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INDIA  + ARMY NAVY AIR FORCE Coast Guard USA Yudh Abhyas  VAJRA PRAHAR (Special Forces) Red Flag Japan Dharma Guardian Sahyog-Kaijin JIMEX USA, Japan Malabar Russia Indra INDRA NAVY AVIA INDRA China Hand in Hand France Shakti Varuna Garuda UK Ajeya Warrior Konkan Indradhanush or Rainbow Nepal Surya Kiran Bangladesh Sampriti CORPAT Singapore, Thailand SITMEX Sri Lanka Mitra Shakti SLINEX Thailand Maitree CORPAT SIAM BHARAT ...
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List of Joint Exercises between India and other Countries

INDIA + ARMY NAVY AIR FORCE USA Yudh Abhyas  VAJRA PRAHAR (Special Forces)  Red Flag Japan Sahyog-Kaijin USA, Japan Malabar Russia Indra INDRA NAVY AVIA INDRA China Hand in Hand France Shakti Varuna Garuda UK Ajeya Warrior Konkan Indradhanush or Rainbow Nepal Surya Kiran Bangladesh Sampriti Sri Lanka Mitra Shakti SLINEX Thailand Maitree  SIAM BHARAT Indonesia Garuda Shakti CORPAT UAE Desert Eagle Australia  Ausindex Singapore AGNI WARRIOR Bold Kurukshetra SIMBEX Seychelles LAMITYE Mongolia Nomadic Elephant Kazakhstan Prabal Dostyk ...

[11/11] Left Wing Extremism: The CPI (Maoist), bereft of ideology

Half a century after the Naxalbari movement arrived like a Spring Thunder over India , questions are beginning to arise as to whether the spark that gave rise to it is in danger of being extinguished. Independent India had previously experienced armed peasant movements, including the Telangana armed struggle and the Tebhaga movement (in Bengal) , but the Naxalbari movement seemed to follow a different trajectory. It was ignited by a small group of Bengal revolutionaries (all members of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) formed in 1964) who felt disillusioned with the so-called embourgeoisement of the party which had only recently split from the CPI on the ground it had turned revisionist. Breaking away from the CPI(M), this faction received almost instant endorsement from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) under Mao. This was followed by a few cadres visiting China to receive the benediction of the CCP. In course of time some of the cadres went to China for training. ...

[10/11] Left Wing Extremism

Current Situation As of February 2016, 106 districts in 10 States have been identified by the Government of India as Left Wing Extremism (LWE) affected districts in the country and 35 Most affected LWE districts. With established base areas in Dantewada and Bastar districts of Chhattisgarh, the movement has shown no signs of abating there. 12,000 firearms, and an unarmed cadre strength of nearly 200,000. Govt. estimates of Maoist forces : 15000-20000 army, atleast  40% of them are women ; avg. age in high teens and low twenties. Various estimates suggest Maoist rebels could number up to 40,000. Of these, thousands may be armed with weapons ranging from AK-47s to light machine-guns raided from police stations or bought from dealers in Nepal. The cadre mostly comprises farmers, landless labourers, tribals and the extremely poor, including women and children. Naxalites have been a strain on the country’s security forces and a barrier to deve...