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Topic: IBGs

Rollout of Gen Bipin Rawat’s Integrated Battle Groups begins with China-focused 17 Mountain Strike Corps

IBGs made their debut under a trial in 2019 and are meant to enable the Army to launch quick offensive ops in 204 hours through agile self-sufficient strike formations.

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The chaos behind India’s first census

Breaking away from fragmented estimates, regional experiments between 1850 and 1872 laid the groundwork for today's massive census operations.

Russia supplied 50% of India’s crude in June. Iraqi supplies decline, Iran crude not returning soon

Oil industry analysts say Indian refiners have little need for additional supplies as most crude requirements till the first half of August are already secured.

Rollout of Gen Bipin Rawat’s Integrated Battle Groups begins with China-focused 17 Mountain Strike Corps

IBGs made their debut under a trial in 2019 and are meant to enable the Army to launch quick offensive ops in 204 hours through agile self-sufficient strike formations.

Publisher ban on Sacco’s brilliant Muzaffarnagar riot comic is a cynical joke on India’s freedoms

Sacco’s ‘reporting’ is incredibly granular but there are areas where he can be faulted. Don’t let this undermine where his true focus is, in showing how local disputes led to riots.