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The Vande Bharat can endure the harsh Himalayan winters and is built to resist the region's rugged terrain.

China dominates this sector because of having mastered the difficult process of extracting rare earth elements.

Explaining how the flow of Brahmaputra river increases dramatically in India while it is way lesser at the Indo-China border, the Assam Chief Minister said, “At the Indo-China border (Tuting): Flow is ~2,000–3,000 m³/s. In Assam plains (e.g., Guwahati): Flow swells to 15,000–20,000 m³/s during monsoon.”

DIGIPIN provides a digital representation for a physical location along with a stable location identification. It complements the existing location system by adding precision, stability and permanency.

Through an official order, the Indian government has mandated that on May 31, the Civil Defence Exercise Operation Shield be carried out in every district of the states and Union Territories that border the western region.

During a media interaction on 29th May, President Trump termed international students as “troublemakers” and proposed a 15 per cent cap on enrolling foreign students at the Harvard University and other higher education institutions in the United States.

The row erupted after several media reports claimed that the Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to relocate HAL from Karnataka to Andhra Pradesh, during a recent NITI Aayog meeting.

Under Erdogan, the education system of Turkey has been overhauled to emphasise Islamism. His government has been funding Islamic Imam Hatip schools, which used to train Islamic imams and preachers during Ottoman empire, at a large scale.

"Operation Safed Sagar" was the first large-scale use of air power in the Kashmir region since the 1971 Indo-Pak war.

The PAN PAN call, which stands for “Possible Assistance Needed”,  is a standard aviation protocol used to prioritise communication and request support, such as radar vectors.