The Chief of Defence Staff, General Anil Chauhan, is pushing hard for “theatre commands” – a fancy term for putting Army, Navy and Air Force units under single commanders for different regions. He calls it the “next orbit” of making our forces work together better.

The stargazers in India and in other parts of the world will be able to witness a lunar eclipse, called a blood moon, due to a phenomenon called Rayleigh scattering. Blue light is scattered more easily than red, leaving the Moon with its iconic “bloody” glow, according to reports.