India has started building a strategic road along the line of actual control in Eastern Ladakh that will, in the most part, trace the Indus and mirror a blacktop surface link on the Chinese side.
The road will plug a vital gap in connectivity between the strategically important Chushul South of Pangong Tso and Demchok in Eastern Ladakh, a distance of about 135 KM along the LAC.
Border roads organization kicked off the groundwork on Republic day and expects to complete the project in two years.
# Amrit udyan
The iconic mughal gardens in Rashtrapati bhawan will henceforth be called ‘Amrit udyan’ and would be open for the public from January 31.
On the occasion of the celebrations of 75 years of independence as ‘Azadi ka amrit mahotsav’, the president has given a common name to the Rashtrapati bhawan gardens as amrit udyan.
The garden was set up in 1928 by the British.
# Aviation gasoline
Amid an impending Western ban on fuel from Russia, India on Saturday turned from a net importer to an exporter of aviation gasoline which is also called AV gas.
AV gas powers unmanned aerial vehicles and piston engine aircraft used by flying schools.
State run Indian oil exported the first consignment of 80 barrels of AV gas to papua new Guinea from Mumbai’s Jawahar lal Nehru port.
AV gas has an estimated market of $2.7 billion.
# United States
The US plans to ban Chinese short video making app tik tok nation wide.
The House foreign affairs Committee will hold a vote next on a bill to completely block the platform.