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SOURCE: IANS

External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar will undertake an official visit to France, the European Union, and Belgium from June 8 to 14 to deepen India’s strategic partnerships and explore cooperation across a broad spectrum of sectors, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) announced.

The visit aims to build on existing ties and strengthen India’s engagement with key European partners. In Paris and Marseille, Jaishankar will hold bilateral discussions with Jean-Noel Barrot, the French Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs. His engagements in France will also include meetings with the senior leadership, think tanks, and media representatives.

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SOURCE: PTI

A critically-ill army personnel was airlifted from Kargil in an IAF’s An-32 on Saturday, using the transport aircraft at the “edge of its performance envelope”, officials said. High altitude and extreme temperatures make Kargil in Ladakh Union Territory, a formidable challenge for transport operations during summers, they said.

An IAF official said the critically-ill man was airlifted in an An-32 aircraft from Kargil to Command Hospital, Chandimandir in the morning. A military cantonment is located in Chandimandir in Haryana.

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SOURCE: IANS

Congress leader Shashi Tharoor has sharply criticised Pakistan for its treatment of Dr Shakil Afridi, the physician who helped the US locate and eliminate Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden responding to a post by US Congressman Brad Sherman who urged a visiting Pakistan to press for Dr Afridi’s release.

Taking to socila media platform X, Sherman wrote,”I urged the Pakistani delegation to relay to their government the need to free Dr. Shakil Afridi, who continues to languish in prison for helping the United States kill Osama Bin Laden. Freeing Dr. Afridi represents an important step in bringing closure for victims of 9/11.”

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SOURCE: IANS

Radical Meitei outfit, Arambai Tenggol (AT) member Kanan Singh was arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) from Imphal Airport on Sunday, an agency statement said. The CBI statement said that Singh was involved in various criminal activities related to Manipur violence in 2023. The information related to his arrest has been given to his family members.

The central agency is investigating Manipur violence cases as per the direction of the Supreme Court, and the trials of these cases have been shifted from Manipur to Guwahati in view of the law and order situation in Manipur.

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SOURCE: IANS

Amid the continuing border crisis with Bangladesh, the West Bengal government has started the process of handover 356 acres of land to the Border Security Force (BSF) at the earliest so that the border guarding force can immediately start the process of completing the process of installing barbed fencing in those areas where fences have not been yet put up.

Instructions have already been sent from the state secretary of Nabanna to the district magistrates of the districts concerned which have international borders with Bangladesh, a senior official of the state government said.

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SOURCE: QuBeats

2025-QulBeats, a pioneering Indian quantum deeptech startup at the forefront of quantum sensing technologies, is proud to announce that it has won the prestigious ADITI 2.0 Defence Challenge to develop an indigenous Quantum Positioning System (QPS) for the Indian Navy. The award, which comes with a grant of 25 crore (-USD 3 million), will enable Qußeats to build next-generation high precision quantum sensors that promise accurate navigation in GPS-denied or spoofed environments-a critical capability for modern military operations.

In an era heavily dependent on satellite-based navigation like GPS, QuBeats is disrupting coriventional paradigms with its innovative quantum magnetometer technology. These high-precision sensors detect the Earth’s unique magnetic anomaly signatures, enabling navigation that is entirely independent of GPS systems-reliable by day or night, in any condition.

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SOURCE: UNI

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) will conduct seven microgravity research experiments during the upcoming Axiom-4 AX-4 Axiom International Space Station (ISS) mission to be piloted by Indian astronaut Group Captain Subhanshu Shukla. The mission is scheduled for June 10 t 0612 hrs IST from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

ISRO said the field of microgravity research with potential applications in diverse areas such as human health, physical/ life sciences, material research, novel pharmaceutical development and biotechnology offers significant opportunities to the national scientific community. ISRO has shortlisted seven microgravity research experiments proposed by Indian Principal Investigators (PIs) from various national R&D laboratories/ academic institutions for implementation on International Space Station (ISS) during the upcoming Axiom-4 mission with ISRO’s Gaganyatri.

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SOURCE: PTI

India is the fifth largest economy in the world and it is central to a number of critical global supply chains, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has said, arguing that the leadership of the country must be part of discussions at the upcoming G7 summit.

Carney’s comments came after some of his political opponents in Canada criticised him for inviting Prime Minister Narendra Modi to the G7 summit in view of a probe into allegations of Indian links to the killing of a Khalistani separatist in 2023.

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SOURCE: PTI

Indian astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla and three others are set to embark on the Axiom Space’s fourth human spaceflight from National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) Kennedy Space Centre in Florida on June 10 and are likely to dock at the International Space Station on June 11 at about 10 pm IST, after a nearly 28-hour journey.

Shukla, the mission pilot of the Axiom-4 (Ax4) commercial mission to the ISS, will be accompanied by mission commander Peggy Whitson and specialists Tibor Kapu from Hungary and Slawosz Uznanski-Wisniewski from Poland.

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SOURCE: PTI

An Apache helicopter of the Indian Air Force (IAF) made a “precautionary landing” in Uttar Pradesh’s Saharanpur on Friday due to a technical issue while on a routine sortie, officials said.

Both the pilot and the co-pilot are safe, they said. An IAF Apache helicopter made a “precautionary landing” in Saharanpur around 11 am due to a technical issue, a senior IAF official said.

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SOURCE: UNI

NIBE Limited has received Transfer of Technology (ToT) from Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) for indigenous “Modular Bridging System”. This achievement reinforces NIBE’s commitment towards “Make in India” and “Atmanirbhar Bharat” initiatives of Government of India in the defence sector, NIBE Limited said in a release.

The Modular Bridging System is a state-of-the-art, mechanically launched mobile bridge developed by DRDO. It is a complex, multi-disciplinary engineering solution capable of rapidly deploying bridges up to 46 metre spans to enable crossing of tracked and wheeled vehicles.

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SOURCE: PTI

Pro-Khalistan slogans were on Friday raised by supporters and activists of radical Sikh outfits at the Akal Takht, the supreme temporal seat of Sikhs, while a peaceful bandh was observed around the Golden Temple and the interior walled city on the 41st anniversary of Operation Bluestar.

Breaking a 40-year-old tradition of the annual address on the anniversary of Operation Blue Star, officiating Jathedar of Akal Takht Giani Kuldeep Singh Gargaj did not deliver the customary message to the Sikh community this time as he concluded his message in the ‘ardas’ (prayer according to Sikh rituals) ceremony from the Akal Takht to avoid any controversy.

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SOURCE: IANS

Five Maoists were killed in two encounters with security forces in an ongoing operation in the Indravati National Park area of Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur district, police officials said on Saturday. Union Home Minister Amit Shah has hailed the success and expressed his wish to meet the brave soldiers who are engaged in anti-Maoist mission.

With the latest casualties, seven Maoists, including top leaders Sudhakar and Bhaskar, were neutralised in the operation in the last three days, they said.

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SOURCE: PIB

Indian Navy is all set to commission the first Anti-Submarine Warfare Shallow Water Craft (ASW-SWC), Arnala, at Naval Dockyard, Visakhapatnam, on 18 Jun 2025. The ceremony will be presided over by Chief of Defence Staff, Gen Anil Chauhan. The ceremony will be hosted by Vice Adm Rajesh Pendharkar, Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Eastern Naval Command, and attended by senior naval officials, distinguished guests, and representatives from the shipbuilders and various other agencies associated with its construction.

The event marks the formal induction of the first of the sixteen ASW-SWC class ships into the Indian Navy. Designed and constructed by M/s Garden Reach Shipbuilders & Engineers (GRSE), Kolkata, under a Public-Private Partnership (PPP) with M/s L&T Shipbuilders, Arnala is a testament to the success of the Aatmanirbhar Bharat initiative in defence manufacturing.

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SOURCE: IANS

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Saturday asserted India’s zero tolerance stance against terrorism and called upon the global community to uproot the menace.

In a post on social media platform X, Union Minister Singh said that fighting against terrorism is not optional but a collective duty. The leader also shared his article in an English daily in which he suggested ways to stem the scourge of terrorism.

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