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1971 STORY From an officer.... During 1971 war my Bn (3 Grenadiers) fought the Battle of Jarpal. 3 Grenadiers captured Jarpal which was defended by 35 FF. In this battle 3 Grenadiers was awarded a PVC (to then Maj Hoshiyar Singh), a MVC (then CO, Lt Col V P Airy), 4 VrCs and host of other awards. Incidentally Kheterpal was also awarded PVC in the same battle. 35 FF launched seven counter attacks on 3 Grenadiers. The last one was led by their CO, Lt Col Mohd Akram Raza. During the counter attack he was hit by a MMG burst on the face and succumbed to his injuries. Lt Col Airy, CO 3 Grenadiers wrote his citation and the offr was posthumously awarded Hilal-e-Jurat (I think eqvt of our MVC). Later when 3 Grenadiers was in Ethiopia one of the offrs of 35 FF was also in the msn. He was invited to all the functions to mark our battle honour day, in which his bn was decimated ( 8 offrs, incl CO and over 350 other rks KIA). I must say it was to the credit of the Pakistani offr

Air passengers at a growing number of U.S. airports will no longer need to remove electronics, liquids, and other items from their carry-on luggage at security checkpoints as the Transportation Security Administration rolls out new technology. The TSA took a major step in a broader plan to revamp its overall screening process with faster, more advanced technology when it signed a contract Thursday for hundreds of new carry-on baggage screening machines, Administrator David Pekoske said on a press call Friday. The agency has tested the new technology at more than a dozen airports since 2017, along with the relaxed protocols that allow passengers to leave items such as laptops and toiletries inside their luggage. The rollout of the computed tomography, or CT, machines will begin this summer, Pekoske said. The $97 million contract will buy 300 machines, but the list of airports receiving them has yet to be made final, Pekoske said. A Transportation Security Administration

Trials of new biometric systems are launching and continuing at several airports around the world, as airports and airlines seek to increase automation to speed up identification processes. SITA  Smart Path has been deployed for a trial of using facial recognition instead of a boarding pass for security processing at Athens International Airport, the company announced. The airport, Greece’s largest, is the first in Europe to use biometric identity at security, according to the announcement. “Passengers really appreciate the ease of using SITA’s Smart Path trial,” says Alexandros Ziomas, acting director of Athens International Airport’s IT&T Business Unit. “It has reduced the time taken to check in and verify passenger identity at security to only a few seconds. It will solve a key challenge for us by ensuring a steady flow of passengers to the security area. This is a service we would like to extend to other steps in the journey over time.” The biometric service is being

राफेल का धमाका : राफेल सौदे से कांग्रेस को जितना कमीशन मिलने वाला था, उससे भी अधिक रकम चीन से कांग्रेस ने राफेल नहीं खरीदने के नाम पर डकार ली, और ऐ.के.ऐन्टोनी से बयान दिलवा दिया कि भारत के पास फंड नहीं है, खरीद नहीं सकते। अब मोदी जी के शासन में सौदा हो गया है, तब चीन ने मियां राहुल को तलब किया। राहुल ने भारत में चीनी दूतावास में जाकर राफेल के बारे में सफ़ाई दी। मगर चीनी अधिकारी संतुष्ट नहीं हुए, और वे बोले "राहुल बाबा, राफेल के मामलों में तुम चीन जाकर बात कर लो, अन्यथा खाया माल वापस कर दो!" अब राहुल दूतावास से बाहर आकर बोला कि "हम डोकलाम के विषय पर बात करने गए थे!" इस मूर्ख पप्पू ने भारत के लोगों को पप्पू बना दिया। अब चीन के बुलावे पर चीन जाये तो जाये कैसे? तब युक्ति निकाली गई कि राहुल बाबा मानसरोवर यात्रा चीन के रास्ते जाएगा। मगर सिर्फ चीन जाकर राफेल नहीं खरीदने का कमीशन जो पप्पू ने खाया था, उसके सामने चीन ने दो शर्तें रखीं: एक, मोदी के शासन में खरीदा सौदा जैसे भी हो, कैंसल करवाओ, या उसमें क्या-क्या उपकरण लगवाए जा रहे हैं, हमें बताओ। दूसरा, अगर ये नहीं कर

Defence minister with vision needed The recent bizarre defence of the MoD against denial of Non-Functional Upgradation to the armed forces on the pretext of palatial houses, army schools and other facilities including Military Service Pay has enhanced the divide between the MoD and the armed forces expected to operate under them. Harsha Kakar | New Delhi | March 26, 2019 12:10 am      Ministry of Defence, Government of India. (Image: Facebook/@DefenceMinIndia) In his eulogy to Manohar Parrikar, Nitin Gokhale writes of a conversation with him soon after he took over as the defence minister. Parrikar stated, “In these two-three months that I have been here (MoD), the most striking aspect I noticed is the all-pervasive atmosphere of suspicion. Everyone is looking over his or her own shoulder. There is very little coordination; the overwhelming tendency is to first say ‘no’ to everything.” It was this that he had tried to overcome. These words are the closest to the truth con

I qbal Chand Malhotra Iqbal Chand Malhotra is an award-winning TV producer There is more to Balakot than the numbers THE BJP PRESIDENT Amit Shah may not have been far-off the mark when he claimed that 250 terrorists were killed during the Indian Air Force’s air strike on Balakot at around 3:30 am local time on February 26th, 2019. However, Shah would never be able to provide the evidence to back his claim. Revealing the evidence would violate the charter of ‘The MOU on Geosynchronous Earth Orbit and Low Earth Orbit Optical Link’ signed between Prime Ministers Modi and Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel on July 5th, 2017 in New Delhi. This MoU permits Indian and Israeli satellites to ‘talk to each other’. Let me explain further. EL/M-2070 Tec SAR, also known as Tech SAR, Polaris and Ofek-8, is an Israeli Reconnaissance Satellite equipped with synthetic aperture radar developed by Elta Systems. It was successfully launched on January 21st, 2008, by PSLV C-10, Launch Vehicle, from S

THE TALE OF TSD or Technical Services Division - the tragic tale of Col Hunny Bakshi and the betrayal of capable officers as also the Nation, by those within (from a posting in Quora) What could have stopped a Pulwama like attack? India did have the capability, but that capability was dismantled.  This is purportedly the story of the top-secret military intelligence unit of Indian army, TSD (Technical Support Division) and how it was sabotaged by UPA-II govt, hand in gloves with indian media, much to the relief of Pakistani establishment and ISI. And how they ruined the life of some of the finest men in uniform in the process.  A movie named Aiyaari was based on this unit but it was fictional account, much adulterated, loosing the real account. Truth is indeed stranger than fiction. THE FORMATION OF TSD After 26/11 attacks, Indian military realized the failure and inefficiency of existing Indian intelligence units i.e. RAW and IB to be an effective counter agains