad Farooq Haider Khan said on Monday that the day of judgment of India and Israel were approaching fast due to systemic genocide and killings of innocent civilians in both the countries. In a statement issued here on Monday he said that Israel has intensified the reign of terror on Palestine and this state of affairs is leading to the logical elimination of Israel while on the other side India has been utilizing all its resources to crush the Kashmiri people’s legitimate struggle of self-determination.

The Prime Minister expressed the hope that the long night of terror and repressions would soon end and the dawn of freedom would rise soon.

SOURCE:  GEOSPATIAL

How do you assess the impact of China’s economic and military expansion, and its belligerence on the global security scenario; and how can we ensure peace and stability in the Indo-Pacific region?

China has taken umpteen steps in recent years to modernize its military and has improved its capabilities to exert influence far beyond its maritime or continental borders. Unprecedented economic growth over the last few decades has enabled China to secure overseas investment, resources and power. Debt diplomacy coupled with overt military belligerence in South and East China Seas, as well as Eastern Ladakh, have led to an environment of uncertainty and volatility in the region.

SOURCE: Clarion Energy

French multinational energy company EDF has submitted its offer to provide assistance in the construction of some six nuclear reactors in the Indian province of Maharashtra. The French binding techno-commercial offer has been submitted to the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL) and includes EDF providing the Indian nuclear electricity generator with engineering studies and equipment for the construction of the Jaitapur Nuclear Power Plant.

Once complete, the 9.6GWe Jaitapur Nuclear Power Plant would be the most powerful in the world, will generate up to 75TWh per year and cover the annual consumption of 70 million Indian households while avoiding the emission of 80 million tons of CO2 per year.

SOURCE: HT

India is observing the 47th anniversary of its first nuclear test in Rajasthan’s Pokhran on Tuesday. It made India a nuclear power. The test was codenamed ‘Smiling Buddha’ and conducted on May 18, 1974. The name was chosen because the test was conducted on Buddha Purnima that year. “The Buddha has finally smiled” was the message conveyed by Raja Ramanna, the director of India’s premier nuclear research institute Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) to Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.

It was the first confirmed nuclear test by a nation that was not a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC).

SOURCE: THE PIONEER

For several days the conflict between the Israelis and the Palestinians has been going on. We in India have seen on YouTube rockets being fired by Hamas, which are often intercepted by Israel’s Iron Dome, and the demolition of buildings in Gaza by the Israeli Air Force.

What do Indians think about all this?

SOURCE: THE WEEK

The Indian Navy on Monday handed over to the Kerala government a decommissioned fast attack craft at a function held at the Naval Base here. The ship would be taken to Alappuzha and placed as part of the Port Museum under the Alappuzha Heritage Project, a Defence press release said.   

The vessel was part of the headquarters, Western Naval Command and had participated in many coastal security and port defence missions along the coasts of Maharashtra and Gujarat.

SOURCE: PTI

A cricket club in the southern Israeli city of Beersheba has come to the rescue of several Indian researchers at the Ben-Gurion University in the Negev southern region, who had been struggling for a proper shelter while being under a complete siege with rockets raining over the country’s south during the past one week.

The Beersheba Cricket Club building, a two-storey structure close to the university, which is actually a shelter house with an underground floor, opened its door for the local residents immediately after rockets launched by Palestinian militants started to fall on Israel’s southern areas and also extended the kind gesture to Indian researchers at the university who were looking for proper protection during distressed times.

SOURCE: WION

The Indian Space Research Organization(ISRO) is inviting applications from entrepreneurs and industries to mass manufacture oxygen concentrators that were developed in-house.  It comes at a time when the country is having to import various kinds of medical equipment and oxygen cylinders to bolster the fight against COVID-19. 

ISRO’s Vikram Sarabhai Space Center(VSSC), which is the country’s lead centre for the development of rockets and related technologies has invited applications and shared the specifications of their product on their website.  The portable Medical Oxygen Concentrator (MOC) named “SHWAAS”, which can deliver over 95 per cent enriched level of oxygen to support patients with respiratory illness or who are on oxygen therapy. 

SOURCE:LIVEMINT

In June 2019, soon after he took charge as telecom minister, Ravi Shankar Prasad said that the government intended to start trials on fifth generation, or 5G, wireless networks within 100 days, heralding a revolution in telecom services.

Of course, that intention was spelled out in an entirely different era—before the world was convulsed by covid-19. In the meantime, a debate about the security and reliability of telecom equipment from China, with which India was locked in a tense military standoff through much of 2020, and other domestic preoccupations of the Narendra Modi government contributed to the delay.

SOURCE: NDTV

Three people were killed on Monday in an exchange of fire between security forces and Maoists in front of a newly built camp in Chhattisgarh’s Sukma district, police said. Police said villagers had been protesting the setting up of the camp for the last few days, allegedly under pressure from Maoists. Amid the protests, Maoists today opened fire at the camp.

“On Sunday night, they returned to their villages, but on Monday afternoon, some people, including some Maoists of the Jagargonda Area Committee, reached the camp and started firing. The security personnel retaliated, and the exchange of fire continued. After the firing stopped, we found three bodies which are yet to be identified,” P Sunderraj, Inspector General, Bastar, said.

SOURCE: PTI

Army personnel trekked for 24 hours to provide relief to a nomadic Bakarwal family stranded in the snow on the 11,000 feet high Naginsur ridge in Kishtwar district of Jammu and Kashmir, a defence spokesman said on Monday. Bashir Ahmed along with his wife, three children and a herd of animals was on their way to Navapanchchi in Marwah Valley from Kathua as part of the bi-annual migration in search of greener pastures when they were caught in the snow with a shortage of food, the spokesman said.

“The Army’s Gujjar Bakarwal check post at Bhandarkut in Chhatroo sub-division received a call for help from Ahmed and a rescue party immediately moved from Chingam post,” the spokesman said.