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India, Australia joint military exercise begins from Monday
A special brigade of the Australian Army has arrived in India to take part in the military exercise. This is the first exercise in the series of AUSTRA HIND with the participation of all arms and services contingent from both armies. The joint military exercise by the Indian and Australian armed forces will start from November 28 and it will last up to December 11, a defence ministry official informed this on Sunday.
Smog envelops Delhi, AQI remains in 'very poor' category
According to the System of Air Quality and Weather Forecasting And Research (SAFAR), the concentration of both PM 2.5 and PM 10 in the environment was recorded at 315 and 210 under "very poor" and "poor category" respectively. As per the SAFAR forecast, the city's air quality will further deteriorate with AQI escalating to 326 in the "very poor category" on Monday.
Navy launches new survey vessel 'Ikshak'
As per the Ministry of Defence, 'Ikshak' made her first contact with the water of Bay of Bengal at 10.40 a.m. at the launch ceremony graced by the Vice Admiral M.A. Hampiholi, Flag Officer Commanding in Chief, Southern Naval Command. In keeping with the Naval maritime tradition, Madhumati Hampiholi, spouse of M.A. Hampiholi, launched the ship to the chanting of invocation from Atharva Veda.
Reporter's Diary: Reliving the 60 hour that terrorised Mumbai, shook India
Driving patiently in the mad-hell traffic, I reached the Western Express Highway at Goregaon when my phone started ringing non-stop, around 9.30 p.m. Muttering irately, I stopped to answer, it was a professional colleague, almost screaming: "There's some shoot-out in Colaba area... Many police vehicles rushing there... some localities are cordoned off..." and abruptly cut off. Half-guessing it to be some kind of a mafia gang-war, I nevertheless made some strategic calls to confirm it was more than that.
26/11 a blurry memory, but Gen Z 'safer, secure' in a more confident India
After 14 years that shook India and dazed the world, the Gen Z -- accounting for over 45-crore ambitious youth, largely first-time voters -- feels 'safer and secure' and looks back with pride at how the country has managed to overcome and move on from that scary experience besides averting similar tragedies since then. On the other hand, an edutech consultant Pruthvi Parikh, then studying in Cambridge School, Kandivali remembers some of the details and later updated his hazy knowledge via social media.
CJI: Important to simplify litigation process, making it citizen centric
The Chief Justice, speaking at the Constitution Day celebrations at the Supreme Court, said: "We have been adopting technology to improve the working of courts. It is of supreme importance and necessity that courts are remodelled to reach out to people instead of people reaching out to courts in their quest for justice. "All judges across courts in India, ranging from district courts to the Supreme Court must reflect upon the constitutional vision of securing justice, equality and liberty," he said.
ISRO to launch navigation, Aditya satellites: Chairman
Speaking to the reporters here, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Chairman S. Somanath said the space agency has chalked up plans to fly all its rockets with various satellites in the coming months. The rockets are: Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV), Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle Mk (GSLV), LVM3 or GSLV MkIII and Small Satellite LaunchVehicle (SSLV). Somanath said next year the commercial arm NewSpace India Ltd (NSIL) has contracted two launches.
When India was celebrating Constitution Day, terrorists attacked Mumbai 14 years ago: PM
The PM was speaking at the Constitution Day celebrations in the Supreme Court. Remembering the dark day in the history of India when the country was celebrating the momentous occasion of Constitution Day, the Prime Minister recalled that on November 26, 14-years-ago, India faced the biggest terrorist attack in its history by the enemies of humanity. He paid his tributes to the ones who lost their lives in the dastardly Mumbai terror attacks.
26/11 Fallout: From coastal security upgrade to amping up anti-Pak social media war
Since 2008, the victims of the terror attacks have not been able to recover from the shock completely, but the internal security of the country has seen several major changes. Taking lessons from the terror attacks, security arrangements have been made fool proof, making it safe from rerun of the 26/11 Mumbai attacks.
India waging a lonely battle to lay its hands on 26/11 masterminds
And a team of New York police officers was in Mumbai just three days after the the most horrific terrorist strike in India's history was over. They wanted to see and study first-hand how the attack was carried out in view of their own encounter with a terrorist attack seven years before in 2001. The two countries announced their intention to launch a Joint Counterterrorism Initiative just a year later in November 2009.
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