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Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], September 8 (ANI/NewsVoir): EC-Council, the leading global cybersecurity certification body, has announced the release of its flagship Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) version 12 program, and plans to train up 100,000 new ethical hackers worldwide within 5 years to address the severe shortage of Certified Ethical Hackers across the globe.

Washington [US], August 2 (ANI): The United States announced to deliver USD 550 million package of military aid to Ukraine, the State Department informed in a statement on Monday.

Washington [US], June 24 (ANI): US has authorized another drawdown of arms and equipment from US Department of Defense inventories for Ukraine's defense, State Department said in a press release.

Washington [US], April 21 (ANI): The United States on Thursday authorized new military assistance worth USD 800 million for Ukraine.

Washington [US], April 3 (ANI/Sputnik): Another detainee will be transferred from the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camp to Algeria, the US Department of Defense announced on Saturday.

Washington [US], January 3 (ANI): US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has contracted COVID-19 and will remain quarantined at home for at least five days, he said in a statement released by the US Department of Defense on Sunday (local time).

Washington [US], December 24 (ANI): Pentagon in an upgrade of its policy on Thursday (local time) expanded the scope of the word "extremism" to include terrorism. "The term 'extremist activities; means.... Advocating, engaging in, or supporting terrorism, within the US or abroad."

Itanagar Dec 22 PTI Amid reports of China building villages along the border with Arunachal Pradesh the northeastern state has taken up a comprehensive project to build infrastructure in villages in borderlands to stop people from migrating from the remote ice-clad areasThe state government has submitted a Rs 4000-crore proposal to the union home ministry to help build infrastructure in all the border villagesThe proposal has been already cleared by the ministry after a meeting at the highest level and will now go before the Union Cabinet Once cleared border areas will be developed with all amenities so that migration can be stopped Chief Minister Pema Khandu said in an interview to PTIThe project aims at building roads health centers and educational institutions besides creating new safe water supply schemes and electrifying villages and upgrading mobile connectivity Khandu saidThe chief minister added that he had also requested the Centre for special 4G towers in the border villages This comes after reports that many border places catch Chinese mobile signals but are unable to connect with Indian mobile or data service providersKhandu has been strongly pitching for development of border areas to stop migration of border populace looking for a better quality of lifeThe Arunachal Pradesh government is also developing three model villages in the Indo-Tibet border areas one each in the eastern central and one western part of the stateDeputy Chief Minister Chowna Mein who is also in charge for finance department while presenting the state budget for 2021-22 had said I am happy to announce a major initiative to develop three Model Villages on a pilot basis in the Indo-Tibet-China border areas one each in the Eastern Central and one Western part of the State I propose to earmark a fund of Rs 30 Crore for the same These model villages would serve as pilot projects which will be further expanded to cover many more such villages The scheme would encompass innovative ways to dovetail social-economic-cultural needs of village life while establishing the model villages Khandu pointed outResponding to a question on media reports about China constructing a second village cluster of at least 60 buildings in the state approximately 6 km within India the chief minister informed that he had recently visited Shi-Yomi district and had interaction with the personnel of Army paramilitary forces and local residents of Monigong area where reportedly the village was builtThere is no such development as reported by the army paramilitary forces and local residents Whatever construction has happened is within the Tibet-China territory Khandu addedThe new enclave could be seen in images accessed by a national television channel from two major satellite imagery providers Maxar Technologies and Planet Labs and its exact location was clearly indicated on Bharatmaps a Government of India online map serviceThe reports claimed that the new enclave did not exist in 2019 according to the satellite images a year later it can be seen According to reports Chinese enclave was within Shi Yomi district of Arunachal Pradesh and was constructed between March 2019 and February 2021Earlier in November this year a report of the US Department of Defense confirmed that in 2020 China built a large 100-home civilian village which it said was built on disputed territory between the Chinese Tibet Autonomous Region and Arunachal Pradesh in the eastern sector of the LACIn its report to the US Congress Pentagon said that in 2020 China had built a large 100-home civilian village inside disputed territory between Chinas Tibet Autonomous Region and Arunachal Pradesh state in the eastern sector of the LACArunachal Pradesh shares a 1080-km border with China 440 km with Myanmar and 160 km with Bhutan Twenty of the states 60 Assembly constituencies touch the international borders 13 of them with China PTI UPL JRC RBT RBT

Washington [US], November 3 (ANI): A new study has added to the evidence that chemotherapy enhances cancer's spread beyond the primary tumour, showing how one chemo drug allows breast cancer cells to squeeze through and attach to blood vessel linings in the lungs.