SOURCE: PTI

The deep tech startup SAP Aerospace of the India Institute of Technology (IIT) has won ‘Dare to Dream 4.0 innovation contest’ to develop engines for combat drones, officials on Friday said. Led by Dr Shanmugadas KP and graduates Ayush Divyansh and Preetam Jamod, the startup has emerged victorious in the open category of DRDO’s TDF Dare to Dream 4.0 Innovation Contest, an official spokesman said.

This prestigious win marks a significant milestone for SAP Aerospace and their groundbreaking work in the field of combat drone technology, he added.

SOURCE: PTI

Indian army has inducted the first-ever indigenous chip-based 4G mobile base station, which it procured from Bangalore-based firm Signaltron through the government e-marketplace portal, a top company official said.

Signaltron founder Himamshu Khasnis told PTI that the chip used in the Sahyadri LTE base stations has been developed by Signalchip. Earlier in 2010, Khasnis and his team founded a fabless semiconductor company Signalchip to make chips for 4G and 5G networks.

SOURCE: PTI

The Pakistani Parliament has firmly rejected a US congressional resolution calling for an investigation into alleged rigging in the February 2024 elections. Lawmakers in Islamabad have decried the move as an interference in the country’s internal affairs.

In a strongly worded statement, the National Assembly emphasized that the American request reflects an incomplete and incorrect understanding of Pakistan’s political and electoral processes. The resolution by the US Congress has been perceived as a challenge to Pakistan’s sovereignty and an unwarranted intrusion.

SOURCE: IANS

 Lt Gen Upendra Dwivedi, PVSM, AVSM, who is currently serving as the 46th Vice Chief of the Army Staff, with vast operational experience in dealing with China and Pakistan, has been appointed as the next Chief of the Army Staff with effect from the afternoon of June 30.

He will succeed General Manoj Pande, the 29th and the current Chief of the Army Staff of the Indian Army.

SOURCE: PTI

Gen Upendra Dwivedi on Sunday took charge as the 30th Chief of the Army Staff after incumbent Gen Manoj Pande retired from service.

Gen Dwivedi, who has vast operational experience along the frontiers with China and Pakistan, was serving as the Vice Chief of the Army. Before taking charge as the Vice Chief of the Army Staff on February 19, Gen Dwivedi was serving as the General Officer Commanding-in-Chief of Northern Command from 2022-2024.

SOURCE: PTI

Indian Navy Destroyer INS Ranvir arrived in Chattogram for a week-long goodwill visit. The visit of INS Ranvir to Chattogram, Bangladesh coincided with the visit of Admiral Dinesh K Tripathi, Chief of the Naval Staff, Indian Navy to Bangladesh, said the High Commission of India to Bangladesh in a social media post on ‘X’. 

INS Ranvir is a ‘Guided Missile Destroyer’ and forms part of the front line combatant fleet of the Indian Navy on the Eastern Seaboard.

SOURCE: UNI

The long wish of the Secunderabad Cantonment residents has finally been fulfilled as the Union Government notified the merger of the civil areas under the Cantonment Board with the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC). The Ministry of Defense issued orders to this effect, an official release from the CMs office said here on Saturday night. Telangana Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy took a special initiative to solve the long-pending merger of civil areas of the Cantonment Board with the GHMC.

The CM took up the matter with the Defense Minister every time during his recent Delhi tour. The Chief Minister also appealed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to solve the issue during the latter’s visit to Telangana on March 5. Following the CM’s regular appeal to the center, the central government decided to abolish all the cantonment boards, which have existed since British Colonial rule, and merge them into the municipalities.