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Source:- Modi wants Andaman & Nicobar to become a major military base, appoints ex-Admiral as Lieutenant Governor Admiral D K Joshi (retired), who quit the Indian Navy in a huff in 2014, has been appointed the Lieutenant Governor of Andaman and Nicobar islands. The appointment of Admiral Joshi as the Lieutenant Governor of Andaman and Nicobar isn’t only about setting past mistakes right. It is also a clear signal that the Modi-led NDA government wants to make the archipelago – India’s easternmost military post – play a more decisive military role for its “Look East Policy”. In fact, the archipelago is designed to be the main staging post for warships, aircraft and submarines to counter the growing aggressiveness of China in the Indian Ocean. More number of Chinese warships and submarines prowled the Indian Ocean in 2017 than ever before. And, on the other hand, the Andaman Nicobar base will form an important logistic base for the Indian Navy’s reach out programme to countries li

Source:- The Many Lies of Fakistan a.k.a. Pakistan Among the many monikers that have been bestowed on Pakistan in recent years – Terroristan, Jihadistan, Osamastan, AlQaedastan, Proliferationstan, Denialistan, Blackmailistan, Pakjabistan etc – the one that is current this week is Bullshitistan. No country lies quite so openly or consistently or brazenly or frequently as this sad country of 200 plus million. Particularly when it comes to the so-called “Kashmir issue.” This should not be surprising considering the country itself was founded on a fundamental lie (that Hindus and Muslims, both same species of humans, cannot live together; a founder’s proposition almost immediately negated by Hindus and Muslims who continued to live together even after millions were violently torn asunder). But as it often happens with lies, one had to keep constructing more lies to protect the original one, so what we have now is a Republic of Lies that piled lies upon lies on a shaky foundation. One of

Source:- Attack on NSCN-K left 30 dead: Indian Army’s zero toleration policy towards infiltration The encounter carried out by the Indian Army against the NSCN-K shows that the forces have adopted a zero tolerance policy towards insurgency. The aggression with which the strike was carried out shows that the Army is not prepared to go easy on infiltrations. The NSCN-K has been on the downward swing since the Army hit its based two years back following the Manipur attack, the outfit carried out. Moreover the death of its chief S Khaplang has also demoralised the outfit a great deal. Attack on NSNK-K left 30 dead: Indian Army’s zero toleration policy towards infiltration The Army was informed by the Intelligence Bureau about the movement of the NSCN-K cadres. They were attempting a major infiltration bid and had even set up camps at the border. The Army waited for them to cross over before launching a major attack on them in which 30 cadres were killed. The Army made it clear that it

Tate Liverpool 22 September 2017 to 17 June 2018 This autumn Tate Liverpool will be showing works by the renowned American pop artist Roy Lichtenstein (1923–1997). The display includes major paintings such as In the Car 1963 and provides a rare opportunity to see a substantial group of Lichtenstein’s work in the North of England. It includes some 20 paintings, reliefs and works on paper by the artist known for his paintings based on comic strips, advertising imagery, and adaptations of works by other artists. Lichtenstein was a pioneer of the pop art movement that exploded in the early 1960s. In his often monumentally-sized paintings, he makes use of a printing technique that mimics the Ben-Day dots seen in comic books and commercial newsprint. This became synonymous with the influence of popular mass culture on the look and subject matter of avant-garde art at the time. Fascinated by the arresting and emotionally charged imagery found in romance and war comics, Lichtenstein

Source:- Indian Army wants more tests before ordering homemade anti-tank missile Nag Indian scientists claim they have completed development trials of the homemade anti-tank guided missile known as Nag, but the Army, which will use the munition, says more trials are needed before a formal limited production order is given. “The developmental trials of Nag ATGM carried out earlier this month have only proven partial success, and many more user trials will be needed,” an Indian Army official said. “The entire exercise of hot- and cold-region trials of the Nag missile will take more than one year to complete, after which the missile could be ready for production.” The Army also flagged the high cost of the Nag missile. The cost of the Nag ATGM is about half a million dollars, almost double the price of the Israeli Spike or American Javelin missile, according to a second Army official. The thermal sensors of the Nag missile are procured from Rafael of Israel and Thales of France, which

US Africa Command (AFRICOM) announced this week that “several” Islamic State fighters were killed during a pair of precision airstrikes about 100 miles southeast of the Libyan city of Sirte on Sept. 26. Separately, AFRICOM revealed to FDD’s Long War Journal that an estimated 800 to 900 Islamic State fighters were killed during Operation Odyssey Lightning’s air campaign in Sirte between Aug. and Dec. of 2016. While that operation did significant damage to the self-declared caliphate in Libya, the jihadists have maintained a foothold in the country. The US military has resumed targeting the Islamic State’s branch in Libya, though it remains to be seen if the bombings become more frequent. Over the past week, AFRICOM has launch eight airstrikes. Six of them took place on Sept. 22, when the US military reportedly killed 17 jihadists and destroyed three vehicles at a “desert camp” 150 miles southeast of Sirte. The recent airstrikes are the first by the US in Libya in eight months. T

The Morgan Library & Museum September 29 through January 7, 2018 Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890), Letter to Paul Gauguin, 17 October 1888, with a sketch of Bedroom at Arles, pen and brown ink on graph paper, Thaw Collection, The Morgan Library & Museum, MA 6447. Given in honor of Charles E. Pierce, Jr., 2007. Photography by Graham S. Haber, 2016. in Share The Thaw Collection is considered among the foremost private collections of drawings assembled over the last half century. It was first promised to the Morgan in 1975 by Eugene V. Thaw, now a Life Trustee, and the museum received the full collection of 424 works in early 2017. In honor of this extraordinary gift—one of the most important in the history of the museum—the Morgan presents Drawn to Greatness: Master Drawings from the Thaw Collection . On view from September 29 through January 7, 2018, the exhibition includes more than 150 masterworks from the Renaissance to the twentieth century. A partial

The Metropolitan Museum of Art October 4, 2017 ----- January 7, 2018 Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (French, 1780-1867).  Study for "Raphael and the Fornarina " (detail), ca. 1814. Graphite on white wove paper, 10 x 7 3/4 in. (25.4 x 19.7 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Robert Lehman Collection, 1975 (1975.1.646) Leonardo to Matisse: Master Drawings from the Robert Lehman Collection , on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art beginning October 4, presents 60 masterpieces of European drawing spanning the Renaissance to the Modern age. It is the first presentation to highlight the full range of Robert Lehman's vast and distinguished drawings collection ------ numbering over 700 sheets ------ and to explore his significant activity as a 20th-century collector. The exhibition will trace the development of European drawing across five centuries through works by such celebrated maste

Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge  3 October 2017 – 14 January 2018  Denver Art Museum  February 11, 2018 – May 20, 2018 In the centenary year of the artist’s death, the Fitzwilliam Museum will stage a major exhibit ion of its wide -ranging holdings of works by Edgar Degas (1834 -1917), the most extensive and representative in the UK. The Museum’s collections will be complemented by an outstanding group of over fifty loans from private and public collections throughout Europe and the United States, several of which will be on public display for the first time. These include a group of paintings and drawings once belonging to the economist John Maynard Keynes, bought directly in 1918 and 1919 from Degas's posthumous studio sales in Paris, against a backdrop of German bombardment during World War I.    Edgar Degas , Dancers in the wings , c .1900– 1905 © The Fitzwilliam Museum , Cambridge  Edgar Degas, Dance Examination , 1880, Denver Art Museum  The remarkable brea

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Source:- With Multi-Object Tracking Radar, India can track Pakistani Missile and Space Debris ISRO’s MOTR is a L-Band long range AESA Radar made indigenously. It was planned in 2012 as ISRO was dependent on NASA for Debris data and had problem in rocket locating. The radar, which is capable to track 10 different objects at a time, will help the research organisation in its future missions including the space capsule recovery, reusable launch vehicle and human space programmes along with space debris tracking to protect the space assets of the country. Isro has completed the project of the first indigenous multi-object tracking radar, a capability which is owned by a very few countries in the world at present. While the existing radars, which ISRO has six in its control, is capable of tracking tracking single objects and are used for tracking the launch vehicles, in order to meet the range safety requirements, it is essential to track all the targets of the launch vehicles simultane

Source:- Surgical strikes showed India had exhausted its strategic patience A year ago on the night of 28/29 September, India demonstrated an unprecedented politico-military will, executing surgical strikes across the line of control in Pakistan Occupied Kashmir. Nearly a 100 commandos of the elite Special Forces of the Parachute Regiment destroyed terrorists housed in launch pads waiting to infiltrate across the LoC, a punitive strike post the terrorist attack on Uri military camp. The strategic signalling was clear – India had exhausted its strategic patience and Pakistan can no longer perpetrate terrorist attacks with impunity, without the fear of retaliation. The surgical strikes triggered the imagination and interests of all Indians, instilling a sense of pride in the nation state as it displayed a strategic resolve to raise the costs for Pakistan’s ‘low cost high effect’ proxy war. The surgical strikes were also endorsed by most of the world community, in particular the neighbo

The Frick Collection October 24, 2017, through March 11, 2018  This fall, The Frick Collection will present a focused exhibition on two important Renaissance paintings by the celebrated artist Paolo Veronese (1528– 1588), St. Jerome in the Wilderness and St. Agatha Visited in Prison by St. Peter . While the paintings are known to scholars, their remote location in a church in Murano, an island in the lagoon of Venice known today for its glassmaking studios and shops, has made them difficult to study.  St. Jerome in the Wilderness has been exhibited outside the church only once—in 1939, in the Paolo Veronese exhibition at Ca’ Giustinian, in Venice— while St. Agatha Visited in Prison by St. Peter has not left the church since being installed in the early nineteenth century.  These two rarely seen canvases now leave Italy for the first time since their creation, over 450 years ago. And thanks to Venetian Heritage and the sponsorship of BVLGARI, they have been fully restored and