Proceeding with unwarranted truce infringement on the line of control (LoC), Pakistan turned to substantial shelling to target Indian situations on Friday in J&K's Poonch locale.
Guard Ministry representative Colonel Devender Anand stated, "At about 5.15 a.m. today Pakistan started unwarranted truce infringement by shooting with little arms and shelling with mortars along the LoC in Mankote area of Poonch region. The Indian armed force fought back befittingly."
A JCO of the military was harmed in Pakistan truce infringement on the LoC in a similar locale on Thursday.
Since the start of this current year, Pakistan has been disregarding without any potential repercussions the respective truce arrangement marked by the two nations in 1999.
24 regular citizens have been executed and more than 100 harmed in almost 3,200 truce infringement by Pakistan on the LoC in J&K since January 2020.
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Association Defense Minister Rajnath Singh on Friday guaranteed that not an inch of our territory can be taken by any force on the planet while he collaborated with the Indian Army and ITBP faculty at Lukung.
Alluding to the India-China fringe deadlock, he stated, "Talks are in progress to determine the outskirt contest however how much it very well may be settled I can't ensure. I can guarantee you, not one inch of our property can be taken by any force on the planet."
Underscoring on finding a conciliatory answer for the deadlock, he further stated, "If an answer can be found by talks, there is not all that much."
"As of late what occurred between troops of India and China at PP14, how a portion of our work force relinquished their carries on with ensuring our fringe. I am glad to meet all of you yet in addition disheartened as a result of their misfortune. I pay my tributes to them," he included.
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Singh collaborated with the Army and Paramilitary soldiers here alongside Chief of Defense Staff General Bipin Rawat and Army Chief General MM Naravane.
Prior today, the Defense Minister saw para dropping and checking weapons here. He likewise examined a Pika automatic rifle.
Indian Army T-90 tanks and BMP infantry battle vehicles completed the activity at Stakna, Leh in nearness of Singh, Chief of Defense Staff and Army Chief.
Protection Minister is on a two-day visit to Ladakh and Jammu and Kashmir. He will consider the circumstance at both the Line of Actual Control (LAC) and the Line of Control (LOC).
While Pakistan continually disregards truce from over the LoC, China has kept on barging in into An indian area in Ladakh district in ongoing past, raising pressures among India and its eastern neighbor.
On June 15, twenty Indian warriors spread out their lives during battle with Chinese powers in Galwan valley, prompting pressures between the two countries. Chinese officers in this way begun moving back after exchanges between two nations through the military level and political level.
Singh was joined by the Chief of Defense Staff General Bipin Rawat and Army Chief General MM Naravane.
Current Affairs
Broadband web access was reestablished in government-run emergency clinics and SMS office on every single cell phone from Tuesday 12 PM in Kashmir, after more than four-and-a-half long stretches of suspension.
Internet providers, landline and cell phones were snapped crosswise over Jammu and Kashmir on August 4, a day prior to the Center's declaration to scrap the unique status of Jammu and Kashmir and gap it into two association regions.
Despite the fact that most administrations, aside from portable web, were reestablished in Jammu inside seven days, Kashmir saw landlines and post-paid administrations being reestablished in stages. "It has been chosen to reestablish web availability to all administration clinics with impact from 12 PM of December 31 other than completely reestablishing SMS on cell phones," Jammu and Kashmir organization representative Rohit Kansal told correspondents here.
Be that as it may, Internet and prepaid versatile administrations in Kashmir are yet to be reestablished. On December 10, he had said machine-based SMSes were empowered for cell phones in Kashmir so as to encourage understudies, grant competitors, merchants and others, and that reclamation of full message administrations was a piece of the procedure.
"Ceaseless endeavors of the administration have been to encourage and push ahead however much as could be expected and as fast as would be prudent, and as far back as August 5, we have been advancing toward this path both in Jammu and in Kashmir. We have been moving dynamically forward and we will attempt to guarantee however much and as fast as could be expected," Kansal said in light of an inquiry regarding rebuilding of Internet administrations...Read More
International News
A new narrative about India is suddenly emerging. Until very recently, India appeared a great democracy as well as a rising economic power, a potential partner of the West in its policy of containing China. Writing in Time magazine in 2015, no less a moral and political authority than Barack Obama hailed Prime Minister Narendra Modi as India’s “reformer-in-chief” who “reflects the dynamism and potential of India’s rise.”
However, the latest, radically different narrative about India holds that the country is flailing, its politics and civil society captured by a Hindu supremacist movement, and its economy trapped in a potentially long slowdown.Evidence that India’s prime minister is not the smart economic moderniser he seemed to many in the West has become steadily incontrovertible, especially after he quixotically withdrew most currency notes in circulation in 2016.
This week, an exhaustively researched report in the New Yorker by Dexter Filkins provided spine-chilling evidence that India is ruled by cold-blooded ideological fanatics, who will use all means to achieve their aims. These can range from perversion of the media, judiciary and military to anti-Muslim pogroms, targeted assassinations of critics, and collective punishment of a minority (as in Kashmir, where a four-month-old lockdown continues).
Such a dramatic reversal of reputations — “from hero to zero,” as the Indian wisecrack goes — is not new in India’s case. For much of India’s seven decades, when it appeared to be on the wrong side of the Cold War, Western commentators regarded the country as a basket case.As Thomas Friedman put it in The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century, India was “known as a country of snake charmers, poor people, and Mother Teresa” before it was abruptly re-branded, including by Friedman, as a “country of brainy people and computer wizards.”As India embraced market capitalism, moved away from its Russian friends, and came closer to the West....Read More
India
and the United States sought "tangible and irreversible action"
by Pakistan against terrorist groups and leaders, with the US
national security advisor saying Washington stands
shoulder-to-shoulder with New Delhi in its fight against terrorism.
The
US support to India was expressed by American NSA John Bolton during
a meeting with Foreign Secretary Vijay Gokhale on Wednesday.
"Met
with Indian FS Gokhale to advance progress on the US-India strategic
partnership & our shared vision for the Indo-Pacific, as well as
reiterate that the US stands shoulder-to-shoulder with India in the
fight against terrorism," Bolton said in a tweet.
Post
the Pulwama attack by Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammad, Bolton and US
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo have emerged as strong supporters of
the India-US relationship.
"Both
underlined the importance of Pakistan taking tangible and
irreversible action against terrorist groups based in territories
under its control and denial of safe haven for these groups to launch
cross -border attacks," the Indian Embassy said in a readout of
the meeting.
However,
the US support came on a day China for the fourth time blocked a bid
to get Jaish chief Masood Azhar designated a global terrorist by the
UN Security Council.
China
put a technical hold on the move by the US, the UK and France,
seeking "more time to examine" the proposal, a diplomat at
the United Nations has told PTI...Read
more
Four
female paramedical students of Kashmiri-origin have been slapped with
sedition charges after being suspended from a private institute here
for allegedly celebrating the Pulwama terror attack by posting
"anti-national" messages on an instant messaging app,
officials.
The
second-year students of the National Institute of Medical Science
(NIMS), Talveen Manzoor, Iqra, Zohra Nazir and Uzma Nazir, were
suspended for posting on WhatsApp a picture in which they were
purportedly seen celebrating the terrorist attack in Kashmir that
claimed the lives of 40 CRPF personnel..
The
picture soon went viral, prompting the university administration to
take action.
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In the
suspension order, the NIMS registrar said,"You have posted an
anti-national message on your WhatsApp for celebrating killing of
Pulwama terrorist attack martyrs. The university will not tolerate
and strictly condemns such activities. The act is grave and serious
in nature."
Later, a
case was registered against the four students following a complaint
by the university administration, a police official said.
The
students were booked under IPC sections 124A (sedition), 153A
(promoting enmity) and relevant provisions of the Information
Technology (IT) Act. Senior officials are investigating the matter
and appropriate action will be taken thereafter, SP (Rural) Harendra
Kumar said.
