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"Terrorists Using Dark Net To Spread Radical Material": Amit Shah At G20

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The minister also warned of cyber-attack threat which he said is hovering over all the major economies of the world and "many countries of the world have become victims of it"    Amit Shah also warned of the risk of cyber-attacks Gurugram:  At the two-day G-20 Conference in Gurugram on Thursday, Union Home Minister Amit Shah expressed concern about terrorists utilizing the dark web to conceal their identities and disseminate extremist information. He said that we may discover answers by figuring out the patterns of these actions. The minister also issued a warning about the threat of cyberattack, which he claimed was looming over all of the world's main economies and that "many countries of the world have become victims of it." Amit Shah stated that in order to build a "robust and efficient operational system," "we have to understand the pattern of these activities running on the dark net and find solutions for the same." Terrorists use the d...

Chandrayaan-3 launch: What are the different kinds of moon missions?

There has been a resurgence of interest in exploring the Moon over the past 15 years. Flybys, orbiters, impact missions, landers, rovers, and human missions are the six main categories of lunar missions. What you need to know about them is as follows.    The Chandrayaan-3 project is India's second attempt at a soft lunar landing and third lunar mission overall. It is one of many space missions planned to visit the planet, along with NASA's Artemis II and Russia's Luna 25 mission. There has been a resurgence of interest in exploring the Moon over the past 15 years. Since all that could be done on the Moon with the technology available at the time had been done, there was a full hiatus in sending spacecraft there after the final Apollo mission in the early 1970s. Although some modification was made in the 1990s, Chandrayaan-1's 2008 discovery of water on the lunar surface provided the major impetus. The various lunar missions that have been launched thus far are listed he...

France ready to offer naval SCALP missile with three Scorpene subs

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The naval cruise missile has a range of 1000 kms after being launched from a Scorpene class submarine.                 Prime Minister Narendra Modi on INS Vikrant aircraft carrier France has agreed to equip the Indian Navy's air independent propulsion (AIP) equipped submarine with a naval cruise missile that has a range that is twice that of the SCALP air to ground missile carried by Indian Air Force (IAF) Rafale fighters, in addition to offering to build three more Scorpene class submarines for the Indian Navy at Mazagon Dockyards in Mumbai. The naval variant of the SCALP missile, which has been improved, can travel up to 1400 kilometers when launched from a warship and over 1000 kilometers when launched from a submarine. The turbojet-powered cruise missile approaches the target at subsonic speed while still on the ground, eliminating any potential enemy danger there, before ascending to the skies. The French Navy has been using the missile on it...