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Navy Chief Admiral R. Hari Kumar talked about proposing gender-neutral nomenclature and embracing inclusivity in the Indian Navy. Many Indian institutes like IIT Delhi and NALSAR are also adopting gender-neutral policies. 

Union home minister Amit Shah said that there had been "dilution" in the SPG Act and the Bill brought by the government to amend the Act was aimed at making the specialised force more efficient. Watch MyNation in 100 seconds for the top headlines from across the country.

Sushil Kumar served as Navy Chief between 1998 and 2001 and also oversaw Kargil conflict in 1999

Singh's appointment as the next navy chief was challenged by Commander-in-Chief of the Andaman and Nicobar Command Vice Admiral Bimal Verma who had approached the Armed Forces Tribunal (AFT)

The lawyers representing Indian Navy Vice Admiral Bimal Verma, Ankur Chhibber and Verma's daughter Rhea Verma said, "The court took the matter today and directed the government to submit its reply in three weeks’ time. The Government has told the court that it will reply in four weeks regarding the appeal filed on April 23, seeking to stay the government order of March 23 to appoint Karambir Singh as the next Navy Chief instead of him."

Admiral Sunil Lanba is also scheduled to visit the International Institute of Strategic Studies (IISS) in London, RN Submarine Rescue Facility at Glasgow and interact with the organisers of the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo at Edinburgh

Lanba said, “We also have reports of terrorists being trained to carry out attacks with varying modus operandi including through the medium of the sea. India has been facing the threat of terror through the seas.”

'The bank guarantees of Reliance Naval have been encashed and action has been taken (for not supplying five Offshore Patrol Vessels in time). There is no pressure from anywhere to not act against them,' Navy Chief Admiral Sunil Lanba said

New Delhi: Ahead of Navy Day, on December 4, Navy chief Admiral Sunil Lanba reminded the nation that after the first deterrence patrol of the indigenously-built nuclear-propelled submarine INS Arihant, India has activated the third and most reliable part of the nuclear triad — the ability to deliver a nuclear weapon by air, land and sea.

India became the sixth country to have a nuclear triad after the US, UK, France, Russia and China.

Before she realised her 'inadvertent mistake' and deleted her tweet, former officers and veterans had, however, taken screenshots of both the tweets and started to criticise the ministry over the 'strained civilian-military' relationship in the defence ministry