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IAF to hold air show over Dal Lake in Srinagar on 26 September

PTI -
The air show, part of the 'Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav' celebrations, aims to motivate the youth of the Valley to join the Air Force and promote tourism in the region.

Jalore emergency landing strip on highway shows era of standalone military projects is passé

Lt Gen H S Panag (retd) -
India was a pioneer of emergency landing strips during WW2 but didn’t revive it for a long time. Now it can give IAF more flexibility.

Rolls-Royce ready to co-develop, manufacture fighter aircraft engines in India

Snehesh Alex Philip -
Rolls-Royce's India and South Asia president Kishore Jayaraman says co-development is in line with ‘atmanirbhar’ design and manufacturing initiative.

C-130J Super Hercules lands on National Highway — Here’s a look at past landings on expressways

Raghav Bikhchandani -
On Thursday, the Indian Air Force conducted a mock emergency landing on NH-925 in Rajasthan's Barmer district with C-130J Super Hercules aircraft.

Will develop emergency landing strips in 15 days instead of 1.5 yrs, Gadkari promises IAF

PTI -
The NHAI took nearly 19 months to construct the emergency landing strip on Satta-Gandhav stretch on NH-925 in Rajasthan's Barmer that was inaugurated Thursday.

IAF looks to ‘atmanirbhar’ start-ups to boost India’s swarm drone capability

Snehesh Alex Philip -
IAF is set to issue a Request for Proposal for swarm drone contracts to 5 start-ups, selected firms to receive support from air force as well as DRDO.

25 yrs ago, an IAF Mi-17 was shot down while Army, Navy chiefs were touring Siachen

AVM Manmohan Bahadur (retd) -
After we landed at Siachen Base Camp, we got to know that a helicopter was shot down by Pakistan. We had to send back a message.

India evacuates 168 people from Kabul as security situation deteriorates in Afghanistan

PTI -
The MEA said the Modi government’s priority is to get accurate information about all Indian nationals currently in Afghanistan.

Maya, Bobby, Roobi — ITBP sniffer dogs who returned home from Kabul aboard IAF C-17 aircraft

Unnati Sharma -
The three K9 sniffer dogs had been deployed to secure the Indian Embassy in Kabul three years ago.

 Tejas criticism is unfortunate, it has world’s best flying record, says IAF veteran

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Henry George’s Single Tax offers a democratic alternative to communist remedies: DM Kulkarni

DM Kulkarni -
The immediate benefit of Single Tax would be to reduce the sale prices of land to nominal ones. Landowners would no longer find it profitable to keep idle lands, wrote DM Kulkarni in 1960.

Parineeta to Queen—What Hindi cinema’s marriages reveal about us

With MGNREGA dismantled, Modi govt now has to prepare for upheaval in rural economy

Economy

China is taking India to WTO over subsidies, again. Here’s what it’s arguing before trade body

Keshav Padmanabhan -
Dispute will now move to consultative process, which allows the two sides to come to an amicable agreement within 60 days.

Defence

Israel has ‘realised who its real friend is’, eyes defence expansion in India amid arms curbs by others

Snehesh Alex Philip -
It is argued that India-Israel ties are moving from buyer–seller dynamic to one focused on joint development & manufacturing partnership, a shift 'more durable' than traditional arms sales.

National Interest

Dhurandhar shows hard cinema is soft power and Pakistan is unapologetically the target

Shekhar Gupta -
If Pathaan gave both conservatives and liberals room to hide, Dhurandhar extends no such courtesy. Aditya Dhar ripped open that tent of hypocrisy and turned the knife.

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