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NATIONAL
NEWS
- ISRO to the rescue after red flag over thai satellite for CCTNS
- Warned by intelligence agencies that using a foreign satellite in the proposed nationwide Crime and Criminal Tracking Network and Systems (CCTNS) could make a critical database vulnerable to eavesdropping by other countries, the Union Home Ministry has decided to take the help of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) to make the project fully indigenous.
- Despite high bandwidth charges being proposed by the ISRO — almost three times that of the IPSTAR satellite managed by Thaicomm of Thailand — the CCTNS will get half of its 800-odd VSATs (two-way ground satellite systems) from the BSNL (network agency) while the remaining VSAT requirements will be met by the ISRO.
- When fully operational, the much-delayed CCTNS project will connect 14,000 police stations across all the 35 States and Union Territories, thus creating a nation-wide networking infrastructure for evolution of IT-enabled sophisticated tracking system around ‘investigation of crime and detection of criminals’.
- Indian fishermen may go to Sri lanka for talks
- In an attempt to find a solution to the issue of Indian fishermen allegedly engaging in illegal fishing activity in Sri Lankan waters, a group of Indian fishermen may go to Sri Lanka to hold talks with their counterparts.
- Fishermen in the north - primarily Tamils - are just about returning to their fishing trade after struggling for survival during the 30-year-old ethnic conflict. According to them, often trawlers from India are spotted very close to the Sri Lankan coast.
- INS vikramaditya sea trials successful
- India’s second aircraft carrier, the 45,000-tonne INS Vikramaditya — a retrofitted Russian carrier formerly named Admiral Gorshkov dating back to the 1980s — has successfully completed sea trial of achieving top speed of 32 knots
- It will now head for the White Sea where aviation trials will be conducted
OPINION/EDITORIALS
- Article on why NFSB is affordable
- Article on manual scavenging
- Article on the use of drones
- Article on the reasoning behind the new mountain strike corps
- Editorial on death sentences
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