China has laid down its terms before India for disengagement of its troops with Indian soldiers in eastern Ladakh’s Depsang, where the Indian Army has been in a tense stand-off with China’s People’s Liberation Army since summer of 2020. Read More

The Centre has issued a notice that will see only women contingent taking part in the main Republic Day military parade next year in the capital’s Kartavya Path. This will be the first time that only women will take part in the grand parade on January 26, 2024. Not just the military parade, the marching bands, tableaux, and cultural performances will also have only women participants. Read More

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Saturday landed at Rajouri Army base camp in Jammu & Kashmir to take stock of the security situation in the border districts of Rajouri and Poonch. Read More

The Indian Army and the Indian Air Force recently concluded a monthlong joint combat exercise in the northeast with the Indo-Tibetan Border Police and the Sashastra Seema Bal, sources in the defence and security establishment revealed, on Thursday. The exercise took place at Mandala high-altitude area in Arunachal Pradesh. Read More

In a major development, the Narendra Modi-led government moved to abolish Indian Army cantonments across the country after terming creating (and maintaining) them as “archaic colonial practice”. The first cantonment to be abolished is the Yol cantonment in Himachal Pradesh. Many veterans have reacted to it positively and many negatively. Read More

In talks during the first high-level military visit from China since the start of the Ladakh stand-off in April 2020, the defence minister, Rajnath Singh, curtly told his Chinese counterpart, Li Shangfu, that (China’s) violation of existing agreements has eroded the entire basis of bilateral relations between the two countries. Read More

The strategic forces of the Indian Army and the Indian Air Force carried out a joint multidomain exercise in the eastern theatre, in the first week of April. The exercise was conducted to validate joint plans for strategic airlift of specialized forces employing the IAF’s fixed- and rotary-wing aircraft by landing or dropping in designated areas to provide a boost to regular ground forces engaged in combat operations. Read More

The projects to enhance surveillance, detection, tracking, and electronic warfare capabilities of the Indian Air Force. Read More

The DAC gave the initial nod for the procurement of 307 advanced towed artillery gun systems for the Indian Army and 200 BrahMos supersonic cruise missiles with extended range for the Indian Navy. Read More

Dirang-based National Institute of Mountaineering & Adventure Sports (NIMAS)-led by its director Colonel Ranveer Jamwal has created history by undertaking the first-ever cycling expedition in six South East Asian countries, covering a distance of 5,374 kilometers in just 37 days. Read More