Top Current Affairs 26 December 2023
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Stealth Guided Missile Destroyer 'Imphal' Commissioned (Defence)
- Indian Navy will commission the indigenously-built stealth guided missile destroyer INS Imphal on December 26, 2023.
- In the presence of Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, the warship will be commissioned at a ceremony in the naval dockyard in Mumbai.
- The ship was delivered to the Indian Navy in October 2023 after a rigorous and comprehensive trial both in the harbour and at sea.
- INS Imphal is the first warship to have been named after a city from the Northeastern region, the approval for which was accorded by the President in April 201