16/10/2017

y For the first time in its over 50 years history the Indo-Tibetan Border Police is raising and deploying a mechanized column, to quickly mobilize troops along the India-China border.

y Young conservative star Sebastian Kurz is on track to become Austria’s next Chancellor and the world’s youngest leader Parliamentary election results show. But his party is far short of a majority and likely to seek a coalition with the resurgent far right.

17/10/2017

y Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman commissions the third of the indigenously built Kamorta class anti-submarine warfare stealth corvette INS kiltan at Vishakhapatnam. The ship was built by Garden Reach Ship Builders and Engineers, Kolkata.

y An Air Asia flight from Australia to Indonesia is forced to turn back to Perth after losing cabin pressure,with passengers recounting their terror as oxygen masks dropped from the ceiling. The aircraft had to quickly drop....