Punjab border: Most police posts easy target for terrorists due to lack of boundary walls & ammunition August 02, 2015 at 08:03AM

SOURCE: ECONOMIC TIMES The terrorists who stormed Dinanagar police station on Monday would not have needed to even scale a boundary wall if they had wished to attack the Bamiyal police chowki. This police post, located just a kilometre from the International Border and nearest to the suspected infiltration point, functions out of arented two-room […]

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Big leap: 340 women officers get permanent commission in Indian armed forces August 02, 2015 at 08:02AM

SOURCE: TNN Women are slowly managing to pierce the glass ceiling of getting permanent commission as officers in theIndian armed forces, even though combat roles still do not figure anywhere on the horizon for them. As per latest figures provided by Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar in Parliament on Friday, the armed forces have granted permanent […]

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New Taliban chief Mullah Akhtar Muhammad Mansour oversaw IC-814 ops at Kandahar August 02, 2015 at 08:00AM

SOURCE: EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE Mullah Akhtar Muhammad Mansour, the newly-appointed chief of the Afghan Taliban, may have played a key role in the 1999 hijacking of Indian Airlines flight IC-814, officials involved with the case have told The Sunday Express. Mansour, as the Taliban civil aviation minister, handled the hijacking along with its foreign minister, […]

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Govt formalises strategies to counter ISIS threat, maintain internal security August 02, 2015 at 07:58AM

SOURCE: PTI Involvement of community elders, monitoring of radical social media platforms and real-time sharing of information are a few steps government plans to take to prevent youths getting attracted to radical ideologies, such as that propagated by ISIS.   A high-level meeting on Saturday, chaired by Union Home Secretary LC Goyal, formalised a strategy […]

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Indian Army, PLA hold maiden personnel’ meet at DBO in Ladakh August 02, 2015 at 07:56AM

SOURCE: PTI For the first time ever, the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) today hosted an Indian Army delegation in the Daulat Beg Oldie (DBO) area along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in Ladakh sector of Jammu and Kashmir. The day marked a milestone in India-China ties at the border-troops level as the PLA […]

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Army honours two railway employees who averted Dinanagar train blast August 02, 2015 at 07:54AM

SOURCE: PTI The Indian Army on Saturday honoured two railway employees who averted a major tragedy by spotting live bombs planted by terrorists on a railway bridge near Dinanagar town in Punjab’s Gurdaspur district on July 27. General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Western Command, Lt Gen KJ Singh, felicitated the two bravehearts – gateman Darshan Kumar and […]

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Indian Army finds cow bombs near border, Maoists hand suspected? August 02, 2015 at 07:52AM

SOURCE: ZEE MEDIA Excitement was high in the Nayabasti area of Naxalbari, Maoists hot-bed, where 100 cows were held near the border by the jawans of Indian Army after they saw stitches on their abdomen.  While suspecting some foul play the Army personnels checked the cows with a metal detector. And what they found was […]

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India small in frontier development: Kiren Rijiju August 02, 2015 at 07:37AM

SOURCE: PTI Despite being a large country it seems “small” in border areas due to under-developed or absent infrastructure, Union minister of state for home Kiren Rijiju said and called for repealing of “regulations of the 50s-60s” which restrict development in the regions. The junior minister, who is directly responsible for internal security challenges along […]

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Karnataka teachers freed by ISIS are safe, to return soon August 02, 2015 at 07:36AM

SOURCE: PTI Two teachers from Karnataka who were released from alleged captivity of Islamic State terror group (ISIS) in Libya on Saturday said they are safe and would return to India very soon.  “I and Laxmikanth are safe here (Libya),” Vijay Kumar, one of the teachers, said over phone. Lakshmikanth, who hails from Raichur in north […]

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Confirmed: China Building New Aircraft Carrier… Possibly Nuclear Powered August 01, 2015 at 04:53PM

SOURCE : SPUTNIK On Thursday, huanqiu.com, the Chinese-language version of local Global Times, published an internal document of the China Shipbuilding Industry Corporation. The report states that the company’s “priority missions” are to build nuclear submarines and an aircraft carrier. It also mentions that progress on these projects has been steady. “The priority missions of building the aircraft carrier and […]

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Navy “Cold” on Joining HAL’s Light Utility Helicopter (LUH) Program? August 01, 2015 at 03:18PM

SOURCE : IDRW NEWS NETWORK (INN) Earlier this year in Aero India 2015 , Defence major Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) showcased Light Utility Helicopter (LUH) which sported new foldable rotor system which will enable it to meet the Indian Navy’s deck requirements. HAL also had offered Naval LUH with wheeled undercarriage and marinization of its […]

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Kochi gets India’s first harbour defence system August 01, 2015 at 01:44PM

SOURCE : THE HINDU The naval harbour here has become the first in the country to get a top-notch defence system — which will enable operators to foresee, and respond to, surface and sub-surface threats to vital assets along the harbour and warships in the quay. As first reported by The Hindu in September last […]

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Israeli model for Kashmiri Stone Pelters ? August 01, 2015 at 01:43PM

SOURCE: SUDESH CHARI / FOR MY TAKE / IDRW.ORG What started 5 years ago as Kanni Jung (Stone pelting) in Kashmir is fast becoming regular Friday affair for many Separatist supporters who are backed by All Parties Hurriyat Conference. Stone pelting on Friday is a ritual for Separatist Some say it was Palestinian Model of stone-throwing […]

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White House cites India’s support to sell Iran nuclear deal August 01, 2015 at 01:41PM

SOURCE : IANS The White House has again warned that if the Republican controlled Congress kills the historic nuclear deal with Iran, it would be impossible to assemble an international coalition, including India, to back sanctions against Tehran. The Iran deal was backed by at least 86 nations including six — China, India, Japan, South […]

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China warns of growing border security risks August 01, 2015 at 01:39PM

SOURCE : REUTERS China’s military warned on Saturday on its founding anniversary of growing risks along its borders, including in the disputed waters of the South and East China Seas. The Chinese military, the world’s largest, has embarked upon an ambitious modernisation programme in recent years.  That, along with rising defence spending, has jangled nerves […]

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“Are (Modi’s) India and (Sharif’s) Pakistan Sliding Toward War?” — Let’s Hope Not August 01, 2015 at 01:38PM

SOURCE : FORBES John Stimson warns in a detailed, factual article—“Are India and Pakistan Sliding Toward War?” — that rising tensions over Kashmir – and poor relations between Modi and Pakistan – could lead soon to war. I don’t disagree with the points he assembles. Kashmir is always a tinderbox, and right now, is indeed […]

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Pak’s Continuing War against Indian Civilisation August 01, 2015 at 01:35PM

SOURCE : EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE Over thirteen centuries ago, in 712 CE, an external force made an incursion into Indian civilisation. For the next thousand years, Indian people accommodated it in different ways. In 1947, they came to believe they could buy permanent peace with it by giving away a piece of our territory, thereby […]

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How to Secure India’s Sacred Cyber Space August 01, 2015 at 01:33PM

SOURCE : EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE Writing 2,500 years ago, Sun Tzu declared in his military treatise The Art of War: “Supreme excellence consists of breaking enemy’s resistance without fighting”. It is a tribute to the Chinese military strategist’s genius that his dictum holds good even today after a couple of millennia, guiding nations, organisations and […]

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MHA to debate steps to fight growth of ISIS August 01, 2015 at 12:43PM

SOURCE : DAILYMAIL The Centre has called a meeting with senior officials of state governments to discuss the problem of young people being radicalised and specifically the growing ISIS appeal that is also luring young Indian minds. The meeting will be chaired by Union Home Secretary LC Goyal on Saturday and will be attended by […]

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‘Tiger wanted to bomb plane at Sahar Airport': Brother of hanged bombing convict ‘originally wanted to avenge riots by attacking aircraft’ August 01, 2015 at 12:40PM

SOURCE : DAILYMAIL Tiger Memon, the main conspirator in the 1993 Mumbai bomb blasts, had a bigger terror plan. It was aimed at spreading greater panic. This has been revealed by an accused in the 1993 Mumbai blasts. Tiger allegedly planned to attack an aircraft at Mumbai’s Sahar Airport to avenge the Mumbai riots.But his alleged […]

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