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Saturday, October 25, 2025
TopicLandmines

Topic: landmines

All about Ottawa Convention banning landmines, Ukraine’s proposal & why it can set-off wrong signals

The treaty, also known as Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention, bans production & use of indiscriminate anti-personnel mines that continue to maim and kill even after conflicts.

Deployed in Ukraine, Russia’s anti-tank ‘jumping mines’ have even US devising similar munitions

Ukrainian troops had earlier captured PTKM-1R, which targets top of tank or armoured personnel carrier. Acoustic & seismic sensors help it to select moving enemy assets.

10 killed, 16 injured in attack on workers of British landmine clearance charity in Afghanistan

The workers were employed by the British-American charity The HALO Trust, which has been clearing landmines in Afghanistan since 1988.

Not bullets but explosives cause maximum injuries to Army personnel: Study

The study for the period 2014-19 has found that 80% of limb injuries were due to explosions caused by artillery shells and anti-personnel landmines.

Global death toll from landmines doubled since 2013, says report

According to the Landmine Monitor report, 71 per cent of the casualties were civilians out of which half were children.

On Camera

Piyush Pandey brought the language of small towns into ad agency corridors: Prasoon Joshi

Piyush was about celebration—of life, of people, of stories. He believed that what we create can shape popular culture, can make people feel proud of who they are.

US sanctions Rosneft & Lukoil: What we know of 2 oil giants that produce half of Russia’s crude

Rosneft, the Russian state-owned oil behemoth, has large interests in India. Reliance has a contract to purchase 500,000 barrels of crude per day from the firm.

From battle of wits and daring air strikes to artillery fury, new details emerge of Operation Sindoor

Fresh details of operation conducted by IAF, Army have come out in gazette notification giving citations of those who were awarded Vir Chakra for their bravery.

CJI, IPS, IAS & Homebound: A wake-up call 75 years in the making

Education, reservations, govt jobs are meant to bring equality and dignity. That we are a long way from that is evident in the shoe thrown at the CJI and the suicide of Haryana IPS officer. The film Homebound has a lesson too.