✈INTERNATIONAL NEWS
1. Project Cheetah set to take off, India to get upgraded & armed drones from Israel.
2. The US has approved the sale of Harpoon Joint Common Test Set (JCTS) and related equipment to India for an estimated cost of $82 million, a decision which it said will help strengthen the bilateral strategic ties and improve the security of a major defensive partner in the Indo-Pacific region.
3. Chief of Staff of US Army General James C McConville is on a two-day visit to India.
4. The Indo – Russia joint training Exercise INDRA 2021 commenced at Prudboy Ranges, Volgograd in Russia on 04 Aug (Wednesday).
5. India is likely to receive the last batch of Rafale fighter jets from France later this year. At a time when India and China are facing a protracted stalemate on the border, Rafales will greatly support the IAF.
6. Killed Jaish commander’s phone leads to Masood Azhar’s Pak terror empire
The Indian intelligence agencies, along with Army and Jammu and Kashmir Police, are conducting forensic analysis of the three iPhones recovered from killed Muhammad Ismail Alvi alias Lambu, to extract the links that the terrorist had with Bahawalpur-based headquarters of the proscribed Jaish-e-Mohammad.
7. The situation in Afghanistan is of deep concern to all members of the UN Security Council, India’s Permanent Representative to the UN and President of Security Council for the month of August TS Tirumurti said.
8. India & China have agreed to disengage their troops from the Gogra Heights area of eastern Ladakh. The two sides had deployed their troops against each other in this region since May last year.
9. India is believed to be building a naval facility on the remote Mauritian island of Agalega in the south-western Indian Ocean, a leading Arab media organisation claimed.
10. Bangladesh Railway has earned a record revenue of over 176 crore Taka by carrying freight through the India-Bangladesh interchange points in the year 2020-21.
🌎WORLD NEWS🌍
1. Israeli defense contractor Rafael announced on Thursday that it has completed the development of the ground-based Air Defense version of the I-Derby ER (Extended Range) air-to-air missile. During the test series concluded earlier this week in southern Israel.
2. Nearly 9,000 Canadian border staff will begin “work-to-rule” strike action starting on 06 Aug (Friday), days before Canada begins allowing fully vaccinated U.S. visitors in the country for the first time in 16 months.
3. Popular messaging application WhatsApp has finally added the disappearing photos and videos feature to the stable version of the app. The feature is called ‘View Once’ and works similarly to Instagram’s expiring media feature
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Ch Narmada Naveen Kumar |
