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X Corps (India)
X Corps is a corps of the Indian Army. It is based in Bathinda and is a part of South Western Command (India), South Western Command. The X (Chetak) Corps was raised at Bathinda on 1 July 1979 by Lieutenant General ML Tuli, to reduce the load of XI Corps (India), XI Corps. The new corps took over south Punjab, India, Punjab and north Rajasthan. Organisation The corps has two of the army's Reorganised Army Plains Infantry Divisions (RAPIDs). It consists of: *16th Infantry Division (India), 16 Infantry Division ''(Amogh Division)'' headquartered at Sri Ganganagar, Rajasthan *18th Infantry Division (India), 18 Infantry Division (RAPID) ''(Gandiv Division)'' at Kota, Rajasthan *24th Infantry Division (India), 24 Infantry Division (RAPID) ''(Ranbankura Division)'' at Bikaner, Rajasthan. In 2001, 24th Artillery Brigade and 180th Armoured Brigade were at Bikaner, 25th Infantry Brigade was at Bathinda, Punjab and 83rd Infantry Brigade was at Lalgarh Jattan. *6 (Independent) Armoured B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
India
India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the southwest, and the Bay of Bengal on the southeast, it shares land borders with Pakistan to the west; China, Nepal, and Bhutan to the north; and Bangladesh and Myanmar to the east. In the Indian Ocean, India is in the vicinity of Sri Lanka and the Maldives; its Andaman and Nicobar Islands share a maritime border with Thailand, Myanmar, and Indonesia. Modern humans arrived on the Indian subcontinent from Africa no later than 55,000 years ago., "Y-Chromosome and Mt-DNA data support the colonization of South Asia by modern humans originating in Africa. ... Coalescence dates for most non-European populations average to between 73–55 ka.", "Modern human beings—''Homo sapiens''—originated in Africa. Then, int ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |