INDIAN ARMY BOOSTS LADAKH CAPABILITY WITH NEW WEAPONS

NEW DELHI: The Indian Army is swiftly upgrading its capability in the Ladakh sector with a variety of weapons and systems including artillery guns, swarm drone systems that can carry out offensive missions, longer range rockets, remotely piloted aerial systems and high-mobility protected vehicles, while also pursuing the development of light tanks, futuristic infantry combat vehicles and buying new carbines, amid the standoff with the Chinese army along the LAC, officials said on Monday.

NEW DELHI: India and the European Union (EU) on Monday signed an agreement on cooperation in key tech areas such as climate modelling and quantum technologies, building on the Trade and Technology Council launched by the two sides earlier this year.

The “Intent of Cooperation on High Performance Computing (HPC), Weather Extremes and Climate Modelling and Quantum Technologies” was signed by India’s ministry of electronics and IT (Meity) and the European Commission’s Directorate-general for Communications Networks, Content and Technology (DG CONNECT) during a virtual ceremony.

“Moreover, the signing of the agreement assumes significance in the context of the decision to set up Eu-india Trade and Technology Council (TTC)” on April 25, an EU statement said.

The agreement signed on Monday is aimed at facilitating collaboration on high performance computing applications using Indian and European supercomputers in areas such as bio-molecular medicines, Covid-19 therapeutics, the statement said.