{"id":5442,"date":"2019-08-27T07:33:04","date_gmt":"2019-08-27T07:33:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=5442"},"modified":"2019-08-27T07:33:05","modified_gmt":"2019-08-27T07:33:05","slug":"indian-navy-prepared-to-thwart-jems-underwater-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/indian-navy-prepared-to-thwart-jems-underwater-plans\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian Navy prepared to thwart JeM\u2019s underwater plans"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Chief of Naval Staff Admiral Karambir Singh said that Indian Navy is fully prepared to thwart any \u201cunderwater wing\u201d attacks of Pakistan-based terror group Jaish-e-Mohammed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/current-affairs-quiz-2019-daily-gk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2019<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;\u201cWe have received an\nintelligence that an underwater wing of Jaish-e-Mohammed is training people to\ncarry out attacks from water, but we are fully prepared and are keeping close\nvigil. We would like to assure people that we will thwart any such attempt, \u201dhe\nsaid while answering a question on the changing tactics of terrorist outfits\nand the India Navy\u2019s response to it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All stakeholders in coastal security are ensuring that there\nis no intrusion from the sea, he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Admiral Singh said after the 26\/11 terror attack on Mumbai\nin 2008, coastal security construct was put in place and the Navy is overall\nin-charge of maritime security. \u201cIndian Navy along with the Coast Guard,\nMaritime police, the state government and other stakeholders are making sure\nthat there will not be any intrusion from the sea,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Referring to intelligence inputs on six Lashkar-e-Taiba\nterrorists who reportedly infiltrated into India via Sri Lanka, Admiral Singh\nsaid, \u201cWe have got input that they had entered and that some of them have been\narrested. They are being interrogated.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Asked how India was countering the increased presence of\nChina in the Indian Ocean Region, he said, \u201cI will not use the word counter. We\nare watching the progress. The Chinese want to become a global power, so they\nwill come into Indian Ocean Region. But we are watching them. There should be\nnothing against our national interest, otherwise we will have to act.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Navy chief was in Pune to deliver a lecture on \u2018Indian\nOcean \u2013 Changing Dynamic \u2013 Maritime Security Imperatives for India\u2019 as part of\nthe series held in the memory of former Army General BC Joshi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The lecture was organised at Dhanwantari Hall of the Armed\nForces Medical College and was attended by Southern Army Commander Lt Gen SK\nSaini and a large number of serving officers of the Armed Forces and veterans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 1995, Headquarters Southern Command and the University of\nPune jointly instituted an annual lecture series to honour the memory of former\nArmy General BC Joshi in recognition of his contribution to higher education\nand furthering University-Armed Forces interaction programme. The lecture is\norganised by the Department of Defence and Strategic Studies, Savitribai Phule\nPune University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chief of Naval Staff Admiral Karambir Singh said that Indian Navy is fully prepared to thwart any \u201cunderwater wing\u201d attacks of Pakistan-based terror group Jaish-e-Mohammed. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2019 &nbsp;\u201cWe have received an intelligence that an underwater wing of Jaish-e-Mohammed is training people to carry out attacks from water, but we are fully prepared [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":5443,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[257],"class_list":["post-5442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-articles","tag-indian-navy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5442"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5444,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5442\/revisions\/5444"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}