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Moving Through Mountains, Jungles, Army Rescues 245 People In Sikkim
In a daring mission conducted in North Sikkim, troops of the Indian Army's Trishakti Corps rescued 245 people stranded in the village of Rabom due to flashfloods in Sikkim, officials said on Sunday.
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Couple Ate Squirrel Believed To Have Health Benefits. They Died Of Plague
For days, the dusty roads of a small town in Mongolia's westernmost province were largely deserted. "After the quarantine was announced, not many people - even locals - were in the streets for fear of catching the disease," Sebastian Pique, an American Peace Corps volunteer who has lived in the remote mountainous region for two years, told the Agen...
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India Clears Purchase Of 145 Ultra-Light Howitzer Guns From US
India will be buying 145 ultra-light howitzers from the United States for the upcoming Mountain Strike Corps - raised in 2013 - to defend India's border with China.
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Can't Divulge Information On Mountain Strike Corps: Manohar Parrikar
Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar on Tuesday refused to divulge information on the Mountain Strike Corps being raised by the Indian Army, saying it would not be in the "national interest".
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Kolkata Flyover Collapse: Army Preps For All-Night Rescue
The army has sent five columns - around 400 soldiers and engineers - and three medical teams to Kolkata, where an under-construction flyover collapsed today, killing at least 18 people and trapping scores of people under hundreds of tons of steel and concrete. A special team of engineers from Panagarh-based Mountain Strike Corps is also on way.
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Raising Of Mountain Strike Corps By 6 Years: Army Chief General Dalbir Singh
Army chief General Dalbir Singh Suhag today said that the Mountain Strike Corps, aimed at countering threats from China, would be raised as per the schedule by 2021 and termed acquisition of artillery guns and third generation missiles as "critical areas" for modernisation of the force.
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Army Commanders Meet to Discuss Operational Issues, Modernisation Plan
Top Army commanders met in New Delhi today to discuss threadbare operational issues, modernisation programme, and review the formation of Mountain Strike Corps and developmental activities along the border with China.
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More Men or Better Technology? Government Rethinking Strategy to Counter China: Sources
India is said to be re-thinking a decision made two years ago to raise a mountain strike corps to guard the hilly northern borders with China. Sources said the government is now weighing whether it will make more sense to invest in better technology rather than raise an 80,000 strong force at considerable expense.
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Only 20 Per Cent of India-China Strategic Border Roads Ready Till Now
Out of over 3000 kilometres of roads to be built along the India-China border to allow faster movement of troops and better connectivity, only 600 kilometres have been built till date.
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For China, Army Has New Troops. But No Funds.
Army using crucial reserves to fund Mountain Corps, writes Nitin Gokhale.
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Moving Through Mountains, Jungles, Army Rescues 245 People In Sikkim
In a daring mission conducted in North Sikkim, troops of the Indian Army's Trishakti Corps rescued 245 people stranded in the village of Rabom due to flashfloods in Sikkim, officials said on Sunday.
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Couple Ate Squirrel Believed To Have Health Benefits. They Died Of Plague
For days, the dusty roads of a small town in Mongolia's westernmost province were largely deserted. "After the quarantine was announced, not many people - even locals - were in the streets for fear of catching the disease," Sebastian Pique, an American Peace Corps volunteer who has lived in the remote mountainous region for two years, told the Agen...
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India Clears Purchase Of 145 Ultra-Light Howitzer Guns From US
India will be buying 145 ultra-light howitzers from the United States for the upcoming Mountain Strike Corps - raised in 2013 - to defend India's border with China.
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Can't Divulge Information On Mountain Strike Corps: Manohar Parrikar
Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar on Tuesday refused to divulge information on the Mountain Strike Corps being raised by the Indian Army, saying it would not be in the "national interest".
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Kolkata Flyover Collapse: Army Preps For All-Night Rescue
The army has sent five columns - around 400 soldiers and engineers - and three medical teams to Kolkata, where an under-construction flyover collapsed today, killing at least 18 people and trapping scores of people under hundreds of tons of steel and concrete. A special team of engineers from Panagarh-based Mountain Strike Corps is also on way.
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Raising Of Mountain Strike Corps By 6 Years: Army Chief General Dalbir Singh
Army chief General Dalbir Singh Suhag today said that the Mountain Strike Corps, aimed at countering threats from China, would be raised as per the schedule by 2021 and termed acquisition of artillery guns and third generation missiles as "critical areas" for modernisation of the force.
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Army Commanders Meet to Discuss Operational Issues, Modernisation Plan
Top Army commanders met in New Delhi today to discuss threadbare operational issues, modernisation programme, and review the formation of Mountain Strike Corps and developmental activities along the border with China.
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More Men or Better Technology? Government Rethinking Strategy to Counter China: Sources
India is said to be re-thinking a decision made two years ago to raise a mountain strike corps to guard the hilly northern borders with China. Sources said the government is now weighing whether it will make more sense to invest in better technology rather than raise an 80,000 strong force at considerable expense.
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Only 20 Per Cent of India-China Strategic Border Roads Ready Till Now
Out of over 3000 kilometres of roads to be built along the India-China border to allow faster movement of troops and better connectivity, only 600 kilometres have been built till date.
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For China, Army Has New Troops. But No Funds.
Army using crucial reserves to fund Mountain Corps, writes Nitin Gokhale.
