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You jump out of an aircraft thousands of feet high up from the sea level and then your parachute turns out to be defective.

From 2020-2021 and 2023-24, of the 73242 parachutes manufacturerd by gliders India limited that were inspected, 9609 - over 13 percent were returned for rectification.

GIL is defence public sector undertaking engaged in manufacture of parachutes and aerial delivery systems primarily for armed forces. It was established in 2021 following the corporatisation of OFB under the department of defence production, ministry of defence.

The defects included defective stitching (in 33 percent of cases), defects in outer pack (16 percent), defective rigging lines (14 percent) and shade variation in the canopy (9 percent), besides zigzag stitching and uneven rigging lines, etc.

The CAG scrutiny of 11 lots of parachutes revealed production shortfalls in 9 out of 11 cases, ranging from 1 percent to 100 percent.

Of the GIL's total 34 types of parachutes in the product line, the 11 lots selected for audit included parachutes for tactical assault, high altitude, for cargo drops, for aircraft braking systems, for paradropping of high artillery guns etc.

The Supreme Court has directed the Centre to grant extraordinary family pension and additional compensation of Rs 10 lakh to the widow of Shaurya Chakra awardee Mohan Singh, bringing an end to a 26-year legal battle over her entitlement.

The court also expressed concern that the families of soldiers who make the ultimate sacrifice should not have to fight prolonged legal battles to secure their rightful benefits.

Mohan Singh lost his life on July 10, 2000, while working on a strategic road project along the India-China border. According to the court records, he rescued fellow workers trapped under falling debris during a landslide before being buried under the rubble himself.

For recognition of his bravery, the Centre posthumously conferred upon him the Shaurya Chakra, India's third-highest peacetime gallantry award, in 2001.

Government agencies have placed orders worth around Rs 155 crore for the Indrajaal Ranger, according to reports. These include a Rs 145 crore order for border-security deployment and a separate Rs 10 crore order for use by urban police.

Unlike conventional Counter-Unmanned Aircraft Systems, which primarily protect fixed military and strategic installations, the Ranger is designed to detect, track, identify and counter unauthorised drones while on the move.

The Ranger is powered by the company’s SkyOS platform and combines sensors, artificial intelligence, sensor fusion and command-and-control systems with multiple counter-drone measures.

The platform uses three protection layers to respond to different types of drone threats.

The first, called “Retractor”, electronically takes control of a rogue drone, allowing security personnel to recover it and conduct a forensic examination.

The “Lakshman Rekha” layer creates a virtual boundary intended to prevent unauthorised drones from entering protected airspace.

The third layer, called “Net Interceptor”, physically intercepts and captures a hostile drone when electronic countermeasures prove inadequate.

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With a trainee onboard, a Su-30 MKI fighter aircraft suffered a catastrophic systems failure resulting in the aircraft and its crew experiencing aerodynamic forces and physical stress well beyond normal limits, but the pilot-in-command demonstrated exceptional situational awareness and airmanship in a critical situation and managed to bring the aircraft back to base.

For his actions, the pilot, Squadron Leader Sudhir Kumar, was decorated with the Shaurya Chakra on Independence Day.

On September 9, 2025, Squadron Leader Sudhir Kumar, posted as a supervisor with a frontline fighter squadron, was authorised to fly as captain of a Su-30 for a low-flying and low-level navigation sortie by night from the rear cockpit of the aircraft, accompanied by an under-training pilot in the front cockpit.

During landing, at an altitude of 2.2 km and a speed of 740 kmph, the aircraft experienced a catastrophic failure that manifested as violent oscillations in the longitudinal plane accompanied by multiple indicators of the fly-by-wire (FBW) system failure.

This critical situation resulted in drastic pitch variations, that is the upward and downward movement of the aircraft’s nose, ranging from 45 degrees to minus 15 degrees, extreme g-loads spanning from minus 1.5-g to 12-g along with ‘angle of attack’ (AOA) indications exceeding 24 units, according to information shared by the IAF.

Under extreme conditions of rapidly varying g-loads and pitch, he maintained a composed and calm demeanour, swiftly taking control of the situation and instructing the front pilot to reset the failed FBW channels.

Without any external frame of reference and unable to discern the aircraft instruments due to blurring of vision, he demonstrated extraordinary airmanship and intuition by promptly re-opening power on the aircraft. This prevented a potentially cataclysmic accident that could have occurred due to rapid loss of airspeed.

Between 2015-16 and 2019-20 the factories received either "no demand or very little demand" from the armed forces for some of their main products, including 5.56mm INSAS rifle, 5.56 light machine gun and 9mm auto pistol.

The indian army accounted for just 10 percent of total issues during this period and the factories were largely dependent on orders from home ministry.

For 5.56 INSAS rifle and 5.56 LMG, the factories managed to utilise a maximum of only 29 percent of their respective production capabilities between 2015-20.

The R&D projects also failed to meet their objectives. During the period being audited, the armed forces resorted to import of small arms - 7.62 ×51 assault/sniper/LMG for their operational requirements.

It is also found that all three small arms factories were simultaneously working on weapons of the same calibre.

The small arms factories operated with high overheads pushing up the unit cost of the production. At the same time issue prices were fixed substantially below the actual production costs.

This resulted in cumulative losses of 366cr across the three factories on 12 selected small arms between 2015 and 2020.

Two Indian farmers from West Bengal's Nadia district were kidnapped and taken into Bangladesh by a group of Bangladeshi farmers on Tuesday who were seeking the release of a farmer allegedly detained by the Border Security Force (BSF), the Dhaka-based newspaper Prothom Alo reported.

Prothom Alo identified the abducted Indian farmers as Sachin Karmakar and Narayan Deb.

Both of the individuals were reported to have been handed back to the BSF as of the time of filing this report on Tuesday evening.

The whole thing started when 70-year-old Abdul Mannan, resident of Ichakali village, was allegedly detained by BSF personnel on Tuesday morning while he was working near the Ichakhali border in Sadar upazila.

For context, the Ichakhali Border is a section of the India-Bangladesh international boundary in Bangladesh's western Meherpur Sadar Upazila, adjoining West Bengal's Nadia district.

Following the detention of Abdul Manna, the relatives of the Bangladeshi farmer crossed the international border and detained two Indian nationals near Border Pillar No 123/3-S before handing them over to a nearby Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) camp, reported Prothom Alo.

Ibrahim Khalilullah, Abdul Mannan's grandson, told Prothom Alo that they resorted to such an action after repeated requests to the BSF failed to secure Mannan's release.

The BGB and BSF held a flag meeting at the Ichakhali border on Tuesday afternoon, after which all three alleged detainees were handed over to the border forces of their respective countries.

On Saturday, a 35-year-old tea farmer from West Bengal's Jalpaiguri district, identified as Dipankar Gope, was abducted by around 20 Bangladeshi men from his tea garden near the India-Bangladesh border

A group allegedly crossed into India, surrounded him and dragged him into Bangladesh's northern Panchagarh district before handing him over to the BGB.

The abduction was reportedly linked to the detention of a Bangladeshi man on August 6, after villagers and BSF personnel allegedly caught him attempting to enter India by cutting through the border fence. The Daily Star reported on Sunday that Gope had since been handed over to Panchagarh Police in Bangladesh and had not been returned to India.

A purported video of Gope later surfaced on social media, allegedly showing him saying that he "would be released only if the Bangladeshi national detained by Indian authorities was freed".

I have some questions. I know there is no way we can patrol every corner of the border constantly. Shouldn't security forces coordinate with locals and come up with some solution, like both parties deciding the timing of farming, which areas are prone to these types of incidents or infiltration? Put drone surveillance. Give farmers an area identification system like so they do not cross into Bangladesh, similar to Indian fisherman are getting.

All four women competitors clinching gold medals in their respective categories.

The final medal tally stands at six gold and two silver.

The gold-winning women soldiers are :

##Naib Subedar Jaismine Lamboria (57kg),

##Naib Subedar Preeti Panwar (54kg),

##Havildar Arundhati Choudhary (70kg) and

##Havildar Sakshi Chaudhary (51kg).

All four are from the Corps of Military Police and joined the Indian Army as sportspersons after recruitment into the rank and file was opened for women under the Agnipath scheme.

A para-athlete, Soman Rana of the Gorkha Rifles, won India’s first gold medal in the para men’s shotput F57. A former national-level boxer now with the Army Paralympics Node, he had lost a leg in a 2006 landmine blast while on duty.

Havildar Harsh Singh from the Army Judo None, became the first Indian male judoka to clinch the gold in the Men’s 60 kg Judo with a commanding 10-0 victory over Australian Olympian Joshua Katz.

Naib Subedar Gulveer Singh of the Grenadiers Regiment, a national record holder, won silver in the men's 10,000m — India's first-ever medal in the event at the Commonwealth Games — and a bronze in the men's 5,000m.

Naib Subedar Sarvesh Anil Kushare of the Regiment of Artillery bagged India's first Commonwealth Games silver in the men's high jump,

while Havildar Valluri Ajaya Babu, a weightlifter from the Southern Command, set a new Games snatch record of 149kg.

The Army trains selected athletes at the Army Sports Institute (ASI) under its Mission Olympics programme in collaboration with the Sports Authority of India.

Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL) is gearing up to add another 12 aircraft to the Indian Air Force’s fleet from its Nashik production line.

The facility is expected to deliver the first aircraft from the new batch in 2027-28, with all 12 fighters scheduled to be delivered by 2029.

The additional aircraft are part of an approximately ₹11,000-crore contract signed in December 2024 to replace Su-30MKIs lost in accidents. The new fighters will be manufactured with more than 50 per cent indigenous content, giving the programme a greater domestic component than the earlier licence-production model.

First woman fighter pilot to complete the prestigious Fighter Combat Leader (FCL) course at the Tactics and Air Combat Development Establishment (TACDE) in Gwalior.

The 20-week programme is among the IAF’s most challenging advanced combat courses and is conducted for a select group of fighter pilots.

Hailing from Bihar’s Darbhanga district, Squadron Leader Bhawana Kanth is an engineering graduate and worked briefly at TCS, who joined the IAF in June 2016 as part of India’s first batch of women fighter pilots.

In 2019, she became the first Indian woman cleared to undertake daytime fighter combat missions.

She initially flew the MiG-21 Bison before transitioning to the Su-30 MKI.