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Droupadi Murmu flags off first President’s Bodyguard Soldierathon at Rashtrapati Bhavan

What is the President's Bodyguard Soldierathon?

President Droupadi Murmu flagged off the inaugural President's Bodyguard Soldierathon at Rashtrapati Bhavan, marking 253 years of the PBG and 27 years since the Kargil War victory. Read More

Indian Army, Rajasthan Police break up counterfeit combat uniform racket in Sriganganagar

Army, Rajasthan Police break up counterfeit uniform racket

A joint Army-police operation in Sriganganagar has seized nearly 1,000 metres of counterfeit combat uniform cloth, exposing a supply network linked to an earlier bust in Bareilly. Read More

General Vishwa Nath Sharma cremated with full military honours in Delhi

General VN Sharma cremated with full military honours in Delhi

General Vishwa Nath Sharma, the Indian Army’s first president’s commissioned officer to become chief of the army staff, was cremated with full military honours at Delhi’s Brar Square. Read More

General Vishwa Nath Sharma, Army chief who fought four major crises at once, dies at 96

Gen VN Sharma, Army chief who fought 4 big crises at once, dies at 96

General Vishwa Nath Sharma, the first president’s commissioned officer to lead the Indian Army and the man who steered it through the IPKF, Punjab and Kashmir crises at once, has died in Delhi at 96. Read More

From Bofors to Dhanush: How procurement delays held back Indian Army artillery modernization

PAC flags 20-year delay in Dhanush gun

A parliamentary panel has found that a near two-decade delay in producing and inducting the indigenous Dhanush artillery gun left the Indian Army reliant on outdated firepower, and has pressed the defence ministry to overhaul its procurement decision-making. Read More

Why the Indian Army quietly removed the ‘Karam Kshetra’ painting from General Dhiraj Seth’s?

Army chief's lounge returns to neutral backdrop after painting row

The painting that replaced the iconic 1971 Pakistan surrender artwork in the Army chief’s South Block lounge, and stirred a bitter row over religious imagery in a secular institution, has itself now been quietly taken down. Read More

General Dhiraj Seth reviews battle readiness in northeast

Two weeks after raising the Army's first integrated battle groups along the China border, chief General Dhiraj Seth toured forward formations in Sikkim and Arunachal Pradesh to review operational readiness. Read More

Explained: Why the Indian Army is climbing Gun Hill again before Kargil Vijay Diwas 2026

Army retraces Gun Hill battle before Kargil Vijay Diwas

Ahead of the 27th anniversary of Operation Vijay, the Indian Army has sent a team of veterans and serving soldiers up Gun Hill, the Dras-sector peak once known as Point 5140, to retrace one of the most closely studied artillery operations of the 1999 Kargil War. Read More

Indian Army seeks 450 Carl Gustaf Mk-IV launchers

The Indian Army has issued an RFP to procure 450 Carl Gustaf Mk-IV rocket launchers. It aimed to bolster infantry firepower with lighter, more accurate and all-weather shoulder-fired weapon systems. Read More

Indian Army peacekeepers decorated with UN medals

651 Indian Army peacekeepers were awarded the United Nations Medal at a ceremony in Sake, eastern DR Congo, for service with Monusco amid an uncertain mandate and continuing M23-linked violence in North Kivu. Read More