Ch Sushil Rao

Gen Bipin Rawat was on his way to the Defence Services Staff College, Wellington when the mishap took place. 

The Nagarjunasagar dam in Telangana has been identified by the ministry of civil aviation for an aerodrome from where seaplane operations can take place.  The Ministry of Civil Aviation introduced a new mode of transportation i.e. seaplane operations from water aerodromes under UDAN-3. Till date a total of 14 water aerodromes have been identified in the states of Gujarat, Assam, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Andaman and Nicobar Islands and Lakshadwee. 

NCBS is part of a consortium of national laboratories performing genomic surveillance across four city clusters – Bangalore, Hyderabad, New Delhi and Pune. It gave its report to the authorities on December 2.  The consortium was established four months ago with support from The Rockefeller Foundation’s Pandemic Prevention Institute and is led by the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB) in Hyderabad.

Synopsis:  The National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) has deployed 32 teams in different states which are likely to be hit by a cyclone.  Rescue and relief teams of the Army and Navy along with ships and aircrafts are ready for deployment if required.

The National Crisis Management Committee (NCMC) under the Chairmanship of Cabinet Secretary, Rajiv Gauba reviewed the preparedness of Central Ministries/Agencies and State Governments to deal with the situation arising out of the impending cyclone in the Bay of Bengal.

Director General, India Meteorological Department, briefed the Committee about the current status of a low pressure area in the Bay of Bengal, which is likely to intensify into a cyclonic storm by 3rd December. It is expected to cross the coasts of Andhra Pradesh and Odisha by the morning of 4th December, with wind speeds ranging from 90 kmph to 100 kmph, accompanied by heavy rainfall and tidal waves in the coastal districts of these states.  

The cyclonic storm is likely to affect the districts of Srikakulam, Visakhapatanam and Vizianagaram in Andhra Pradesh and coastal districts of Odisha. It is also likely to bring heavy to very heavy rainfall in the coastal areas and Gangetic parts of West Bengal.

CSIR-IIP Dehradun’s home-grown technology to produce bio-jet fuel has been formally approved for use on military aircraft of the Indian Air Force (IAF).

Bharti Dharapuram and Jahnavi Joshi and other researchers, studied diversity and endemism in centipedes, a group of ancient predatory soil arthropods, across the biodiversity hotspot of Western Ghats (WG), India. What did they find? They obtained phylogenetic measures of diversity by including evolutionary relationships between species. To this, they added information on species distributions to measure phylogenetic endemism, which helps in identifying areas with unique diversity.

The event marks the formal induction of the first of the four ‘Visakhapatnam’ class destroyers, indigenously designed by the Indian Navy’s in-house organisation Directorate of Naval Design and constructed by Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders Limited, Mumbai.

Named after the historic city of Andhra Pradesh on the east coast, Visakhapatnam, the ‘City of Destiny’, the ship has a total complement of about 315 personnel. Enhanced crew comfort is a significant feature of INS Visakhapatnam, which has been ensured through ergonomically designed accommodation based on ‘modular’ concepts. The ship will be under the command of Captain Birendra Singh Bains, a Navigation & Direction specialist.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid the foundation stone for setting up a manufacturing unit of Bharat Dynamics Limited (BDL), at Jhansi in the UP Defence Corridor.

BDL, a Government of India Enterprise under Ministry of Defence, is one among the few companies in the world having state-of-the-art facilities for manufacture and supply of Anti – Tank Guided Missiles, Surface to Air Missiles, Air-to-Air Missiles, Air to Surface Missiles, Underwater Weapons & Counter Measures Systems for the Armed Forces. BDL has also designed and developed Drone delivered bombs. 

The upcoming unit at Jhansi will be the sixth manufacturing unit of the Company and the first one in Northern part of India, having its registered office at Hyderabad. 

National Security Advisor Ajit Doval has called upon IPS  officer trainees to update their technological capabilities and develop right attitudes to bring in transformative changes in police functioning.

Ajit Doval was speaking at the  Passing out Parade (PoP) of the 73rd Batch of Indian Police Service (IPS) Probationers at Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel National Police Academy (SVPNPA), in Hyderabad today. The event was attended by senior officers and family members of the probationers.

Ajit Doval, took the salute of the Diskhant Parade and complimented the officer trainees passing out today. He also presented the Trophies to the Meritorious IPS Officer Trainees and Officer Trainees from the friendly countries, who underwent training at the Academy. There were 132 IPS Officer Trainees who passed out today including 27 lady officers of 73rd  batch of Regular Recruits and 17 officers from friendly countries, six officers from Bhutan, six from Maldives and five from Nepal who also  completed their institutional training.