At a demonstration of the Drone presentation on Friday, Union Minister of State Science and Technology Jitendra Singh, interacted with the Botlab StartUp team members at his residence including Tanmay Bunkar, Sarita Ahlawat, Sujit Rana, Mohit Sharma, Harshit Batra, Kunal Meena and others.
About 1,000 drones will light up the sky for 10 minutes at the 'Beating the Retreat Ceremony' next week, Union Minister Jitendra Singh said on Friday, underlining that India will be the fourth country to carry out such a show.
The armed forces have a few more projects in the final stages and if they get an extension, they may go ahead for purchase that equipment too for improving their combat capabilities.
All drones (except Nano drones operating in the green zone) shall be required to mandatorily share their real-time location through the network to the Centre either directly or through third-party service providers, it mentioned.
The ‘Medicine from the Sky’ is an initiative of Telangana in partnership with World Economic Forum, NITI Aayog, and HealthNet Global (Apollo Hospitals).
"An area of 3 km from perimeter of naval installations in Goa is designated as 'No Fly Zone'. All individuals, civil agencies are prohibited from flying any aerial drones within these zones for any reason," Indian Navy said on Monday.
According to a circular issued by the Delhi Police Commissioner Balaji Srivastava, the order shall come into force with effect from July 16, 2021, and shall remain in force for a period of 32 days up to August 16, 2021.
The last date for public to submit their comments on the draft rules is August 5.
Authorities in Srinagar and border districts of Rajouri and Kathua have already imposed such a ban after the recent terror attack at an IAF station in Jammu with armed drones.
On June 27, a drone attack was carried on the Jammu Air Force Station where two unmanned aerial vehicles were used to drop bombs. The National Investigation Agency has taken up the probe into the matter.
An order issued by Mohammad Aijaz, district magistrate Srinagar, said, "To secure aerial space near vital installations and highly populated areas it is imperative to discontinue the use of drones in all social and cultural gatherings to eliminate any risk of injury to life and damage to property".
The company said "undisclosed quantities of a high-altitude variant of ideaForge's SWITCH UAV" will be delivered to the Indian Army over a period of one year.
The farmers at various places in Kottayam are using drones for spraying fertilisers due to shortage of labourers in the wake of COVID-19.
The drones were spotted at nearly 6 pm, following which the BSF troops fired upon them, while the jawans kept a strict vigil.
While talking on security threat posed by drones on India's western border, Director General of National Security Guard, SS Deswal said that they have the system to identify and neutralize them.
Asserting that the terror infrastructure in Pakistan is intact, a top Border Security Force (BSF) officer on Sunday said airdropping of weapons by drones in Jammu and Kashmir is a new challenge along with various anti-India elements coming together.
Amazon will soon deliver your orders through drones. On Monday, the Federal Aviation Administration granted Amazon the approval to deliver customers' order through drones.
Amid COVID-19 increasing cases in the country, police is taking different steps to aware people.
Major states in the country have been hit by locust attacks. The attacks said to be the worst in nearly 26 years, are likely to turn severe by next month. Rajasthan has been the most-affected region. However, due to favorable weather conditions this year, these insects have also turned towards other states.
Advanced drones are being used in Jammu and Kashmir to monitor lockdown situating.
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