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Army Safeguarding National Interests – Jammu Kashmir Latest News | Tourism

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The Indian Army is one of the best in the world without any doubt, a battle-tested unit with an unblemished track record of no comparison at all. While the world realised and faced the brunt of terrorism in the last two decades only, our army is battling it out for the last four decades now. Army’s unique methods employed are exemplary and unmatched. All leading world armies are always eager to have joint exercises with our soldiers to get an on-hand experience of our expertise. Factually it is not an easy task to have two hostile nuclear nations as your neighbour but our army with its valour has been able to match both of them. Our Government’s policy of ‘talks and terrorism cannot go together’ and the army’s consistent pressure have delivered the desired result of a peaceful border for quite some time now. India has a distinct record, despite being one of the largest and best armies, yet we have never been hostile to any nation in our history. But whenever provoked our army has always given a befitting reply. The Surgical Strikes and Balakot operation are recent examples and the result is for everyone to see, no major terrorist activity in the last few years, they very well know the consequences of provocation now, all credit to our armed forces. There has been changing of tactics by the enemy but Indian Army has also upgraded itself accordingly to thwart any challenge, be it the use of drones, tunnels, weapons using artificial intelligence or any other method, army response has been acerbic and unfettered. Our army is defending the highest battleground in the world, the Siachen for decades now. Even in 2020 Ladakh’sGalwan and other North Eastern skirmishes with China had been professionally tackled at their face value by the army, stood our ground forcing them to come to negotiating table, one-to-one talks on equal terms. The recent up gradation of infra all along the international border is for everyone to notice. Hundreds of kilometres of roads, bridges and tunnels to make borders all-weather accessible, all-weather bunkers, advance landing grounds, airports, helipads, and water augmentation have been done to secure our borders in a…

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Cyber Swachhta Kendra To maintain your cyber security – Jammu Kashmir Latest News | Tourism

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Niraj Dubey
The “Cyber Swachhta Kendra” is a part of the Government of India’s Digital India – Power to Empower – initiative under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) to create a secure cyber space by detecting botnet infections in India and to notify, enable cleaning and securing systems of end users so as to prevent further infections.
The “Cyber Swachhta Kendra” (Botnet Cleaning and Malware Analysis Centre) is set up in accordance with the objectives of the “National Cyber Security Policy”, which envisages creating a secure cyber eco system in the country. This centre operates in close coordination and collaboration with Internet Service Providers (ISP) and Product/Antivirus companies. This website provides information and tools to
(https://www.cyberswachhtakendra.gov.in) users to secure their systems/devices. This centre is being operated by the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) under provisions of Section 70B of the Information Technology Act, 2000 (IT Act 2000) been operational since January 2004, for analyzing BOTs/malware characteristics and providing information and enabling citizens for removal of BOTs/malware. The constituency of CERT-In is the Indian Cyber Community. CERT-In is the national nodal agency for responding to computer security incidents as and when they occur. In addition, “Cyber Swachhta Kendra” will strive to create awareness among citizens to secure their data, computers, mobile phones and devices such as home routers. Cyber Swachhta Kendra is real, trusted and safe, as it is being operated by the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In).
CERT-In has been designated to serve as the national agency to perform the following functions in the area of cyber security:
* Collection, analysis and dissemination of information on cyber incidents.
* Forecast and alerts of cyber security incidents
* Emergency measures for handling cyber security incidents
* Coordination of cyber incident response activities.
* Issue guidelines, advisories, vulnerability notes and whitepapers relating to information security practices, procedures, prevention, response and…

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Security further beefed up in Kashmir, Jammu

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Multiple checkpoints and roadblocks, the officer said, have been erected across Srinagar. “The number of bulletproof mobile bunker vehicles deployed at sensitive places has also been increased and the high-tech CCTV surveillance enhanced,” he said, adding that some additional companies of paramilitary forces have been deployed in Srinagar alone. “This came after a security review was undertaken post which the decision to deploy more security personnel in Srinagar was taken,” the officer said.

“The entire top brass of the security grid is currently in Kashmir,” the officer said, adding that the situation is being monitored closely.

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Jammu drone strike marks dangerous escalation by Pak

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It is vital that we do not let ourselves get trapped in a defensive and reactive stance, confined to consequence management. The emphasis must shift from mere protection to punishment.

 

On Sunday, 27 June, Pakistan crossed a significant escalation threshold in its asymmetric war in Jammu and Kashmir. Two drones struck the strategic air base of Jammu between 0127 and 0130 hours in the morning. They came at the height of 100m and dropped 2 kg charges of high-grade military explosives (probably RDX) with impact detonators. Their likely targets were the helicopters hanger and Air Control Tower (ACT), but they missed. One created a hole in the roof of a concrete building and the other exploded on the ground. Two Air Force boys were injured slightly. This was a significant qualitative escalation in the asymmetric war being waged in Kashmir. By using drones to target a strategic air base, Pakistan had ushered in the era of drone warfare in South Asia with a low cost- high impact strike using COTS (Commercial Off The Shelf Technology) of quad copter drones. The simple fact is that such plastic, battery operated drones have a zero radar cross-section and are very difficult to detect and even harder to stop. Thus, they are a very optimal and cost- effective solution for any attacker. The defender will always be at disadvantage in such a scenario.

Post the strike, there was the usual strident media outcry. How were we caught napping again, especially since intelligence agencies had warned us that drones may be employed? Such scapegoat seeking narratives betray a complete ignorance of the technological complexities involved in detecting and shooting down such small drones. The fact is, Indian Air Force (IAF) is well equipped to detect and deal with HALE (High Altitude Long Endurance) and MALE (Mid Altitude Long Endurance) class of larger drones, but such small and cheap drones present an entirely different set of problems.

 

ERA OF DRONE WARFARE

Drones have been extensively employed for decades now. Surprisingly, their use in fact dates back to the Vietnam War. Their employment in the Bosnia conflict indicated their vulnerability in a dense AD environment….

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