Last year in June, Naik Velu became the first Indian ultra-runner to complete 1,600 km in just 17 days, a feat which is in the process of being entered as an Asian record.
Naik Velu, serving as a nursing assistant in the 60 Para Field Hospital, is an ultra marathoner who is attempting a Guinness World Record by running from Kashmir to Kanyakumari covering a distance of about 4,300 km under 50 days,” Udhampur-based Army Public Relations Officer (PRO) Lieutenant Colonel Abhinav Navneet said.
The poet, who was born Khalil Ismail, but adopted ‘Dhantejvi’ from the name of his village Dhantej in Vadodara, had written many poems, ghazals
This is the first time that the CMP has recruited women in posts below the rank of officer, said Lieutenant Colonel Julee Singh, Corps of Army Air Defence, adding that the aim is to make women military police a force multiplier.
Noted shooting coach Sanjay Chakraverty, who has given India some of its finest shooters including guiding the likes of Olympic medallist Gagan Narang and Anjali Bhagwat, died here on Saturday night
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The early 1700s were an incredibly interesting time for the areas that now form the modern Kerala state. With the Portuguese evicted from Ceylon and Kerala, and the British still decades away from becoming a substantial presence on the Indian subcontinent, the Dutch had a major stranglehold on the Malabar, then home to large communities of Arabs, Jews and different European communities.
The fourth batch of three Rafales landed on Wednesday evening flying directly from the Istres Air Base in France, the IAF said. This takes the number of Rafales in service to 14.
Less than 1% of high income households account for nearly half the international trips from India, according to an analysis by a U.K.-based climate charity called Possible.
The report titled “Elite Status: Global Inequalities in Flying” reviews evidence from several reports on air travel to build a case for international policies that impose penalties such as a “frequent flyer levy” on the rich to manage demand and control aviation’s climate impacts.
As part of measures to boost tri-service integration and resource optimisation, Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat on Thursday operationalised the third joint logistics node (JLN) in Mumbai.
“These JLNs will provide integrated logistics cover to the armed forces for their small arms ammunition, rations, fuel, general stores, civil hired transport, aviation clothing, spares and also engineering support in an effort to synergise their operational efforts,” a Defence Ministry statement said.
The initiative would accrue advantages in terms of saving of manpower, economise utilisation of resources, besides financial savings
India made the contribution to UN Women, the world organisation’s entity for gender equality and women’s empowerment. “#India contributes USD 300,000 to @UN_Women for 2021,” India’s Permanent Representative to the UN Ambassador T.S. Tirumurti tweeted on Thursday.