For the first time since a civilian government took over in Myanmar, India will hold a high-level engagement with it when External Affairs Minister Somanahalli Mallaiah Krishna will be on a three-day visit to Yangon and new capital Nay Pyi Taw beginning Monday.
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Indian military team heads to China
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Rashtriya Rifles’ Delta Force commander Major General Gurmeet Singh, responsible for anti-insurgency operations in Doda, Kishtwar and Ramban areas of Jammu and Kashmir, will head the eight-member delegation that will tour Beijing and Urumqi in Xinjiang province in western China.
Navy looking for more helicopters
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The Indian Navy has issued a Request For Information for a second batch of Multi-Role Helicopters, even with the existing tender process for 16 helicopters still under way. Unlike the earlier tender, the new RFI is also taking Life Cycle Cost into consideration as part of the assessment process.
India signs order for 10 C-17 aircraft
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Boeing will establish a High Altitude Engine Test Facility as well as a Trisonic Wind Tunnel Facility at India’s Defense Research and Development Organization (DRDO).
ITBP recognized for counter-insurgency school
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The Counter-Insurgency and Jungle Warfare School of the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) was a self-funded training camp until it was formally sanctioned by Home Minister Palaniappan Chidambaram on May 6, 2011, in recognition of its exceptional and state-of-the-art training.
Indian presence not against Pakistan: Karzai
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“Pakistan should feel happy that Afghanistan is being helped by another neighbor.”
Indian PM to visit Sri Lanka
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Sri Lankans have often complained that Indian leaders rarely visit Colombo despite the many trips made to New Delhi by their leaders.
Work on BrahMos’ hypersonic version to begin this year: Russian official
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Development of a hypersonic version of the BrahMos supersonic cruise missile will begin this year, while tests of the air-launched version of the existing missile will begin next year, a senior Russian official said Sunday.
Rana acquitted for 26/11, India disappointed
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In a verdict that “disappointed” India, a US jury cleared Pakistan-born Canadian Tahawwur Rana of charges that he helped with the 26/11 Mumbai attack but convicted him of supporting the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), the Islamist militant group New Delhi blames for the carnage.
India to hold massive war game this winter
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The Bhopal-based 21 Corps will be the formation that will be exercising in the Rajasthan desert sometime in October-December, according to sources at Army Headquarters.
Terror threat to Pakistani nukes a major concern: Antony
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“Our only major worry is…there is always the danger and threat of Pakistani nuclear arsenal going into the hands of militants, terrorists,” Antony said, when asked to react to the SIPRI assessment.
US reduces troops in Pakistan
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“We recently received a written request from the government of Pakistan to reduce the number of US military personnel here, and we have nearly completed that reduction,” Vice Admiral Michael LeFever, chief of the Office of the Defense Representative-Pakistan, was quoted as saying by Xinhua.
Karzai reaches Pakistan for two-day visit
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The two countries will formally launch a Joint Commission on Reconciliation, as well as, the Afghanistan-Pakistan Transit Trade Agreement during the visit.
Indian delegation arrives in Sri Lanka
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Menon and Rao, both former envoys to Sri Lanka, are likely to allude to the statement agreed on between Rajapaksa and the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon in May 2009. “A devolution package, building upon the 13th Amendment, would contribute towards creating the necessary conditions for such reconciliation,” says the Krishna-Peiris statement.
Pakistani Army got only USD 1.4 b American aid: Kayani
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The Pakistani Army used only USD 1.4 billion of the total USD 8.6 billion US funding made available over the last decade, not USD 13-15 billion as reported, according to army chief Gen Ashfaq Pervez Kayani, a media report said.
