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Topic: landmines

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

Kritika Rajput -
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

Unnati Sharma -
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

Snehesh Alex Philip -
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

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

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Opinion

BJP has a problem of plenty in Phase 2. It can only go down from that

+TFP Yogendra Yadav -
BJP’s fate in the second phase of 2024 Lok Sabha election will be decided in Karnataka, Rajasthan, and Maharashtra, where it performed very well in 2019 but faces a stiff competition now.

Rajkummar Rao must keep his chin up. Questions will be asked and he’s no victim

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Economy

Kotak Mahindra Bank shares drop 10% after RBI bans it from taking new customers via digital channels

Bharath Rajeswaran -
The private lender's shares tumbled to be top Nifty 50 loser after India's central bank barred it from taking on new customers through online and mobile banking channels.

Defence

Rafale to Exercise Garuda, a look at Indo-French defence ties as Chief of Defence Staff visits France

Smruti Deshpande -
Another addition to military cooperation has been the Strategic Space Dialogue, inaugurated in Paris in 2023. Last month, India participated as an observer to France’s AsterX.

National Interest

These 6 states are key for Modi’s ‘400 paar’ target. They’re also where Opposition can stop him

Shekhar Gupta -
While this contest looks so predictable in large swathes of our political landscape, it is also more keenly contested than 2019 in some states.

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