India is carrying out large-scale maneuvers near the border with Pakistan

More than 30.000 Indian soldiers are taking part in maneuvers in the Thar desert, near the border with Pakistan. Tank, airborne and artillery units are taking part in the large regular six-day military exercise, and the aim is to train the soldiers for warfare in the desert, the spokesperson of the Indian Army SD said today. Goswami. The temperature in Sugarat, where the exercises are taking place, at this time is about 42 degrees Celsius. Sugarat is 70 kilometers from the border with Pakistan, a country with which India has been at war several times since it gained independence from Great Britain after the Second World War. The exercise has the code name "Vijaye bava" or "Be a winner".