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SP's MAI Issue No. 22 | November 16-30, 2017 - Military Updates

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    MILITARY / REPORT
    Regional challenges driving Indo-US relations
    By Dr Vivek Lall

    Both countries have discovered common ground and shared concerns, which have propelled them towards discarding old mistrusts and misconceptions, and adopting methods to establish renewed faith and confidence in each other

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    MILITARY / REPORT
    India-Italy to re-engage in defence
    By Ranjit Kumar

    The first Prime Ministerial visit from Italy in a decade was intended to mend the relations with an emerging Asian giant and a rising economic power, which is also set to be the biggest defence market in the coming years.

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    MILITARY / VIEWPOINT
    Different rifle for infantry and others?
    By Lt General P.C. Katoch (Retd)

    Going by media reports, the Army is going in for equipping infantry soldiers with a world-class assault rifle, while non-infantry soldiers would get a cheaper, ‘less effective’, indigenous rifle.

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    MILITARY / VIEWPOINT
    Afghanistan via Chabahar - Strategic move
    By Lt General P.C. Katoch (Retd)

    During the visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Iran in May 2016, The trilateral engagement between India, Iran and Afghanistan was historic, expanding avenues of trade for India with Iran, Afghanistan, Central Asia and Russia...

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    MILITARY / SPOTLIGHT
    4th JWGACTC meeting in India

    4th JWGACTC meeting in India The 4th meeting of the JWGACTC, constituted under the auspices of the Indo-US Defence Trade and Technology Initiative, was organised in India from October 29, to November 3, 2017.

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    MILITARY
    Defence Minister receives sacred soil of two martyred soldiers of WWI

    Delegation of Garhwal Rifles Regimental Centre recently returned with the sacred soil from the resting place of two soldiers of 39 Garhwal Rifles.

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    MILITARY
    Indo-Bangladesh Exercise 'Sampriti 2017' comes to an end

    Closing ceremony for the seventh Indo-Bangladesh joint exercise Sampriti was held at Counter Insurgency and Jungle Warfare School, Vairengte in Mizoram ton November 17, 2017.

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    MILITARY
    Navika Sagar Parikrama - INSV Tarini departs from Fremantle

    The Indian Naval Sailing Vessel (INSV) Tarini left Fremantle, Australia on November 5, 2017, for its onwards journey to Lyttleton, New Zealand.

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    MILITARY
    Lt General Bipin Puri is DG Armed Forces Medical Service

    Lt General Bipin Puri assumed the apex appointment of Director General Armed Forces Medical Service (DGAFMS) on November 1, 2017. An alumnus of the Armed Forces Medical College, Pune, the General Officer was commissioned in Indian Army (AMC) on March 30, 1979.

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    MILITARY
    INS Sarvekshak reaches Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania

    In an initiative to bolster bilateral relations with friendly foreign countries and navies in the Indian Ocean region, INS Sarvekshak, a hydrographic survey ship of Southern Naval Command, arrived Dar-es-Salaam Tanzania on November 15, 2017...