Month: December 2023

The first leg of an Ocean Sailing expedition from Goa to Kochi and back, as part of celebrations of 75 years of National Defence Academy, culminated in Kochi on 10 Dec 2023. A crew of nine cadets and three officers have set upon this challenging and adventurous task of sailing in Open Ocean covering over 334 nautical miles on each leg of the expedition. The crew undertook this naval odyssey aboard Indian Naval Sailing Vessels Mhadei, Bulbul, and Neelkant. They underwent the basic training on sailing at Kochi followed by…

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In a significant step to accelerate digitalization in coal mines, a team of robotics researchers from IIT Roorkee conducted trials in the opencast mines of South Eastern Coalfields Limited, a subsidiary of Chhattisgarh-based Coal India. The team at IIT Roorkee is currently working on developing drones for coal mines under their project “Design and Development of an Intelligent Unmanned Aerial Vehicle applied for Open Cast Minefield Surveillance for Real Time Monitoring, Hazards and Vulnerability Assessment”. Is working. Under this project the team has started working on developing a drone to overcome…

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The bottom molding program for the fourth ship (BY 526, Malpe) and fifth ship (BY 527, Mulki) of Anti-Submarine Warfare Shallow Water Craft (ASW SWC) (CSL) project is headed by Chief of Staff Rear, Southern Navy respectively. Admiral Jaswinder Singh and Admiral Superintendent Rear Admiral Subir Mukherjee, NSRY (KOC) on 08 Dec 23 in the presence of Shri Madhu S Nair, CMD, Cochin Shipyard Limited and CSL, Kochi, Indian Navy and other senior officers of the Shipyard. These ships with all major and supporting equipment/systems sourced from indigenous manufacturers are the…

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Kavach, an indigenously developed Automatic Train Protection (ATP) system, has so far been deployed on 1465 route km and 139 locomotives, the government told Parliament on Friday. “At present, Kavach tenders have been awarded for Delhi-Mumbai and Delhi-Howrah corridors (about 3000 route km) and work on these routes is in progress,” the Railway Minister said in a written reply in the Rajya Sabha. Indian Railways has also started preparatory work including preparation of survey, Detailed Project Report (DPR) and detailed estimates on another 6000 RKM. There are currently three Indian OEMs that…

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Training launch of Short-Range Ballistic Missile ‘Agni-1’ was carried out successfully from APJ Abdul Kalam Island, Odisha on December 07, 2023. Agni-1 is a proven very high precision missile system. The user training launch, carried out under the aegis of the Strategic Forces Command, successfully validated all operational and technical parameters. Source

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Coinciding with the Armed Forces Flag Day which is celebrated on 7th December, Department of Ex-Servicemen Welfare, Ministry of Defence (MoD) has entered into a collaboration with the Indian School of Business (ISB) for scholarship to the military personnel who return to civilian life post retirement. Under the collaboration, the ISB will offer 50% tuition fee waiver to the personnel across its postgraduate and advanced management programmes, totalling up to Rs 2.3 crore a year. It will benefit 22 ex-servicemen each academic year. The collaboration aims to provide latest and…

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