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Indian Army gets 'Bharat' drones for accurate surveillance along China bor
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 21 (ANI) Amid the ongoing boundary dispute between India and China, DRDO has provided its indigenously-developed drone named Bharat to the Indian Army for carrying out accurate surveillance in high altitude areas and mountainous terrain along the Line of Actual Con
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Dr Jitendra Singh inaugurates bridges in J-K 's Udhampur, Doda districts
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 25 (ANI): Union Minister Dr Jitendra Singh on Wednesday inaugurated two bridges Devika and Puneja in Jammu and Kashmir's Udhampur and Doda districts respectively through a virtual platform.
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PLA Tibetan Military Command conducts live-fire drills
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Beijing [China], June 24 (ANI): Chinese Defense Ministry spokesperson Wu Qian on Wednesday said that the PLA Tibet Military Command has conducted comprehensive live-fire drills on high-altitude plateau to test the troops' joint combat capability.
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Himachal govt planning to cultivate first plantation of asafoetida, saffro
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Shimla (Himachal Pradesh) [India], June 22 (ANI): Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur on Monday said that the state government is planning to cultivate the first plantation of asafoetida commonly known as heeng, saffron in high altitude areas of Kinnaur, Lahaul-Spiti and Chamba di
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Indian military maintains edge over Chinese PLA in high-altitude mountaino
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington DC [USA], June 18 (ANI): Conventional wisdom suggests that China hold a significant military advantage over India, but recent studies from the Belfer Center at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government in Boston and the Center for a New American Security in Washington suggests that
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IAF inducts indigenously developed pod ARPIT for evacuation of critical pa
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 9 (ANI): Indian Air Force has designed, developed and inducted an Airborne Rescue Pod for Isolated Transportation (ARPIT) which will be utilised for the evacuation of critical patients with infectious diseases including COVID-19 from high altitude area, isolated an
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Study reveals how cardiorespiratory function is related to genetics
Updated : 6 years ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Feb 27 (ANI): Researchers say that the effect of high altitudes on people's breathing and its coordination with the heartbeat is due to genetic differences.
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Chinook helicopters operationalised in high-altitude locations including S
Updated : 6 years ago IST
New Delhi [India], February 21 (ANI): Indian Air Force's American-origin Chinook helicopters have started getting operationalised in the high-altitude locations including the Siachen glacier area in the Ladakh sector and are ferrying military equipment to higher reaches.
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CAG report 'a little outdated', every jawan who goes to Siachen gets perso
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 4 (ANI): Army Chief General MM Naravane on Tuesday said the report by the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) tabled in parliament on Monday regarding condition of troops in high altitude areas was "a little outdated" and stressed that every jawan who goes to Siachen
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NMCG conserves wetlands in Ganga basin
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Dehradun (Uttarakhand) [India], Jan 19 (ANI): Deoria Tal, one of the high altitude wetlands in Uttarakhand, is an untouched marvel of nature.
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Galactic gamma-ray source map reveals birthplaces of high-energy particles
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Jan 15 (ANI): In a new catalogue compiled by researchers, nine sources of extremely high-energy gamma rays have been identified.
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Six seriously ill tourists evacuated to Army medical facility in Leh
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Ladakh [India], Jan 14 (ANI): Six seriously ill tourists who were suffering from the effects of frostbite and High Altitude Pulmonary Odema (HAPO) were on Tuesday evacuated by the helicopters to the Indian Army medical facility in Leh.
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