Lt General Hooda said that AFSPA is being misused by Human Rights groups to defame the Army and that he could say with confidence that our Army has an excellent human rights record.
The joint ops were planned for days and started on February 17. By March 2, it is reported that all terrorist camps along the Mizoram border were destroyed.
Attacking the previous UPA government led by Congress, Sitharaman also revealed how the UPA government never utilised the defence budget for the acquisition of weapons and technology that was needed for Indian armed forces.
INS Kohassa will become the third Naval Air Base in the region after INS Utkrosh at Port Blair and INS Baaz at Campbell Bay, while Indian Airforce has an independent air base at Car Nicobar known as Car Nicobar AFS.
The National Investigative Agency (NIA) in a joint operation with the Uttar Pradesh anti-terrorism squad had earlier conducted raids on 17 locations in Delhi and Uttar Pradesh in connection with a new ISIS module named ‘Harkat ul Harb-e-Islam’.
The Chabahar project provides excellent connectivity opportunity to countries like Iran, Afghanistan and most importantly, bypasses the Pakistan land corridors and Karachi port to transport goods to the Central Asia region