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The Ministry of Defence has finalized two contracts, amounting to Rs 802 crore, for the acquisition of military equipment. Jupiter Wagons will supply 697 Bogie Open Military (BOM) Wagons for Rs 473 crore, while BEML (Bharat Earth Movers Limited) will provide 56 Mechanical Minefield Marking Equipment (MMME) Mark II at a cost of Rs 329 crore.

The Ministry of Defence signed two contracts on Thursday for procurement of 697 Bogie Open Military (BOM) Wagons at a cost of Rs 473 crore with M/s Jupiter Wagons Limited and the procurement of 56 Mechanical Minefield Marking Equipment (MMME) ...

The BOM Wagons and MMME will be produced with equipment and sub-system sourced from indigenous manufacturers, giving a boost to the indigenous manufacturing and participation of the private sector in defence production, realising the vision of ''Atmanirbhar Bharat'', the MoD said in a press release.

An array of Christian and faith organizations have called for the rejection of weapons systems that select targets without meaningful human control using killer robots, saying they are unacceptable and need to be banned.

Irish soldiers monitoring the "Blue Line" separating Israel and Lebanon - one of the most dangerous areas in the world - have been deployed as part of multi-national commitment to preventing conflict and to detect and deter hostile fire. But fears are growing of an "all out war".

The war in Lebanon, which began one day after the conflict in Gaza, looks and sounds like a militarised version of hide and seek.

The Israeli army fired shells containing white phosphorus, an incendiary weapon, in military operations along Lebanon’s southern border.

Amnesty International says the Israeli occupation is bombing southern Lebanon using internationally prohibited white phosphorus.

It is beyond horrific that the Israeli army has indiscriminately used white phosphorous in violation of international humanitarian law. The unlawful use of white phosphorus in Lebanon in the town of Dhayra on 16 October has seriously endangered the lives of civilians, many of whom were hospitalized and displaced

Last autumn, the US, the UK and France warned Russia about the consequences of using nuclear weapons in its full-scale war against Ukraine which removed the nuclear threat from the Russian rhetoric for a long time.