The military is 'totally prepared to stand up to the demands made by the government and the people.'
The triennial exercise will take place for two hours and fifteen minutes during the day, dusk and night, he said.
A week after claiming that high ranking officials from the Ministry of Defence were targeting the Adarsh society as they were not granted membership, the society has now trained its gun on former army chief V K Singh, accusing him of being behind the "plot" to "settle scores with his predecessors".
PM Oli said that "there has been good friendship between Nepal and India".
'The Indian Army is fully prepared for a long and permanent deployment if the PLA does not retreat.'
The destabilising and corrosive behaviour of the Chinese Community Party in the Indo-Pacific region is simply not helpful and some of the defence infrastructure that is being set up by China near its border with India is alarming, US Army's Pacific Commanding General Charles A Flynn said on Wednesday.