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The Ministry of Defence, Government of India, recently welcomed His Excellency, Major General Lukwikila Marcel, Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Defence, Government of the Democratic Republic of Congo, along with his distinguished delegation. This visit served as a platform to showcase India’s cutting-edge defence capabilities, emphasizing technological advancements and innovative solutions developed by the Indian industry and public sector undertakings.

Among the highlights of the visit was a presentation by Ikran Aerospace and Technologies Private Limited (Ikran Aerospace), a leading Indian firm renowned for its expertise in Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) technologies tailored for defence applications. Ikran Aerospace introduced its latest offerings in advanced surveillance and combat UAV solutions, including weapon-integrated rotorcrafts.

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Ladakh’s Drass on July 26 to mark the 25th anniversary of Kargil Vijay Diwas. Earlier on Sunday, Lt. Governor of Ladakh Brig (Retd) B D Mishra held a meeting at the secretariat on Sunday and reviewed arrangements for the PM’s visit to the Kargil War Memorial at Drass.

“The Hon’ble Lt Governor Brig (Dr) BD Mishra (Retd) held a meeting at the Lieutenant Governor’s Secretariat to discuss the arrangements for Hon’ble Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi’s visit to the Kargil War Memorial Drass,” Office of the Lt. Governor, Ladakh posted on X.

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 J&K Police on Monday warned people about a video being circulated by terrorists through social media websites and advised people not to share it.

A police statement said that the five-minute and 55-second video by Jaish with a poster of the Bollywood movie ‘Phantom’ and with the photo of actor Saif Ali was released by the enemy around 2 pm on Monday.

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Speaking on the attack on a Village Development Committee (VDC) member in Gunda village in Jammu and Kashmir’s Rajouri, defence expert Anil Gaur said on Monday that the terrorists were directed by ISIS to carry out the attack. “This action is again what ISIS has directed the terrorists to do: to create mayhem over here so that people don’t come out and don’t report about their movement.

But the people are awake, and these VDC members are now strong and they should be strengthened even more to eliminate the terrorists immedietly, ” he said. He further added that the attack on the house of the member of the VCD also shows that the terrorists are scared, as they realised that the VCDs are empowered and it would cause a problem for them to operate in that region.

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A fire broke out on board an Indian Navy ship undergoing a refit at the Naval Dockyard in Mumbai late on Sunday evening, officials said here on Monday. There were no casualties in the blaze, the cause of which is not known, and a probe has been ordered into the incident.

The official spokesperson said that the blaze was detected by the ship’s duty staff while carrying out routine maintenance works on board the vessel. The ship’s fire-fighting team immediately launched an operation to control the conflagration and got reinforcements from the naval dockyard fire brigade and other units nearby.

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A major terror attack on an Army picket in the remote village of Rajouri has been thwarted, the Directorate of Public Relations Jammu said on Monday.

Firing is underway in the Gundha area of Rajouri. More details are awaited. In the last few months, there has been a spike in terror attacks in the Jammu region, including the terror attack at the army convoy in Kathua and encounters in Doda and Udhampur.

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An unidentified terrorist was killed and a soldierinjured on Monday in an anti-terror operation in Jammu and Kashmir’s Rajouri district. Officials said that the terrorists attacked a newly set up Army ‘Naka’ (Checkpost) near the house of a Shaurya Chakra awardee Parshotam Kumar, a village defence committee (VDC) member at the Gundha Khawas village in Rajouri district around 3 a.m. “One soldier sustained bullet injuries in the attack while a cow was killed.

The checkpost had been set up after receiving inputs about the movement of terrorists. Parshotam Kumar was recently awarded Shaurya Chakra by the President for helping to kill a terrorist in the Kalakote area of Rajouri district. After the attack, a massive search operation was launched which is now underway,” officials said.

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The conversation with India regarding the allegations of a plot to assassinate a Khalistani terrorist in the US that involved an Indian government official has been “respectful” and “effective” because it’s being held behind closed doors, according to Jake Sullivan, the National Security Advisor to the US president.

In November last year, US federal prosecutors charged Indian national Nikhil Gupta with working with an Indian government employee in the foiled plot to kill Gurpatwant Singh Pannun in New York. Gupta, who was arrested in the Czech Republic in June last year, was extradited to the US on June 14.

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The US understands that India has historic ties with Russia that it will not cut off overnight but the important issue is whether or not New Delhi was deepening military and technology relationship with Moscow and the Joe Biden administration saw no evidence of that in the outcomes of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s recent meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, American National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan has said.

The meeting between PM Modi and Putin continues to reverberate in Washington DC’s policy circles. It has been raised and addressed many times at the state department’s daily briefings and Sullivan was asked about it in an interview on MSNBC earlier this week and then once again on Friday at the Aspen Security Forum in Colorado, whose transcript was released by the White House on Sunday.

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 Suspected militants gunned down a man, after blindfolding him and tying his hands behind his back, in Manipur’s Imphal East district, police said on Sunday. A police official said that the incident occurred in the Top Awang Leikai area on Saturday night and the victim was identified as Rajkumar Prithibingamba Singh, 29.

Police suspect that extremists of the Kangleipak Communist Party-Peoples’ War Group (KCP-PWG) outfit killed Singh, a surrendered militant, suspecting him of being a “police spy”.

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Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami on Sunday said that the state government will bring a proposal for the reservation of Agniveers.

“Agniveeers from the state would be given jobs in the government departments and the Police Department after they serve the nation. The state government will also bring a proposal to the Cabinet for the reservation for Agniveers,” the Chief Minister said while addressing a press conference.

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Indian Army’s Adjutant General Lt Gen C B Ponnappa on Sunday said that that one lakh Agniveers have been enrolled in the force till now and around 70,000 of them have been posted to the units. General Ponappa also mentioned that in the year 2024-25, around 50,000 vacancies have been released and the recruitment process is ongoing. “Since June 2022, the scheme was launched and then we had the first batch that was recruited and enrolled, in December 2022-January 2023. Approximately, 1 lakh Agniveers have been enrolled in the Army.

This also includes around 200 women, approximately 70,000 have already been dispatched to the units and are performing extremely well in the battalions. This includes around 100 women police also,” he said. “Around 50,000 vacancies have been released, in this year 2024-25. The recruitment process is ongoing.

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The Border Security Force (BSF) is on high alert to deal with any situation that may arise due to the prevailing unrest in neighbouring Bangladesh, a top official said on Sunday.

Anti-quota agitations in the neighbouring country have left more than 100 dead, prompting the government to enforce a curfew to tackle the volatile situation. “The prevailing law and order situation in Bangladesh is a security concern for the BSF too as we are entrusted with guarding the international border. We are fully seized of the situation and have beefed up security so that criminal elements from across the border do not take advantage of the current situation,” BSF Tripura Frontier Inspector General Patel Piyush Purushottam Das said at a press conference.

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Border Security Force (BSF) Director General, Nitin Agarwal, on Sunday reviewed the operational preparedness of troopers deployed on the international border (IB) in Jammu.

The BSF chief has arrived on a 2-day visit to J&K on Saturday. Visiting the BSF personnel guarding the IB in Jammu, he had detailed discussions with the unit commanders. The BSF chief also interacted with BSF’s Special Director General, Western Command, Y.B. Khurania and Inspector General, Jammu Frontier, D.K. Boora.

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European major Airbus has shortlisted eight sites in India for setting up its final assembly line for H125 helicopters and the ground-breaking ceremony for the facility is expected later this year.

The facility, which will be the fourth Final Assembly Line (FAL) for the single engine H125, will initially produce up to 10 helicopters annually and the capacity will be ramped up depending on the market demand, Airbus officials said.