India gets tactical advantage in the Doklam
Ahead of the India-China informal summit later this month, India has opened up an alternate road which will make it easy for the Indian forces to move faster than before in the Doklam area.
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#India #Doklam #LAC #BRO #JNU #LAC #BRDB

Mizoram rejects Forest Act amendment
The Mizoram government has rejected the Centre’s proposal to amend the “anti-indigenous people” Indian Forest Act, 1927, as its provisions are in conflict with the special provisions the State enjoys under Article 371G of the Constitution.
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#Mizoram #ForestAct #amendment #Article371G #MNF #JFMC

Army inducts 'tank killers’
Indian infantry soldiers now finally have a new weapon to destroy advancing enemy tanks on the western front with Pakistan.
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#Army #tankkillers #ATGMs #Pakistan #DRDO #PSU

India's first corporatised train
Chief minister Aditya Nath Yogi flagged off the first corporatised train of Indian Railways, Tejas express, from Lucknow Junction station's cabway, on 4 October 2019, to New Delhi.
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#India #corporatised #train #AdityaNathYogi #IndianRailways #IRCTC

Old giant continents near Earth’s mantle
The underground rocky continents which are deep inside the Earth might have formed from an ancient magma ocean which got solidified during the starting of the formation of the Earth approximately 4.5 billion years ago, according to a new study.
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#Earth #Oldgiant #mantle #AGU #Moon

Nobel Prize for Medicine 2019
The 2019 Nobel Prize for Medicine or Physiology was jointly awarded on 7 October 2019 to two Americans and a British scientist, namely William G. Kaelin Jr, Gregg L. Semenza, Sir Peter J. Ratcliffe, for their discoveries of “how cells sense and adapt to oxygen availability”.
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#NobelPrize #Medicine2019 #British #JamesAllison

India plans to deploy M777s near LAC
India has decided to enhance its artillery firepower along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) with China in eastern Arunachal Pradesh, with the US-made M777 Ultra-Light Howitzers likely to be deployed along the LAC by the year-end. The development comes ahead of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s expected India visit next week.
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#M777 #LAC #India #HimVijay #Assam #Army #XiJinping

New organic compounds in Enceladus
Data from NASA’s Cassini mission has found new kinds of organic compounds, which have ingredients for amino acids–the key building blocks of life– from the icy plumes of Saturn’s moon Enceladus.
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#Neworganic #NASA #JPL #Earth #Cassinimission #moon

Iraq Parliament votes to expel US military
The Iraqi parliament has voted to remove US troops from Iraq. In an extraordinary session, lawmakers backed a resolution to ask the government to end an agreement with Washington to station 5,200 troops in Iraq.
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#Iraq #military #ISIS #Parliament #votes #IslamicState

The farthest group of galaxies
An international team of astronomers linked to Nasa, led by an Indian-origin Goa-born scientist, Vithal Tilvi, have discovered a never-before-seen group of galaxies, now labelled EGS77, which is the farthest group of galaxies to have ever been sighted.
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#galaxies #EGS77 #VithalTilvi #Nasa #WFIRST #Earth

China begins major military exercises
The Chinese army has begun major military exercises in the high-altitude Tibet bordering India, deploying latest weapons including the Type 15 light battle tank and the new 155-MM vehicle-mounted howitzer.
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#China #PLA #LAC #military #aircraft #ArunachalPradesh

Rugby’s ‘international young player of year’
Sweety Kumari, who hails from Nawada village in Barh tehsil of Patna, has earned international accolades in the sport. Sweety, 19, was recently adjudged as the “international young player of the year” by a reputed women’s rugby website – Scrumqueens.
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#Rugby #SweetyKumari #MikeFryday #internationalyoungplayer

India defends its border with China
The current Ladakh standoff which resulted in the death of over 20 Indian troops including a commanding officer is a stark reminder of India’s fragile relationship with China.
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#India #China #Ladakhstandoff #LAC #LineofActualControl

Indian Soldiers on LAC
The political slugfest about the death of 20 soldiers in a violent faceoff with the Chinese in Ladakh brought home the fact that the Indian troops were armed, but did not open fire.
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#IndianSoldiers #LAC #Ladakh #LineofActualControl

India changes rules of engagement along LAC
Days after a violent clash with China in eastern Ladakh, India has changed the rules of engagement along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) to allow field commanders to approve the use of firearms under "extraordinary" circumstances.
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#LAC #Ladakh #China #LineofActualControl #SJaishankar

Rafale inducted in IAF
The operational deployment of Rafale into the Indian Air Force (IAF) is an “important step” in the wake of the border tensions, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said 10 September 2020 in a reference to the ongoing crisis at the Line of Actual Control (LAC) with China.
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#Rafale #IAF #LAC #RajnathSingh #Rafalefighterjets #UPSCOnlineClasses #OnlineClassses #IASOnlineclasses

INS Kavaratti commissioned
The last of four indigenously-built Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) stealth corvettes (warships), INS Kavaratti, commissioned into the Indian Navy in combat-ready status on 22 October 2020.
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#INSKavaratti #ASW #LAC #UPSCOnlineClasses #OnlineClassses #IASOnlineclasses

India-US 2+2 talks
Amid heightened tensions with China along the LAC, India is set to host the third edition of 2+2 ministerial dialogue with the US from October 26-27.
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#LAC #India #US #22talks #UPSCOnlineClasses #OnlineClassses #IASOnlineclasses

Johnson Line, McMahon Line and Line of Actual Control | Ankit Sir | IR | Class Excerpts | KSG INDIA

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