Not an inch of our land can be taken by any power, says Rajnath in Ladakh

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.

13 killed in Air Force crash; overhaul of AN-32 aircraft languishes

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In a harsh reminder of the unforgiving terrain the Indian Air Force (IAF) AN-32 transport aircraft operate in, one of these IAF workhorses crashed in Arunachal Pradesh on Monday. There were 13 military personnel on board.
The aircraft was flying from Jorhat, over high, densely forested mountains, to the advanced landing ground (ALG) at Mechuka, close to the Line of Actual Control (LAC) with China. AN-32s carry supplies that sustain army troops on the LAC.
“No wreckage has been sighted so far. IAF is coordinating with Indian Army as well as various government and civil agencies to locate the missing aircraft,” stated the IAF.
The crash was an eerie echo of another one almost exactly a decade ago, when 13 personnel were killed in June 2009, when an AN-32 crashed soon after taking off from Mechuka.
In another incident that remains a mystery, an AN-32 with 29 personnel on board disappeared from radar screens on July 22, 2016, when flying from Chennai to Port Blair in the Andaman & Nicobar Islands. No wreckage or bodies have ever been located.
Soon after the 2009 crash, the IAF signed a $400 million contract with Antonov, the Ukrainian firm that built the AN-32, for modernizing the 103 aircraft-strong fleet with improved avionics for flying in difficult conditions. The modernization was also intended to add ten years to the AN-32’s service life.

 By 2014, 45 AN-32s were modernized in Ukraine, and then 10 more in the IAF base repair depot in Kanpur. But the programme then stalled when Russia annexed Ukrai­ne’s Crimean Peninsula.