Exercise Pitch Black, a biennial three week multi-national large force employment exercise, conducted from Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) Base in Darwin and RAAF Base in Tindal, aims to foster international co-operation between participating partner forces through the development of capabilities such as intelligence, reconnaissance and surveillance, was held from 24 July to 18 August 2018 in ...
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Convocation of Gujarat Forensic Sciences University
Gujarat Forensic Sciences University, engaged in teaching and research in different areas of Forensic Sciences, is first of its kind super specialised university in the world, which was started with an aim to provide education of international standards to the students in the area of forensic science, criminology, behavioural science and other allied subjects, has successfully completed three ye...
US Indo-Pacific Command Reflects Growing US India Relationship
US Pacific Command was renamed as US Indo-Pacific Command, underscoring the growing importance of India to the Pentagon, in a move widely seen as a public expression of America’s keenness to count India as key partner in its strategic planning. US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis announced on Wednesday May 30, 2018, at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, during a change of comma...
Who will dominate the 21st Century?
21st Century belongs to Asian Countries as its proponents claim that the two most populous countries, China and India, which are expected to grow rapidly economically, are in Asia, and then it's only natural that they will play a bigger role in the World's affairs. Assuming certain demographic and persisting economic trends lead to forecasts that predict the rising economic and ...
BJP Wrests in Himachal Pradesh with Overwhelming Majority
Himachal Pradesh has the record of changing governments every election since 1985, and this time too Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), following aggressive campaign, wrested power with an overwhelming majority winning 44 seats in 68 members Assembly, reducing Congress to just 21 seats with most of the Cabinet Ministers of Congress also losing elections. Results were declared on 18 December 2017 of t...
Zoji La – the Smart Tunnel for Economic & Socio-Cultural Integration
Zoji La Tunnel, an engineering marvel as first of its kind on such tough terrain, situated at an altitude of 11578 feet on Srinagar-Kargil-Leh highway, where temperatures fall to -45 degrees, will be India’s longest road tunnel and Asia's longest bi-directional underground road to be built almost 400 metres beneath the existing highway. Currently, Ladakh remains cut-off from the rest of India fr...
BJP’s Sixth Straight Win in Gujarat is a Big Victory as it beats Five Term Anti-Incumbency
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) lead by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and party President Amit Shah has won elections in Gujarat for the sixth time winning 99 seats - 54.4% of the total 182 seats and got 49.1% vote share. It faced a tough battle against a renewed Congress that got 80 seats – 43.96% of total seats and 41.4% vote share, under the leadership of newly elected party president Rahul Gandh...
Significance of General Knowledge for Students
Current affairs dispersed like wildfire across the globe and are ultimately settled in the form of General Knowledge. Current affairs form a significant and inevitable part of our lives. All the important actions and decisions taken place around us get recorded in the current affairs under the category of general knowledge questions. Unlike earlier times, when exams were confined to the prescribed syllabus, in p...
Shangri-La Dialogue: India a Champion of Liberal International Order
Shangri-La Dialogue, Asia's premier defence summit that draws Defence Ministers from Asia-Pacific region, featured keynote address by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday June 1, 2018 in Singapore, attended by 600 delegates: defence officials and academics from 43 countries including US Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis. Modi outlined Ind...
Professionalism & Excellence in Police Service to Be Awarded
Police Medals to promote professionalism and excellence in service have been instituted on Wednesday July 11, 2018 by the Union Home Minister give recognition to those security personnel doing good work in stressful environment and in difficult areas. The awards scheme by the Government is aimed at recognising the good work, boosting morale and inspiring the Security personnel. These five non-ca...