✈INTERNATIONAL NEWS
1. India’s LCA Tejas Mk-1A to take first flight by March 2022 : HAL will also next week announce a multimillion-dollar engine deal with US firm GE Aviation for 99 F404 engines to power India’s latest indigenous fighter.
2. India-Russia defence deal gets agreed: AK-203 assault rifles to be made in India.
3. The naval army of India and Saudi Arabia started their first-ever joint exercise on 12 Aug 2021, named *the Al-Mohed Al-Hindi Exercise. In a sign of growing defence ties between the two nations.
4. The Indian Navy participated in the U.S. Navy-led Southeast Asia Cooperation and Training (SEACAT) military exercise in Singapore, to demonstrate its maritime manoeuvres. The main objective of SEACAT 2021 was to enhance the interoperability and shared maritime security concerns and preserve rules-based international order. The exercise comprised approximately 400 personnel and 10 ships.SEACAT was held for the first time in 2002.
5. The 20th edition of the exercise was organised by the U.S. Navy, in Hybrid format, and included 20 other partner nations from the Indo-Pacific region, including India. Other countries participating in the exercise include Australia, Bangladesh, Brunei, Canada, France, Germany, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Maldives, New Zealand, Philippines, South Korea, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Timor-Leste, United Kingdom and Vietnam.
🌎WORLD NEWS🌍
1. The Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) of Bangladesh has arrested three more persons in connection with the vandalism & attack on the temples and houses of the minority Hindu community in the Shiali villages under Rupsha upazila of Khulna district on 7 August.
2. The US Navy’s aircraft carrier Gerald R Ford has successfully withstood an impact trial test of underwater detonation of 20 tonnes of explosives, which observers say could effectively reduce the threat posed by China’s “carrier killer” missiles.
3. US, India and China among 12 nations decide not to recognise any Afghanistan govt imposed by force. They have decided that they would not recognise any government in Afghanistan that seeks to take control through the barrel of a gun.
4. Taliban sweep across Afghanistan’s south; take four more cities including Ghor
::Taliban insurgents have seized Afghanistan’s second- and third-biggest cities as resistance from government forces crumbled, stoking fears that an assault on the capital Kabul could be just days away.
5. Afghanistan president Ashraf Ghani held a coordination meeting on Saturday attended by US Chargé d’Affaires Ross Wilson and US forces commander and both vowed support to Afghan forces.
6. A strong earthquake 7.2 Magnitude killed at least 29 people in Haiti on 14 Aug (Saturday), in the latest challenge to a Caribbean nation still recovering from a devastating 2010 quake. The epicenter of the quake was about 125 kilometers (78 miles) west of the capital of Port-au-Prince, the U.S. Geological Survey said
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Ch Narmada Naveen Kumar |
