The Defence Acquisition Council approved a capital acquisition proposal worth Rs 2,236 crore to acquire a GSAT-7C satellite. The deal for 6.71 lakh AK-203 assault rifles is worth Rs 5000 crore.
The exercise, involving the armed forces and the border guarding forces, comes in the backdrop of the impending theaterisation process.
Colonel Santosh Babu's award was received by his wife and mother at the Defence Investiture Ceremony at the Rashtrapati Bhavan.
The project is now another step closer to achieving all-year-round connectivity in Kashmir.
The four-day exercise, which concluded on Monday, was a part of 'Exercise Dakshin Shakti' which is currently underway in the training areas of Rajasthan and Gujarat.
Group Captain Abhinanadan Varthaman was given Vir Chakra for his outstanding role in combating Pakistan Air Force’s F-16 fighter jet in 2019 during an aerial dogfight.
He also accused China of engaging irresponsibly in the maritime domain and said, “Some irresponsible nations for narrow partisan interests violate rules of UNCLOS.”
Boosting its naval prowess amidst rising Chinese influence in the Indian Ocean Region, India on Sunday commissioned its first stealth guided-missile destroyer Visakhapatnam of Project 15B into the Indian Navy.
Jyoti Nainwal, a mother of two children, passed out from the Officers' Training Academy in Chennai and is now commissioned as a Lieutenant in the Indian Army.
Konchok Stanzin requested the defence minister to open new medical centres in the region with adequate staff, educational institutions amd lay optical fibre cable in the villages.
