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The Indian Navy
has got its largest ever destroyer after the addition of the 163 metre-long
vessel Kolkata (D63) to
its arsenal. It is India’s first domestically built guided missile destroyer.
Kolkata (D63) is India’s first domestically built guided missile destroyer to
feature a Western-style air search radar and stealth technology.
Ø Despite a view that India is rapidly
urbanising, it will have just half of its population in cities even in 2050,
new UN projections show. In 2050,
India will be one of the least urbanised major countries, with Sri Lanka,
Uganda, Cambodia, Nepal, Kenya and Ethiopia for company, while China will be
76% urban. In 2050, the world will
have 9.55 billion people and India with 1.62 billion people will be the most
populous country in the world, the numbers show, its population still growing.
China, on the other hand, will have hit its peak of 1.45 billion in 2030 and
have declined to 1.38 billion people by 2050.
Ø INS Kamorta, the first in series of anti-submarine corvettes indigenously built by
Kolkata based Garden Reach Shipbuilders & Engineers Ltd. (GRSE), was handed
over to Indian Navy.
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President
Vladimir Putin made a surprise stop in Nicaragua after visiting Russia’s Cold
War ally Cuba, part of a tour to increase Moscow’s influence in Latin America
amid frayed ties with the West. Mr. Putin’s six-day trip will also take him to
Argentina and Brazil, where he will take part in a summit of the BRICS group of
emerging countries — an agenda that neatly aligns with his push for a
multipolar world at a time when the Ukraine crisis has brought
Moscow-Washington relations to a post-Cold War low.
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