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IAF Plans 'Strategic Base' in Andhra
The Indian Air Force (IAF) has come up with major plans for Andhra Pradesh to make it a 'strategic base'.
Prime among them are IAF's plans to set up a major helicopter training facility at Donakonda in Prakasam district.
The other plans put forth before the AP government are establishing a drone manufacturing facility in Anantapur district, a cyber security centre in Amaravati and making Rajahmundry and Vijayawada airports asset positioning bases, top bureaucratic sources said.
(Source: PTI)
Nepal, Bhutan Have to Be Inclined Towards India: Gen Rawat
Chief of Army Staff General Bipin Rawat on Sunday, 17 September, said countries like Nepal and Bhutan “have to be inclined towards India because of geography.”
In his reply to a query on the growing closeness between Nepal and China, Rawat said ties between nations change along with the global scenario.
“Countries like Nepal and Bhutan have to be inclined towards India because of geography,” Rawat said on the sidelines of the closing ceremony of the Bay of Bengal initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation-Field Training Military Exercise (BIMSTEC-MILEX).
(Source: PTI)
18 Injured as Truck Falls into Gorge in Chamba
Eighteen persons were injured - five of them critically - as a truck they were travelling in fell into a gorge at Sathaly between Bharmour and Hudsor in Himachal Pradesh's Chamba district late on Sunday night, the police said.
The police reached the spot soon after getting the information and rescued the injured, which included 12 women, Chamba Superintendent of Police Monica Bhutunguru said.
(Source: PTI)
Manohar Parrikar to Continue as Goa Chief Minister
The BJP on Sunday, 16 Septmeber ruled out change in leadership in Goa, claiming Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar, admitted to the New Delhi's All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), is fine.