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| Floods: Army, Navy intensify rescue efforts | 03-OCT-09 |
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| Armed forces today intensified search and rescue operations using 13 helicopters and over 100 boats in flood-hit states of Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh, reeling under one of the heaviest floods in the last century. |
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| Hike in pension to benefit 1.2 million jawans: PM | 15-AUG-09 |
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| Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today said the government's decision to increase the pension of retired jawans and Junior Commission Officers (JCOs) will benefit 12 lakh ex-servicemen and their families. |
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| 10 yrs after Kargil, Bofors upgrade hangs fire | 20-JUL-09 |
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| On the tenth anniversary of the Kargil conflict, the gun that did so much to facilitate that victory — the 155 mm Bofors FH-77B — could be staring at a major setback. With India’s artillery modernisation programme already stalled, the plan to refurbish and upgrade India’s old 155 mm FH-77B Bofors guns also seems headed for failure. |
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| SBI launches Defence Salary Package for the Indian Army | 29-MAY-09 |
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| State Bank of India, the country’s largest bank, the only Indian Bank to feature in the world’s top 100 banks and also the only Indian Bank to find a place in global Fortune 500 list, has today forged a stronger relationship with the Indian Army. Two of the oldest institutions in the country, both with long histories, have shared a relationship which goes back more than 200 years. Since the early 19th century the 3 Presidency Banks of Bombay, Calcutta and Madras were merged in 1921 to form the Imperial Bank of India, known for its integrity and lofty traditions in banking. Subsequently in 1955, the Imperial Bank of India was reconstituted and renamed as State Bank of India. This financial power house has been one of the principal bankers to the Indian Army and also to its personnel posted all over the country. |
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| Army wanted BrahMos to achieve high degree of accuracy | 30-MAR-09 |
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| The three trials of BrahMos cruise missile were aimed at testing the effectiveness of the new special sensor integrated in the missile to hit the desired target in an urban environment accurately, a top army officer said today. |
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| Ajai Shukla: Friendly fire damages the Arjun | 22-APR-08 |
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| The Arjun tank is in pitched battle even before fully entering service with the Indian Army. Ironically, the most hostile fire is coming from the men who will eventually ride the tank into war: the |
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| Arjun tank: Building a defence industrial base | 11-SEP-07 |
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| The sprawling premises of the Heavy Vehicles Factory (HVF) in Avadi near Chennai are the birthplace of the tanks that form the cutting edge of the Indian Army. The two major tank production lines here |
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| Raksha Utpadan Ratnas to the rescue | 27-APR-07 |
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| Indian Army soldiers, who use outdated night-vision devices to maintain a year-round vigil on the Line of Control (LoC), should be pleased with the defence ministrys recent decision (reported in |
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