Category: Defence Current Affairs

Exercise Dharma Guardian-2023: A joint military exercise Dharma Guardian between India and Japan to begin from 17 February 2023 at Camp Imazu in Japan. Exercise Dharma Guardian-2023: is the 4th joint military exercise between India and Japan which is being conducted since 2018. The scope of this exercise covers platoon-level joint training on operations in […]

Seven New Battalions Of The Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) Force: Indo-Tibetan Border Police is one of the Central Armed Police Forces of India. It is a specialized mountain force and most of the officers and men are professionally trained mountaineers and skiers. It was raised in 1962, in the wake of the Sino-Indian War of […]

14th Edition Of Aero India 2023: The Prime Minister of India inaugurated the 14th edition of Aero India 2023 in Bengaluru. Aero India is a premier global aviation trade fair, which provides an opportunity for the Indian aviation-defence industry, to showcase its products, technologies and solutions to the national decision-makers. The Aero India show is […]

Remembering Pulwama Attack: Pulwama district is in Jammu and Kashmir. In 2023, the CPRF marked the fourth anniversary of its fellowmen. The Pulwama Attack killed more than 40 CPRF personnel on February 14, 2019. The Jaish-e-Mohammed terrorist group claimed responsibility for the attack. The attack was conducted by a vehicle-borne suicide bomber. The UN and […]

Ramping Up Border Infrastructure: According to India’s External Affairs Minister, the government’s recent border infrastructure projects focus on the north and east along India’s 3,488 km border with China (or LAC). Reports claim that Indian forces have lost access to 26 of 65 patrolling points along the LAC since 2020. The timing is crucial because […]

TARKASH : Indo-US joint exercise It is an ongoing Indo-US joint exercise (TARKASH) by the National Security Guard (NSG) and US Special Operations Forces (SOF) has for the first time included “Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear (CBRN) terror response” in its drill The exercise comes against the backdrop of Russian allegations against Ukraine last year […]

Status Of India’s Nuclear Energy: India’s nuclear power capacity experienced a significant increase. By 2021-22, it had risen to 47,112 Million Units. In 2017, the government gave simultaneous approval for 11 indigenous pressurised heavy water reactors with a total capacity of 7,000 MegaWatts. Nuclear energy is the fifth-largest source of electricity for India which contributes […]

Hybrid Warfare : Strategy Used In Millitary Hybrid Warfare is a strategy used in the military. It includes the techniques of conventional warfare, cyber warfare, and irregular warfare. Countries are using political influences to disrupt the governance of their enemy state, causing cyber troubles to the enemy state, and using other indirect measures to counter […]

Landing Of INS Vikrant: The Naval variant of the indigenous Light Combat Aircraft undertakes its maiden landing onboard the country’s first Indigenous Aircraft Carrier INS Vikrant. INS Vikrant: It is the first ever indigenously designed and constructed aircraft carrier which will strengthen the country’s stand as a ‘Blue Water Navy’. The ship has been designed […]

Surveillance Balloon: The United States (US) shot down a Chinese surveillance balloon that has been spotted over US airspace for a couple of days. These cheap, quiet and hard-to-reach balloons have been used for reconnaissance purposes, including in conflicts like the American Civil War. The practice became widespread during World War I and was used […]