Day: 18 October 2025

​CARE Hospitals Conducts “Basics to Advances in Airway & Breathing (A.B.) Workshop” — Empowering Clinicians with Critical Life-Saving Skills

Vijay Raman

  Reinforcing its commitment to advancing emergency and critical care education in India, CARE Hospitals, Banjara Hills, in collaboration with the Society for Emergency Medicine India (SEMI), hosted the “Basics to Advances in Airway & Breathing (A.B.) Workshop” — a hands-on clinical training program designed to equip healthcare professionals with vital skills in airway management and respiratory support.   The workshop focused on empowering emergency and critical care physicians, anesthetists, intensivists, and residents with the latest protocols and techniques for managing airway and breathing in life-threatening situations. The program combined…

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DGCA Automates Flight Crew Computer Number Generation via Pariksha Portal

Vijay Raman

The DGCA has announced that it will begin automated generation of unique “Computer Numbers” for flight-crew candidates (including pilots, navigators, flight dispatchers etc) through its online examination and registration portal, PARIKSHA (pariksha.dgca.gov.in).   Under the updated system, new candidates registering on the portal for the first time will receive their computer number through the system once their online registration and document upload are complete — thereby reducing manual paper-based steps previously required. The Computer Number serves as a unique identifier for all flight-crew examinations and licence-applications administered by the DGCA. …

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Indian Navy’s Ammunition Barge Fleet Grows with LSAM 25

Vijay Raman

The Indian Navy inducted the eleventh Ammunition-cum-Torpedo-cum-Missile (ACTCM) barge, LSAM 25 (Yard 135), at an induction ceremony held today at the Naval Dockyard, Mumbai. The event, marking the formal delivery of the final unit under the contract, was presided over by Cmde Sumeet Vishnu Shidore, GM (R) Naval Dockyard (Mumbai) as the chief guest.     The LSAM series — purpose-designed barges for the movement, embarking and disembarking of ammunition, torpedoes and missiles — are indigenously designed and built in India under a contract awarded to the MSME shipyard M/s…

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Tejas Production Gets a Turbo Boost with New HAL Line

Vijay Raman

In a major boost to India’s defence manufacturing capabilities and the ‘Aatmanirbhar Bharat’ initiative, Raksha Mantri Shri Rajnath Singh inaugurated the third production line of the Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) Tejas Mk1A and the second production line of the Hindustan Turbo Trainer-40 (HTT-40) at Hindustan Aeronautics Limited’s (HAL) Nashik facility on Friday. The event was aptly themed “Flight of Self-Reliance.”   Listing out other feats achieved due to the Government’s consistent efforts, Raksha Mantri stated that annual defence production, which was worth Rs 46,429 crore in 2014-15, has surged to…

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