Ashish Singh

Aatmanirbhar Bharat gets a big push in defence sector

August 24, 2020

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s dream of ‘Aatmanirbhar Bharat’ got a big push, with Defence Minister Rajnath Singh launching scores of products developed by defence PSUs and OFB on Sunday. The Defence Minister launched four products each by Ordinance Factory Board (OFB) and Bharat Earth Movers Limited (BEML), two by Bharat...

ICG begins joint patrol and training with state marine police

August 22, 2020

The Indian Coast Guard (ICG) has commenced Joint Coastal Patrol (JCP) by embarking Marine Police personnel onboard ICG ships to develop synergy and provide sea training to Marine Police personnel for enhanced coastal security.JCP is being instituted to enable implementation of Coastal Security Scheme (CSS) through capacity building of Marine...

Indian Coast Guard gets two new ships

August 22, 2020

In a span of a week, the Indian Coast Guard has got two new ships in its fleet. C-449 has been commissioned in Chennai and C-454 has been launched in Surat. Both these ships are interceptor boats and both have been produced by Larsen and Toubro. K. Shanmugam, Chief Secretary...

Rajnath launches MoD portal, DPSUs sign multiple contracts

August 21, 2020

While celebrating the ‘Aatmanirbhar Week’ in the Ministry of Defence (MoD), Defence Minister Rajnath Singh launched Department of Defence Production, MoD’s portal SRIJAN, which is a one-stop shop online portal that provides access to the vendors to take up items that can be taken up for indigenisation. Four contracts of...

Army undertakes plasma donation drive at Tezpur

August 21, 2020

Whether it is protecting our international borders, controlling the vinternal security situation of the states or helping the Indian population at dire times of need like cyclones, floods, etc., the Indian Army has always been at the forefront. Responding to the Assam government’s request, Indian Army in collaboration with the...

NRDC and NAL to incubate aerospace engineering startups

August 21, 2020

Startups are the initiatives to bring innovation into the mainstream. The action plan is to focus on simplification and handholding. Another important aspect of startups is industry-academia partnership and incubation. Looking at these aspects National Research Development Corporation (NRDC) and Council of Scientific and Industrial ResearchNational Aerospace Laboratories (CSIR-NAL) have...

Military Hospital Jodhpur gets molecular bio lab for Covid-19 testing

August 21, 2020

A molecular biology laboratory to conduct Rapid Antigen test and confirmatory RT PCRwas commissioned at Military Hospital Jodhpur. The laboratory is authorized by Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) for diagnosis of Covid-19 disease. The hospital has achieved the distinction of becoming the first zonal military hospital to have a...

NCC al l set for a major expansion in border & coastal districts

August 20, 2020

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh has approved a proposal of the National Cadet Corps for a major expansion scheme to meet the aspirations of youth in all the border and coastal districts after the proposals of the scheme were announced by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his Independence Day address...

33rd Naval Higher Command course commences at Goa’s Naval War College

August 20, 2020

Naval Higher Command Course-33 was inaugurated online by Suhas Pednekar, Vice Chancellor, University of Mumbai, on Tuesday. He lauded the efforts of the Naval War College (NWC), Goa, in embracing online format and at improving academic and military education standards. The 37-week flagship professional military education programme of the Indian...

India sends helicopters, ships and machines to help Mauritius combat oil spill

August 20, 2020

In response to a request of the Government of Mauritius (GoM) for assistance in dealing with the environmental crisis due to oil spill on its south-east coast, the Government of India (GoI) has dispatched over 30 tonnes of technical equipment and material on board an Indian Air Force (IAF) aircraft...

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