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US Defence Secy to visit India to discuss partnership US Defence Secy to visit India to discuss partnership Last Updated: Sat, Mar 13th, 2021, 13:03:13hrs In New Delhi, Austin will "discuss operationalising the major defence partnership that we have with India, including through enhanced information sharing, regional security cooperation, defence trade, and cooperation in new domains", Acting Assistant Defence Secretary for Indo-Pacific, David F. Helvey said on Friday after the Quad summit. He ...

Austin will also travel to Korea and Japan ahead of his India visit.

Kobi Shabtai, commander of the Border Police, on September 28, 2017 (Moshe Shai/Flash90) Currently, most positions in the military are open to both men and women, save for infantry brigades, armored brigades, submarines, certain elite reconnaissance units, and a small number of other positions. There are also fully integrated mixed-gender combat units such as the Caracal and Bardelas battalions, which are tasked with protecting Israel’s border with Egypt and Jordan, respectively, as well as a...

On the heels of the Quad summit US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin will visit India next week to meet Defence Minister Rajnath Singh as Washington focuses on China as an emerging threat according to a Pentagon official

Republican demands answers after canceled troop vaccination reports Rebecca Kheel © Greg Nash Republican demands answers after canceled troop vaccination reports A top Republican congressman is demanding answers on the Pentagons COVID-19 vaccination plans after reports of delayed and canceled appointments for U.S. service members and families overseas. "Our men and women serving their country - especially those who are serving abroad, away from their family and friends and, i...

Nursing cadets take out ‘alankrit’ parade during commissioning Lucknow: Following in the footsteps of Florence Nightingale, the third batch of 39 young women cadets passed out from College of Nursing, Command Hospital, Central Command and were commissioned in Indian Army as nursing officer with rank of lieutenant. The commissioning ceremony of probationer nurses took place on Wednesday at Army Medical Corps (AMC) followed by oath and ‘alankrit’ parade in the presence of reviewing offic...

 11 Mar 2021 - 9:06 The Peninsula Doha: Qatar’s female labour participation rate of 59.1 percent is currently above the global average and the highest in the Arab world, Qatari Businesswomen Association’s (QBWA) Vice-Chairwoman Aisha Al Fardan (pictured) has said.  Al Fardan was speaking as the featured keynote speaker at a webinar on ‘Qatari Businesswomen: Shaping the Present. Leading the Future’, which was organised by the Qatari Embassy in the US in partnership with Association of...

The Ending of George Lucas THX 1138 Explained 1970s science fiction isnt known for being hopeful. THX 1138 is the tentative exception. Warner Bros. For a film as relentlessly propulsive as  THX 1138 (1971), it is difficult to pinpoint the true beginning of the end. Is it when LUH 3417 ( Maggie McOmie) weens her unwitting roommate, THX ( Robert Duvall), off his state-mandated sedatives? Or when, returning to his job without a drug-induced steady hand, THX drops a radioactive cylinder of magnum,...

Thursday, 11 March 2021 16:20 Exercise Eagle Sokol is a bilateral training exercise with the Slovenian Armed Forces focused on the rapid deployment and assembly of forces and team cohesion with weapon systems tactics and procedures. U.S. Army Paratroopers assigned to the Dog Company,1st Battalion, 503rd Infantry Regiment, 173rd Airborne Brigade, engage the targets during blank-fire exercise as part of Eagle Sokol 21 at Pocek Range in Postonja, Slovenia, March 9  (Picture source: U.S. Army/P...

Silently Disciplining Research By Reseach Professor Emeritus at Prio, Ola Tunander, Modern Times, Ny Tid, Whistleblower supplement, March 6, 2021 Researchers who question the legitimacy of US wars, seem to experience being ousted from their positions in research and media institutions. The example presented here is from the Institute for Peace Research in Oslo (PRIO), an institution which historically has had researchers critical of wars of aggression – and who can hardly be labeled friends...