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SP's MAI Issue No. 6 | March 16-31, 2017 - Military Updates

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  MILITARY / VIEWPOINT
  Visit of Bangladesh PM - Expectations
  By Lt General P.C. Katoch (Retd)

  Coming up next month in April is the all important visit of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina...

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  MILITARY / REPORT
  Modernisation of the Army — The current status
  By Lt General V.K. Kapoor (Retd)

  During the UPA-I and II the situation had deteriorated considerably and it was widely acclaimed that the new Modi Government which took over the reins of the country in May 2014 would rectify the situation.

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  MILITARY / VIEWPOINT
  Military modernisation kaput — And the curse of committees
  By Lt General P.C. Katoch (Retd)

  The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Defence has slammed the government...

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  MILITARY / ANALYSIS
  Armed Forces Special Powers Act in J&K
  By Lt General V.K. Kapoor (Retd)

  The debate on the removal/retention of Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) from certain districts of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) has once again taken the centre stage.

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  MILITARY / VIEWPOINT
  Special Forces — Efforts to bridge equipment voids
  By Lt General P.C. Katoch (Retd)

  Media is agog with news headlines “Army on Shopping Spree, Commandos...

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  MILITARY / SPOTLIGHT
  INS Shardul on joint EEZ surveillance in the South Indian Ocean

  In keeping with India’s national objective of ensuring a secure and stable regional environment to allow unhindered economic and social development, not just in India...

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  MILITARY
  Defence Minister hands over indigenous DRDO Naval Systems

  The Minister of Defence, Finance and Corporate Affairs Arun Jaitley handed over three Naval Systems indigenously developed by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) to the Chief of the Naval Staff, Admiral Sunil Lanba recently.

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  MILITARY
  India-Russia Military Industrial Conference

  Minister of Defence, Finance and Corporate Affairs Arun Jaitley while inaugurating the India-Russia Military Industrial Conference said relations with Russia are a key pillar of India’s foreign policy and Russia has been India’s long-standing time-tested...

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  MILITARY
  Indo-Nepal joint exercise Surya Kiran concludes

  Indo-Nepal Joint Military Training was held at Pithoragarh from March 7 to 20, 2017. Ekta Shakti Battalion of the Punjab Regiment of Indian Army and Durga Bahsh Battalion of Nepalese Army participated in the joint exercise named Surya Kiran-XI...

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  MILITARY
  Increasing infrastructure for digital army top priority: Dr Bhamre

  The Minister of State for Defence Dr Subhash Bhamre recently said that increasing of infrastructure for the digital army based on state-of-the-art technologies is a top priority of the government.

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  MILITARY
  Can you give us what we need: Asks Army Chief

  General Bipin Rawat chaired a combined session of ‘the user and the provider’ attended by renowned industrialists, academicians as well as the decision making hierarchy of the Army and released the ‘Compendium of Problem Statements Vol II’...

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  MILITARY
  Commissioning of INLCU

  INLCU L51 was commissioned into the Indian Navy on March 28, 2017, by Vice Admiral Bimal Verma, Commander-in-Chief, Andaman and Nicobar Command, at Port Blair. The commissioning ceremony was attended by Vice Admiral Dilip Deshpande...

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  First Bn 9GR celebrates 200 years

  The First Battalion of the 9 Gorkha Rifles which was raised by the British in 1817 as the ‘Fatehgarh Levy’ celebrated 200 years of its raising on March 16, 2017, at Secunderabad.