With over 75 per cent indigenous content, the frigate is among the most self-reliant frontline warships built in India.
INS Udaygiri and INS Himagiri marks the first occasion when two frontline surface combatants constructed at two different shipyards were commissioned simultaneously.
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh launched the Indian Navy's new destroyer warship INS Surat and the Indian Navy's new frigate INS Udaygiri, in Mumbai, May 17, 2022.
Indigenously built by a Kolkata-based company, the vessel embodies India's growing shipbuilding prowess with over 80 per cent locally sourced components.
This is the first time that the two indigenously built warships have been launched concurrently.
This firing is a significant step towards achieving self-reliance in niche missile technology. Navy said.
Fresh arson broke out in riot-ravaged Kandhamal district on Monday after a lull of three weeks as eight houses of a particular community were set ablaze at villages. Miscreants set ablaze the houses though the police confirmed only one incident at Sujeli village under G Udaygiri police station area.
Bharatiya Janata Party Member of Orissa assembly, Manoj Kumar Pradhan, a convict in two Kandhamal riot cases, on Wednesday surrendered before a local court in Phulbani after his bail by the Orissa high court was challenged in the Supreme Court.
With law and order situation improving in Orissa's riot-scarred Kandhamal district, day curfew was suspended on Monday even as the death toll rose to 16 with the recovery of two bodies.
A person was killed and three injured in a bomb explosion at a rehabilitation centre in Kandhamal district today, the police said.
Notwithstanding the shoot-at-sight order imposed in eight blocks of riot-ravaged Kandhamal, violence continued on Thursday in remote areas of the communally sensitive district in a backlash to the killing of Vishwa Hindu Parishad leader Laxmanananda Saraswati.Information about some incidents were received from some remote places of Tikabali, G Udaygiri and other areas while the situation was under control in most areas of Kandhamal, said District Collector Krishan Kumar.
Twelve churches and prayer houses were ransacked and torched by suspected saffron activists in several areas of Kandhamal district in Orissa in the early hours of Thursday.
The houses, a church and a prayer hall were either torched or damaged by miscreants at Raikia, G Udaygiri, Daringibadi and some other areas, sources said.
Additional forces were deployed and curfew clamped in sensitive areas of Orissa's Kandhamal district on Thursday in the wake of fresh violence and arson in the region.Nearly 100 houses and a couple of churches and prayer houses were either set afire or damaged in about half-a-dozen places under Daringibadi, G Udaygiri and Tikabali police stations in the wee hours of Thursday morning, sources said.
'The Raksha Mantri's day at sea'/
An Indian Navy vessel and an Air Force aircraft carrying nearly 1,000 tons of fresh water reached Male on Sunday as India mounted a major effort to help the Maldivian capital that is reeling from an acute shortage of drinking water after its lone desalination plant caught fire.
