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This article is a summary of important events that have taken place in last one week affecting, India's national security . The four new Heron Mark-2 drones, which can be equipped with long-range missiles and other weapons systems, have been deployed at a forward air base in the northern sector.
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An IAF helicopter is being deployed to airlift more than 50 people stuck in the waterlogged areas in Baran and Jhalawar districts while schools in all four districts of the Kota division - Kota, Baran, Jhalawar and Bundi - have been shut.
Keeping in view the prevailing condition in the state of Jammu and Kashmir, the state home department has requested the Indian Air Force to airlift the Amarnath Yatra pilgrims out of the Kashmir valley to places such as Jammu, Pathankot or Delhi from where they can go back home. The State Department on Friday issued an advisory telling the pilgrims to leave the area immediately on intelligence reports of terror groups backed by Pakistan plotting attack.
The Indian Air Force on Wednesday airlifted around 514 passengers in separate sorties in Jammu and Kashmir. Due to the closure of the Srinagar-Kargil-Leh road, the stranded passengers of Kargil at Jammu and Srinagar were provided the facility of AN-32 aircraft, which had not operated for the last few days due to bad weather.
The Indian Air Force acted as a rescuer as they airlifted almost 538 people, including 319 GATE aspirants, between the twin capital cities of Jammu and Srinagar. The IAF came to the rescue of the many people who were stuck in the twin capitals due to the closure if Jammu-Srinagar national highway.
The Indian Air Force (IAF) airlifted 488 stranded civilians from Udhampur to Leh in Ladakh region of Jammu and Kashmir. With this successful operation, a total of 955 stranded passengers have been airlifted by the IAF to Leh from Udhampur-based IAF station this year.
For the second consecutive in two weeks, the Indian Air Force on Tuesday airlifted 234 stranded civilians from Udhampur to Leh in Ladakh region of Jammu and Kashmir. Notably, Ladakh region remains cut-off for over five months due to heavy snowfall in Zojila pass area, along 434-km Srinagar-Leh National Highway, the only road linking the frontier region with rest of the state.
The Indian Air Force on Monday airlifted 233 stranded civilians from Udhampur to Leh in Jammu and Kashmir. Notably, snowfall in Jammu and Kashmir usually brings smile and joy for the tourists but often create problems too.
