{"id":13687,"date":"2016-07-15T11:44:05","date_gmt":"2016-07-15T11:44:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=13687"},"modified":"2016-07-15T11:44:05","modified_gmt":"2016-07-15T11:44:05","slug":"ins-karna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/ins-karna\/","title":{"rendered":"INS Karna"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Question: Marine Commando Force (MCF) is also known as-<\/strong><br \/>\n(a) Carlos<br \/>\n(b) Marcos<br \/>\n(c) Defence Force<br \/>\n(d) Naval Staff<br \/>\n<strong>Ans: (b)<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Related facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">On 12 July 2016 Admiral Sunil Lanba, PVSM, AVSM, ADC, Chief of the Naval Staff commissioned the Marine Commandos Unit as \u2018INS Karna\u2019 in a solemn ceremony held at the Naval Base at Bheemunipatanam.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Marine Commando Force (MCF), also called as the \u2018MARCOS\u2019, was raised in February 1987 as the Indian Marine Special Force (IMSF).<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">MARCOS are capable of operating in all three dimensions, at sea, in air and on land.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Captain Varun Singh has been named as the Commanding officer of INS Karna.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">MARCOS have established themselves as Special Operations Force of international repute in a short span and have won well deserved gallantry awards for their acts of courage and valour.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Reference:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/pib.nic.in\/newsite\/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=146997\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/pib.nic.in\/newsite\/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=146997<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/indiannavy.nic.in\/content\/chief-naval-staff-commissions-ins-karna\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/indiannavy.nic.in\/content\/chief-naval-staff-commissions-ins-karna<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/admiral-lanba-commissions-marine-commandos-unit-ins-karna\/article8839250.ece\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/admiral-lanba-commissions-marine-commandos-unit-ins-karna\/article8839250.ece<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Marine Commando Force (MCF) is also known as- (a) Carlos (b) Marcos (c) Defence Force (d) Naval Staff Ans: (b) Related facts: On 12 July 2016 Admiral Sunil Lanba, PVSM, AVSM, ADC, Chief of the Naval Staff commissioned the Marine Commandos Unit as \u2018INS Karna\u2019 in a solemn ceremony held at the Naval Base [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13590,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1131],"tags":[2377],"class_list":["post-13687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dssn","tag-defensescience-short-notes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}