North Korea‘ ready’ for intercontinental ballistic missile tests
Russia is preparing to supply cutting-edge S-400‘ Triumf’ longrange air defence missile systems to India.
Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said pre-contract preparations are underway on the supplies of S- 400 anti-aircraft missile complexes to India.
Russia last year signed bigticket defence deals worth nearly USD 10 bn( around Rs 60,000 crore), including an agreement for the game-changer S-400 Air Defence System, for replace its aging helicopter fleet with Kamov choppers and building new advanced frigates.
The S-400 is a new generation anti-aircraft system, which can be equipped with very longrange missiles( up to 400km),
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The S-400 Triumf is capable of countering all air attack
Indian national Uzma Ahmad, who was forced to marry a Pakistani national returned to India following an Islamabad High Court order via the Attari- Wagah border on Thursday.
" You can go to Pakistan easily, but you can ' t come out of it. Pakistan is like death well. Once you are stuck, you are stuck," Uzma said while sharing her harrowing experience in a press conference on Thursday.
A resident of Delhi, Uzma is in her early 20s and was forced to marry Tahir Ali on gunpoint on 3 May. Uzma had met Ali in Malaysia. On Thursday, she gave a detailed account of her experience in Pakistan and how she went to Islamabad and took refuge in the Indian High Commission for 20 days before she could return home.
" I had gone to Pakistan for sightseeing. But none of that happened. I had gone there on 1 May and had plans to return on 10 or 12 May. The situation changed all of a sudden. When I reached there I realised it was a very strange village. The people were strange and spoke a strange language. Nothing was right there. I don ' t have words to explain it. If you search Guner, you will find out that it was under Taliban control from 2008 to 2010 and military exercises are conducted there.
" Tahir tortured me emotionally as well as physically. He even threatened to harm my child through his relatives in Delhi. He weapons, including tactical and strategic aircraft, ballistic missiles and hypersonic targets such as the US F-35 fighter jet.
India is interested in getting five systems of the most modern air defence system, capable of firing three types of missiles, creating a layered defence.
S-400 can engage up to 36 targets simultaneously with as many as 72 missiles at altitudes of five meters to 30 km.
India is expected to get five such systems to deploy along its borders with Pakistan and China.
The system is currently deployed in Syria, where Russia is targeting the Islamic State.
China inked a deal with Russia in November 2014 for the supply of six S-400 systems.
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threatened to kidnap my child and kill her if I didn ' t do as they said. They beat me. It was because of my daughter that I signed( the marriage contract). It was because of fear that I signed. But I managed to escape the place," she said.
" If I was there for three-four more days I would not have survived. They would have either sold me or used me in some risky operation. Most people from Guner work in Malaysia. They bring girls from there. Every house has two-three wives. I don ' t want whatever that happened to me to happen to anyone else. There are many girls who are not able to escape the place," she added.
According to JP Singh, an Indian High Commission official, who managed her case, she reached the Indian High Commission on 5 May and told them that she was an Indian national. " I remember her scared face when she came to the window. It was a troubling time to make a decision and it was a difficult decision too. It was difficult because it was not easy to keep someone inside the
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North Korea‘ ready’ for intercontinental ballistic missile tests
Seoul: North Korea on Wednesday said it is ready to test launch intercontinental ballistic missiles( ICBM), one day after the US successfully tested a defence system to intercept such projectiles. The North Korean army is ready to conduct a real ICBM test at any time and place, if ordered by its leader Kim Jong-un, according to an article in the Rodong Sinmun, the official daily of the country’ s ruling Workers’ Party. In his New Year address to the nation, Kim said the country was in the final phase of developing an ICBM that would allow it to target the US with a nuclear weapon in the future, with the aim of aiding the survival of the communist regime. In the editorial cited by state news agency KCNA, which also included Pyongyang’ s analysis of the US test, the North said no foreign forces could stop its progress in becoming a nuclear and missile power in the East. Pyongyang said it will continue to strengthen its self-defence capacities in view of the hostile policy of the US, and warned the Donald Trump administration to choose the“ correct” option between life and death, Efe news reported.
Washington said on Tuesday it successfully intercepted a dummy ICBM on the country’ s west coast, amid escalating tensions with North Korea. Repeated weapons tests by the North— the last of which took place on Monday— have led to increased tensions on the peninsula, and a heated exchange of rhetoric with the Trump administration, which has also hinted at possible preemptive strikes. On Tuesday, Pyongyang said Washington was seeking to unleash a nuclear war, and accused it of sending atomic bombers close to its territory following the latest missile test.
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Ka-226T helicopters— Kamov 226T choppers will replace India’ s aging Cheetah and Chetak choppers. Kamov is a light multipurpose helicopter designed for work in difficult conditions like high mountains, hot climate and marine areas. It allows for reconnaissance, targeting and monitoring of transportation.
Frigates— An intergovernmental agreement for four frigates through partnership between Russian and Indian shipyards were also signed last year, when President Vladimir Outin visited India.
While two frigates will come from Russia, two others will be constructed at an Indian shipyard with Russian cooperation.
Pakistan is death well, no one ' s safe there,
says Indian national Uzma after return
commission. But once I saw her face, it became easy to keep her inside. It was a learning experience for all of us," he said.
" The High Commission trusted me instantly. When I told them that I am Indian and have come from India, he( Singh) immediately took me inside. I was safe inside," said Uzma who spend 20 days inside the Indian embassy before she was cleared to leave Pakistan.
According to reports, soon after she was taken inside the embassy, Ali filed a petition in Islamabad. Uzma petitioned the Islamabad High Court on May 12 that she was forced to marry. She filed another petition soon, asking " she be allowed to return home urgently as her daughter from her first marriage in India suffered from Thalassemia— a blood disorder ". Ali petitioned the court requesting that he be allowed to Uzma. The court allowed the meeting but Uzma refused, the Times of India had said.
" Lots of girls think that it ' s Muslim culture and you will be safe. I will tell them not to go to Pakistan. Even men are not safe there. I am happy that I am here. All girls who have gone there even via arranged marriage are in a very bad condition. My experience has told me that there ' s no place like India. Women have a lot of power here," Uzma said on Thursday.
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