Fresh officers during a pass-out ceremony at the CRPF Academy at Kedarpur, Gurugram, Haryana. (File photo for representation.) When Parliament passed the Central Armed Police Forces (General Administration) Bill, 2026, it did more than legislate...
CRPF personnel deployed in an anti-Naxalite operation in Chhattisgarh. (File photo) Let me say this plainly, and without apology: the claim that officers of the Indian Police Service are inherently superior to cadre officers of the central armed...
A BSF solder keeping watch over the other side of the international border with Pakistan, somewhere in the western section. (File photo for representation) Let me be direct about something that tends to get buried under bureaucratic language and...
The Indian Army chief, Gen Upendra Dwivedi, pinning a medal on a BSF soldier for playing an exceptional role during Operation Sindoor, in May 2025. (File photo)The Border Security Force, the Indo-Tibetan Border Police, and the Sashastra Seema Bal gua...
BSF troops patrol along a border fence between India and Bangladesh in West Bengal. (File photo)The chief minister of West Bengal, Mamata Banerjee, made a calculated intervention during a state assembly discussion on the governor’s address on F...
New Delhi: In collaboration with the Centre for Joint Warfare Studies (CENJOWS), the tri-services have commenced the third edition of the Future Warfare Course at the Manekshaw Centre, New Delhi, from February 2.Conducted under the aegis of Headquart...
CRPF assistant commandant Simran Bala (Photo: X) New Delhi: As the nation prepares to celebrate its 77th Republic Day, 26-year-old Simran Bala from Jammu and Kashmir is set to create history by leading an all-male marching contingent of the Cent...
This is an excerpt from P Sesh Kumar’s book “Under The Scalpel: Reviving India's Medical Education.”Indonesia provides a cautionary yet ultimately encouraging tale of a country that experienced a rapid growth of medical schools ...
An artist’s rendition of the Supreme Court of India.New Delhi: The Supreme Court has upheld the dismissal of Lieutenant Samuel Kamalesan, a Christian officer in the Indian Army’s 3rd Cavalry Regiment, who refused to enter the sanctum sanc...