The 6th Edition of #India - #Kazakhstan joint training exercise “KAZIND-22” is being conducted at Umroi (Meghalaya).
It is a joint annual training exercise with the Kazakhstan Army and was instituted in 2016 as Exercise Prabal Dostyk, which was later upgraded to a company level
>> To build positive military relations, imbibe each other’s best practices and promote the ability to operate together while undertaking counter terrorist operations in semi urban / jungle scenario.
How is Kazakhstan Important for India?
1) It Surrounded by the Caspian Sea in the west to Russia in the North and China in the East, Kazakhstan, the largest country in Central Asia and the ninth largest country in the world asserts great strategic importance.
2) Kazakhstan holds great significance to India especially in terms of energy resources and its economic potential and also due to its geo-strategic location.
3) From the perspective of energy resources, Kazakhstan is the world’s largest producer of #Uranium.
4) India and Kazakhstan actively cooperate under the aegis of various multilateral fora including Confidence-Building Measures in Asia (#CICA), Shanghai Cooperation Operation (#SCO) and the United Nations (#UN) organisations.
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>>An acid attack in in #Delhi has once again brought back to focus the heinous crime of acid attacks and the easy availability of corrosive substances.
>>An acid attack, also called acid throwing, vitriol attack, or vitriolage, is a form of violent assault involving the act of throwing acid or a similarly corrosive substance onto the body of another.
>>It intends to disfigure, maim, torture, or kill.
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>>Perpetrators of these attacks throw corrosive liquids at their victims, usually at their faces, burning them, and damaging skin tissue, often exposing and sometimes dissolving the bones.
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>>A grammatical problem by #Panini that has defeated Sanskrit scholars since the 5th Century BC has finally been solved by an Indian Ph.D. student at the University of Cambridge.
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Who was Panini?
>>Panini was a #Sanskrit philologist, grammarian, and revered scholar in ancient India, variously dated between the 6th and 4th century BCE.
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>>Since the discovery and publication of his work by European scholars in the nineteenth century, Panini has been considered the “first descriptive linguist” and even labelled as “the father of linguistics”.
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India calls Pak Foreign Minister’s remarks "'uncivilised"
These comments are a new low, even for Pakistan. Pak's Foreign Min has obviously forgotten this day in 1971, which was a direct result of the genocide unleashed by Pakistani rulers against ethnic Bengalis & Hindus: MEA
Pakistan is a country that glorifies Osama bin Laden as a martyr, and shelters terrorists like Lakhvi, Hafiz Saeed, Masood Azhar, Sajid Mir and Dawood Ibrahim. No other country can boast having 126 UN-designated terrorists and 27 UN-designated terrorist entities: MEA
We wish that Pak FM would have listened more sincerely y'day at the UNSC to the testimony of Anjali Kulthe, a Mumbai nurse who saved the lives of 20 pregnant women from the bullets of the Pak terrorist Ajmal Kasab. Clearly, FM was more interested in whitewashing Pak’s role: MEA
How Indian Prime Minister Jawahar Lal Nehru Rejected US (1950) and USSR (1955) offer for Permanent seat at UN Security Council
>>With the passage of time, and a more relaxed bureaucratic regime in many parts of the world, the long-buried archives are opening up.
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It is now possible draw a reasonably accurate picture of what may have actually transpired.
>>There is now both circumstantial and archival evidence that the UNSC seat was indeed offered to India by the US in 1950 and by the USSR in 1955.
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>>This offer came at a time when Washington was looking to shape the UN’s decision-making in its favour.
>>The Soviet Union had walked out of the UN in January 1950 in protest against the US (and others)
blocking the People’s Republic of China (PRC) from taking up
>> This, despite the warning by Babasaheb Ambedkar and the reluctance of Sardar Patel to be associated with what came to be known as Article 370 of the Indian constitution on 17 October 1949.
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We tend to forget some important markers from our past; otherwise, we should have set in stone these words spoken wisely by B.R. Ambedkar when he refused to draft Article 370.
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Indian Air Force practicing OCA missions against Chinese PLAAF over North East India.
>> Offensive counter-air (OCA) is a military term for the suppression of an enemy's military air power, primarily through ground attacks targeting enemy air bases: disabling or destroying parked aircraft, runways, fuel facilities, hangars, air traffic control facilities and other
aviation infrastructure. Ground munitions like bombs are typically less expensive than more sophisticated air-to-air munitions, and a single ground munition can destroy or disable multiple aircraft in a very short time whereas aircraft already flying must typically be shot down