India will soon hold talks with the United States and Germany to enhance defence cooperation, especially for collaboration in building defence equipment in India with US and German technology. Read More

In what is seen as a major step towards compartmentalization of the country’s armed forces into integrated theatre commands, the Indian Army, Indian Navy, and the Indian Air Force will cross-post mid- and junior-level officers into a sister service, India Sentinels has learned. Read More

The defence ministry’s Dirang-based National Institute of Mountaineering and Adventure Sports has launched a one-of-its-kind expedition to hoist the national flag at the highest point of all the country’s state. Read More

China has now started building up pressure on India in the middle sector on the disputed border between the two countries, which is also known as the line of actual control or the LAC. Read More

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