{"id":17396,"date":"2025-11-26T11:56:01","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T06:26:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=17396"},"modified":"2025-11-26T18:27:49","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T12:57:49","slug":"exercise-suryakiran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/exercise-suryakiran\/","title":{"rendered":"Exercise SURYAKIRAN"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Exercise SURYAKIRAN Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recently, the 19th edition of the \u201cExercise SURYAKIRAN XIX &#8211; 2025\u201d commenced at Pithoragarh, Uttarakhand.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Exercise SURYAKIRAN<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is the <\/span><b>joint military exercise<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> conducted between <\/span><b>India and Nepal.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Indian contingent is being represented mainly by troops from the <\/span><b>ASSAM Regiment.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The aim of the exercise is to jointly rehearse conduct of Sub <\/span><b>Conventional operations<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> under Chapter VII of the United<\/span><b> Nations Mandate.\u2019<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><b>Key Facts about Exercise SURYAKIRAN\u2013XIX<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Scope:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> To strengthen battalion-level synergy in Jungle Warfare, Counter-Terrorism Operations in Mountainous Terrain, <\/span><b>Humanitarian Assistance &amp; Disaster Relief<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (HADR), Environmental Conservation, and Integrated Ground\u2013Aviation Operations.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It will focus on incorporating niche and emerging technologies, including <\/span><b>Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS), drone-based ISR<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, \u00a0 AI-enabled decision support tools, <\/span><b>unmanned logistic vehicles and armoured protection platforms<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Significance:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It will further <\/span><b>enhance the level of defence cooperation<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> between Indian Army and Nepal Army.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pib.gov.in\/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=2194129\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">PIB<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exercise SURYAKIRAN is the joint military exercise conducted between India and Nepal. Read more about Exercise SURYAKIRAN, Aim, Key Facts, Latest News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":75159,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3897,21,22,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-17396","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-exercise-suryakiran","9":"tag-prelims-pointers","10":"tag-upsc-current-affairs","11":"tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","12":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}