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Please read this as it is Very Important !!

“In Medical college, Professor was teaching clinical medicine to students in the fourth year of medicine, he asked the following question:

“What are the causes of mental confusion in the elderly?”
Some answer:- “Tumors in the head”.

He answered:- No

Others suggest:- “Early symptoms of Alzheimer’s”.

He answered again: No

With each rejection of their answers, their responses dry up.

And they were even more open-mouthed, when he listed the most common cause:–

–Dehydration..

It may sound like a joke; but it isn’t.

People over 60 generally stop feeling thirsty and consequently, stop drinking fluids.
When no one is around to remind them to drink fluids, they quickly dehydrate.

Dehydration is severe and affects the entire body. It may cause abrupt mental confusion, a drop in blood pressure, increased heart palpitations, angina (chest pain), coma and even death.

This habit of forgetting to drink fluids, begins at age 60, when we have just over 50% of the water we should have in our bodies.
People over 60 have a lower water reserve. This is part of the natural aging process.

But there are more complications. Although they are dehydrated, they don’t feel like drinking water, because their internal balance mechanisms don’t work very well.

Conclusion:–

People over 60 years old dehydrate easily, not only because they have a smaller water supply; but also because they do not feel the lack of water in the body.

Although people over 60 may look healthy, the performance of reactions and chemical functions can damage their entire body.

So here are two alerts:

1) Get into the habit of drinking liquids. Liquids include water, juices, teas, coconut water, soups, and water-rich fruits, such as watermelon, melon, peaches and pineapple; Orange and tangerine also work.

The important thing is that, every two hours, you must drink some liquid.

Remember this!

2) Alert for family members: constantly offer fluids to people over 60. At the same time, observe them.

If you realize that they are rejecting liquids and, from one day to the next, they are irritable, breathless or display a lack of attention, these are almost certainly recurrent symptoms of dehydration.

Inspired to drink more water now.

👉Send this information out to others. Your friends and family members need to know for themselves and help you/ senior citizens to be healthier and happier.

It’s good to share with people over 60 years👌😊

New Delhi, August 31

Unmanned robots looking like steel-made ‘dogs’ have been inducted into the Army. They can carry high-resolution surveillance equipment, transport light loads, small arms, sensors and even have thermal imaging camera that provide images in the dark.

Ideally, the robots, which can even climb stairs, will be sent in ahead of troops if a terrorist hideout has to be raided. The robots are connected to the nearest base unit to provide real-time imagery. The Army has named these robots as MULES — Multi-Utility Legged Equipment.

The first lot of 25 arrived in June, following which the Army laid down the standard operating procedures for using these robots. These has been sent to front line units and are functional, sources said. The Army had placed an order for 100 such robots in September last year under an emergency procurement scheme. They can be equipped with small arms, allowing for actual encounter to be done while the troops could be at a safe distance. The robots can even carry small supplies to soldiers stationed in frontline positions.

China already has integrated similar robots into its military operations, unveiling gun-toting robots earlier this year. During an exercise with Cambodia, China demonstrated two versions of these robots: one weighing 50 kg and equipped with an assault rifle, and a lighter 15 kg model for reconnaissance missions.

The Indian Army is making a shift to include more and more technology in its operations. The year 2024 has been declared “year of technology absorption” to focus on adopting new technologies to stay ahead of adversaries.

We Still Remember and Cherish Our Good Old Happy Days of 1970’s with
STRIKING SIX and FAMILIES.

We are LUCKY and Great HONOUR to be Part of STRIKING SIX Family.

God Bless All Our Officers,JCO’s, THAMBIES, Families and Colleagues of Our Good Old Happy Days GOOD HEALTH and All The HAPPINESS.

We Wish Our STRIKING SIX All The GLORY and FAME Both During PEACE and WAR.

Our Warm Regards and Best Wishes.
JAI GARUD

Col Vijay Dutt.
GUARDSMAN Veteran. from canada
LUCKY and PROUD Member of STRIKING SIX FAMILY.
Sat ,August ,31,2024.

Jammu, August 31

A top Army officer on Saturday reviewed the security situation in the Doda and Kishtwar districts of Chenab valley, which is going to polls along with south Kashmir districts in the first phase on September 18, officials said.

General Officer Commanding (GOC) of Jammu-based White Knight Corps Lt General Navin Sachdeva also assessed the annual three-day Kailash Kund Yatra, which commenced from Dudu-Basantgarh in the Udhampur district on Friday amid heightened vigil and aerial surveillance, the officials said.

In a post on X, the White Knight Corps said Lt General Sachdeva along with GOC, counter-insurgency force Delta, conducted a security review of the operational preparedness in the Suigarh and Patnazi sectors of Doda-Kishtwar.

Eight Assembly segments spread across Doda, Kishtwar and Ramban districts in the Chenab valley region along with 16 seats in the south Kashmir districts of Anantnag, Pulwama, Shopian and Kulgam are going to polls in the first phase on September 18.

The three-day Kailash Kund Yatra commenced from Dudu-Basantgarh in the Udhampur district on Friday and after a night halt at Seoj Dhar, the pilgrims proceeded towards Kailash Kund in the Doda district on Saturday morning.

Security forces have been deployed all along the high-altitude route to ensure the safety of the pilgrims in view of the recent terror attacks in the area that left a village defence guard and a CRPF inspector dead.

By : WING COMDR VENKI IYER

The helicopter appeared over the late morning horizon. We were to receive Mr Lachhman Singh Rathore who was visiting our Flight Unit to perform the last rites of his son, Flying Officer Vikram Singh.

Only the day before, I had sent the telegram, “Deeply regret to inform that your son Flying Officer Vikram Singh lost his life in a flying accident early this morning. Death was instantaneous.” It was the first time for me- to meet and manage the bereaved next of kin, in this case the Father of the brave officer.

While most of the desolate family members insist on seeing the body, many a time there isn’t a body to show !! Flying Officer Vikram Singh’s remains were only a few kilos –scrapped from what was left in the cockpit. We had to weigh the wooden coffin with wood and earth.

The pilot brought the helicopter to a perfect touchdown. Soon Mr Lachhman Singh Rathor was helped down the ladder.A small and frail man he was, maybe of 80 years, clad in an immaculate dhoti.

As I approached him, he asked in a quiet and dignified whisper, Are you Venki, the Flight Commander?”
“Yes Sir.”
“Vikram had spoken to me about you. I’d like to speak to you alone for a minute.”

We walked to the edge of the concrete apron. ‘I have lost a son, and you have lost a friend. I’m sure that you have taken great care in arranging the funeral. Please tell me when and where you want my presence and what you want me to do. I’ll be there for everything. Later, I would like to meet Vikram’s friends, see his room and, if it is permitted, visit his work place. I then would like to return home tomorrow morning.”

A commander couldn’t have given me clearer instructions.

The funeral, with full military honours, was concluded by late afternoon. After the final echoes of the ‘Last Post’ faded away, Lachhman Singh spent the evening talking to the Squadron Pilots. Vikram’s roommate took him to see Vikram’s room. Lachhman Singh desired to spend the night in his son’s room instead of the guest house we had reserved for him. Early next morning after a tour of the squadron area, my boss took him to his office.

A while later, the staff car took Lachhman Singh to the civil airfield two hours away.

As the car disappeared round the corner, I remarked to my Boss, “A brave man he is. Spoke to me like a General when he told me exactly what he expected from us during his stay here. I have never seen a more composed man on such an occasion. I admire him.”

Yes, Mr Lachhman Singh Rathore is a warrior in his own way. He sired three sons and has laid to rest all three of them

-His 1st son Captain Ghanshyam Singh of the Gurkha Rifles was killed in Ladakh in 1962 War.

His 2nd son, Major Bir Singh, died along the Ichogil Canal in 1965 in an ambush.

His youngest, the 3rd, Vikram Singh, who had the courage to join the Air Force, is also gone now, more to our country’s defence than All of us combined.”

Yes, he is indeed a brave Indian ; in fact HE is MORE INDIAN than anyone else – His sacrifice can never ever be repaid by the Country !! He is almost a Martyr himself !!

But our Great Nation does Not know this simple Giant — India only knows that Super Rich Cricketers need to be conferred BHARAT RATNA while a bunch of media personal or actors & actresses need to be conferred PADMA VIBHUSHANs and PADMASHREEs !

But what about the ‘ Losers ‘ ? Those who have SIMPLY LOST their EVERYTHING to the Nation & to its Citizens? Like this Father of Three Brave Soldiers!

( PLEASE DO PASS THIS ON TO EVERY SINGLE POLITICIAN, BUREAUCRAT AND EVERY SINGLE INDIAN CITIZEN WHO DOES NOT HAVE A FAMILY MEMBER IN THE ARMED FORCES — THAT’s THE LEAST WE CAN DO AS OUR ONLY TRIBUTE TO THIS FATHER)

A story to be included in the school syllabus. A brave father of brave sons. How the country could repay its debt to him. We do not know.but We only pray. Those who support stone pelters should read this.

Jai Hind 🇮🇳

The BJP IT cell has crafted the above hindi narrative and circulated an letter of AHQrs, on all national whatsapp groups through their forwarding agents/moles post, of a letter, allegedly issued by Army Hqrs, dated 08.08.2024.
This post on 15 lakh, is the worst fraud that this govt can play on the Soldier. Virtually making him look like beggars.
It is no different from the 15 lakh jumbla that Modi gave before the 2014 elections. No one has seen this 15 lakh yet. It was most shamelessly admitted by Shah after the elections that the 15 lakh was a election jumbla.
This is another IT cell fraud, which we Soldiers mustn’t fall for.
It’s no better than the lie told by Modi from the Red Fort on 15 Aug 2014, Hamne fauji bhaion ko OROP de diya hai.
What he gave was a tight kick in the bottoms of the 82 year old war veterans and their widows and dragged them all the way to the police station, because they were sitting in peaceful protest at Jantar Mantar.
And, what was the justification these old soldiers are a security risk.
What hurts, is that the Generals in the ARMY Hqrs have become a party to this fraud.
They know its all pretty election propaganda, but have chosen to remain silent.
Before any damage us done by giving the nation a false impression by this narrative, we must forward this message to all our readers so that the nation doesn’t get swayed by this post.
That this is a hoax, will be seen from the fact that there is no time line to pay this amount.
The track record of this Govt will bear witness to the deceit and lies that they are capable of through their IT cell.
Please reach out to all to call out this bluff.
What’s worse, is, they want the details of all your bank accounts, your land holdings, your house/ flats, your jewelry etc. One may ask, what has war service got to do with their property?
Did those who died in 1965/1971 ever imagine that one day they have to face such humiliation?

Please accord it the widest CIRCULATION!

1. All Defence Offrs, please be informed that Offrs of other services with whom you interact on functional basis, like MES Civ Offrs, GREF Civ Offrs, Offrs of BSF, CRPF ,ITBP, Def Accts(IDAS), Test Audit(IA&AS), Ord Factory Bd etc, are getting the salary and grade pay of Joint Secretary/ Maj Gen (GP Rs 10000/-) in 19 yrs of
   service, and are drawing the pay of Addl Secretary to Govt of India which is equal to a Lt Gen(GP Rs 12000/-) in 32 yrs of service by virtue of their service being Organised Gp A Service.
2. The above condition has been brought about consequent to acceptance of 6 CPC recom on NFU by GoI , wherein it recommended that whenever any IAS officer of the state or joint cadre is posted at the Centre to
   a particular grade carrying a specific grade pay in Pay Bands PB-3 or PB-4,the officers belonging to batches of Organised Group A services that are senior by two years or more and have not been promoted so far to that particular grade would be granted the same grade on a non functional basis from the date of posting of the IAS
   officers in that grade at the centre. Hence if an IAS officer becomes Joint Secretary in 17 years of service the offrs of Org Gp A Service(like the ones mentioned in Para 1) will start drawing the salary of Joint Secretary
   in maximum of 19 years of service and similarly that of Addl Secretary / Lt Gen in 30 and 32 yrs resp.
3. Why is it not applicable to Def Offrs : Because as per Govt of India Def Offrs are NOT part of Org Gp A Service, but are Commissioned Officers, and the above recom is applicable to only to the Gp A Services.
4. If Def Offrs are not part of Org Gp A service then what are they :They are just ‘Commissioned Officers ( Class One Gazetted Officers)’?
5. If all the above is correct then who all form part of Org Gp A Service and how Def Offrs call themselves Class 1 offrs ; Central Civil Services mainly include AIS (All India Services, namely, IAS, IPS and Indian Forest Service) and Org Gp A service .There are a total of 58 services forming part of Org Gp A service. Def Offrs are not part of Civil Services but have been broadly kept at par with Gp A Offrs of Civil Services( erstwhile known as Class 1 offrs) by various Pay Commissions. The reference to same since independence is attached.
6. Background to recom of NFU for Org Gp A Service as per 6 CPC:
   (a) The Sixth CPC observed that there is a conventional edge of two years between IAS and other AIS/ Central Group A services and stated that though the Fifth CPC had taken the view that the edge need not be disturbed, in practice, however, the gap of two years (for posting to various grades in the Centre in form of empanelment of IAS officers and promotion for other Group A officers), has increased in respect of many organised Group A services. (b) The sixth CPC felt that this is not justified as Organised Group A services have to be given their due which justifiably should mean that the disparity, as far as appointment to various grades in Centre are concerned, should not exceed two years between IAS and organised Central Group A services. It recommended that the Government should, accordingly, consider batch-wise parity while empanelling and/or posting at Centre between respective batches of IAS and other organised Group A services with the gap being restricted to two years. (c) Therefore whenever any IAS officer of the state or joint cadre is posted at the Centre to a particular grade carrying a specific grade pay in Pay Bands PB-3 or PB-4,the officers belonging to batches of Organised Group A services that are senior by two years or more and have not been promoted so far to that particular grade would be granted the same grade on a non functional basis from the date of posting of the IAS officers in that grade at the centre. (d) The higher non-functional grade so given to the officers of organised Group A services will be personal to them and will not depend on the number of vacancies in that grade. (e) These officers will continue in their existing posts and will get substantial posting in the higher grade that they are holding on non functional basis only after vacancies arise in that grade. This will not only ensure some
   sort of modified parity between IAS and other Central Group A services but will also alleviate the present grade of disparity existing between promotional avenues available to different organised Group A services. (f) The Government accepted the recommendations of Sixth CPC and granted the NFU to Organized GP A Services .
7. Why should the def offrs get NFU :Because of the following reasons : None of the Org Gp A service faces as much stagnation as the Armed Forces offrs because of its pyramidal structure. In fact, on the contrary, most of the Gp A service offrs, as it is, reach the level equal to Addl Secretary due to cylindrical structure of promotion of their service. Only issue for them is,’ in how many years’. In comparison, 97% def offrs retire at the levels below Joint Secretary / Maj Gen. Hence, if the logic of giving NFU to Org Gp A offrs is stagnation, then, no one deserves it more than the Armed Forces Offrs. b) Traditionally, since independence, there has been a broad parity between the Class 1 / Gp A offrs of Civil Services and the Defence Services Offrs which has been acknowledged by different Pay Commissions in their reports. In such a case ,the differential behaviour of 6 CPC not only disturbs the financial parity, it pushes down the def services in status as even direct recruit offrs of Gp B services attain a better pay and promotional avenue and manage to reach the level of Joint Secretary / Maj Gen before retiring . In fact, now Sub Inspectors of CRPF/BSF/ITBP too can beat Def Services Offrs when they too will retire with the salary of Addl Secretary /Lt Gen, if they get promoted as Asstt Comdt / DSP in 8 yrs. All this will only fuel frustration, disgruntlement and will have a demoralising effect on the Armed Forces Offrs. (c) Since Def Offrs will have to work alongside some of the Organised Gp A Services mentioned, a disparity of this magnitude will lead to functional problems .In some stations, it is already being heard that Civ Offrs have started projecting themselves as senior to top military offr like Stn Cdr. In a specific case a Civ Chief Engineer
   of MES has started considering himself senior to a COS due to NFU and started saying so all around. Such problems will only increase in future. Moreover, this issue must not be allowed to linger till 7th CPC for
   resolution. If our top brass stands up united on this issue, the govt will have to accept it. Service HQs are aware of this issue and had sent a proposal to MoD, but it has been rejected. However , the issue> needs a more forceful pleading duly backed by Service Offrs unanimously.
8. Benefits of NFU : It will not only benefit the offrs facing stagnation at the level of Lt Col, Col, and Brig, but will
   also benefit senior offrs like Maj Gen and Lt Gen who otherwise pick up their ranks in 29 yrs and 35 yrs resp, as they will too start drawing the pay of Maj Gen in 19 yrs of service and that of Lt Gen in 32 yrs of service.
9. What can you do : Don’t accept ‘ fait accompli’, Spread awareness, as knowledge is power. Apprise more and more offrs about this discrimination. Raise it in appropriate forums to escalate its level and let the top brass take it up as seriously as PB-4 issue with the govt for IT IS, AS SERIOUS AN ISSUE. It not only affects pay, it also affects status. So please do your bit, at least ask for it from your seniors. If you have anything more to add to this mail, which is relevant and factually correct, please go ahead and add on for the benefit of all, and circulate this in your Yahoo/Google/any other groups of various courses/ batches on the Interne

Major General Ashok Coomar

Nice article. Most serving army by/defence personnel are clueless about it. Needs max circulation to all groups on media.

Satish Kumar Sharma

N 1987, I joined Gujarat as an IPS probationer and called on the state DGP. He asked me why I had left my job of an SBI officer to become a cop at a substantial salary cut. I avoided mentioning the real motives — power and glamour — and said I did not want to do a desk job all my life.

He retorted sarcastically, ‘And what do you think we are here? We are also babus and I am the burra babu of the Gujarat Police!’

Apparently, he hated the excessive paperwork that had crept into police procedures; even he had not been able to do anything about this because the government and the courts wanted it that way. Perhaps it was a legacy of the Bombay state, of which Gujarat was a part before it became a separate state in 1960. However, while the DGP himself rued it, other officers took pride in the length of reports and the thickness of the bundles of investigation papers they produced.

One document was talked about with awe in those days. It was a near book-length affidavit of the Commissioner of Police, Ahmedabad, which he had filed before the commission of inquiry looking into the communal riots of 1985. In the affidavit, he had traced the history of communal riots in Gujarat since the Mughal period. It is another matter that his academic knowledge had been of little help in controlling the violence.

As I settled in the job, I found that most documents — FIRs, statements of witnesses, panchnamas and all kinds of reports — tended to be unusually lengthy. I tried to impress upon my staff that a statement before the police had little evidentiary value and the more details it had the greater material it supplied to the defence counsel to contradict the witness and demolish his credibility. But I did not succeed much. Needless to say, not many officers read the lengthy documents and much of the voluminous record was created only for the records.

Brig Jagbir Singh Grewal retd

OUR newly posted brigade commander took charge in July 1995. Thenceforth, it was a hectic schedule with briefings, introduction to various roles and familiarisation with the terrain. The responsibility to acquaint the brigade commander with the battalion’s area of operations fell on me, the battalion commander. A palpable chill pervaded the air as we drove off from Udhampur in a small convoy during the twilight hours. Short of Patnitop, we veered off the winding mountainous road to Chenani — a quaint old township. This road further led to Mantalai, which boasted of an airstrip and housed the ashram of the famed Dhirendra Brahmachari, who had wielded tremendous power in his heyday. The site had fallen into disuse after his demise in 1994.

After having driven the vehicle for a few kilometres on the bumpy road hedged within the scraggy pine trees, our Maruti Gypsy suddenly rattled and shook badly. Instantly, a deafening, earth-shaking explosion nearly burst our eardrums, and the accompanying intense flash of lightning swept through the surroundings. Bringing the vehicle to a screeching halt and flinging open its doors, we dashed towards the mountainside to seek cover behind the crevices and bends of the rocky terrain as splinters and stones chased us, chunks of earth trickled downslope and massive boulders thunderously rolled down the mountain — we had been ambushed.

Expecting that rapid gunfire would target us at any moment and reveal the hostile party’s location, we cocked our weapons, waiting to retaliate promptly. But no gunfire came as we stood by endlessly, for what seemed like ages. I realised that an indigenous type of explosive device had been laid on our route and it had been blown up prematurely a few yards ahead of our vehicle, possibly by nervous operators. ‘What a waste of effort,’ remarked our brigade commander. ‘Anyway, I have been battle-inoculated adequately,’ he joked, perhaps to reduce the discernible tension.

The protection party escorting us briskly moved uphill from our flank to secure a foothold on the ridge-line that overlooked the explosion site. They accosted a few naive-looking, ill-clad farmers who were tilling their land. After this miraculous escape, I also expeditiously ascended the cliff and got the uneven terrace-shaped fields cordoned off. A prompt search operation revealed an abandoned terrorist hideout. A cache of arms, ammunition and some tinned eatables was unearthed.

The explosive device had been laid by the insurgents’ overground workers, who were initially perceived to be innocent. They would have been paid by the insurgents. Addressing the latter as terrorists is befitting, because terrorism is their vocation. Exposing themselves for the cowards they are, these terrorists remain hidden while executing their nefarious designs through their informers and moles, who succumb to greed of petty sums.