Every year on December 4, the Indian Navy organises a Beating Retreat ceremony at the Gateway of India in Mumbai to commemorate the audacious attack carried out by the Indian missile boats on the Pakistani Navy headquarters, Karachi on December 4, 1971.
In August last year, the Defence Acquisition Council (DAC) had approved the procurement of 111 utility helicopters for the Indian Navy at a cost of over Rs 21,000 crore as the first under the SP model.
Turkey President Recep Tayyip Erdogan had broached the issue of Jammu and Kashmir at the United Nations General Assembly recently, taking an anti-India stand.
Eventually, after 21 days of an extensive search operation, PNS Saad was located on the western side of Pakistan to protect it from any attack if hostilities between the nuclear-armed neighbours escalated.