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Pickaxe Mountain: The underground Iranian facility now in Trump’s crosshairs
Vantor Technologies image overview of Pickaxe Mountain. (Photo: Institute for Science and International Security)The US president, Donald Trump, has trained his sights on a heavily fortified underground facility in Iran known as Pickaxe Mountain, ope...
Explained: Why the Indian Army is climbing Gun Hill again before Kargil Vijay Diwas 2026
Veterans lead Indian Army's Gun Hill expedition. (Photo: adgpi)New Delhi/Dras: 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 Poin...
Who is Mahesh Dixit? New Intelligence Bureau chief replaces Tapan Kumar Deka
Mahesh Dixit (Photo: X)New Delhi: The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet has cleared the appointment of senior Indian Police Service (IPS) officer Mahesh Dixit as the next director of the Intelligence Bureau (IB), the country’s premier domes...
Indian Army bets big on drone warriors, to train 500,000 soldiers in five years
Illustration for representation. (© India Sentinels 2026–27)New Delhi: The Indian Army has drawn up one of the most ambitious military training programmes in its history: equipping 500,000 soldiers with drone warfare skills within the...
Armour Day: Steel, spirit and the making of India’s Armoured Corps
Indian Army soldiers on tanks during a Army Day parade in New Delhi. (File photo)Every year on May 1, the Indian Army observes Armour Day – a commemoration of its Armoured Corps that is equal parts history, pride, and resolve. The date marks th...
The 2569th birth anniversary of the Buddha and the significance of the holy relic exposition in Ladakh
Holy Relics of Tathagata Buddha (Photo: IBC) By Dr. Portia B. Conrad Every year, on the full moon of Vaishakha, Buddhists across the world stop. Lamps are lit. Monasteries fill with chanting. This year the day carries something extra - the ...
Who was General Zorawar Singh? The ‘Lion of Ladakh’ who conquered the Himalayas
General Zorawar Singh Kahluria was one of the greatest military commanders in 19th-century India. Born in 1786 in the small hill kingdom of Kahlur in present-day Himachal Pradesh, he came from a Rajput family of the Kahluria clan – a lineage wi...
Colonel Sonam Wangchuk, ‘Lion of Ladakh’ who won India’s first Kargil victory, dies at 61
Colonel Sonam Wangchuk, MVC (R) (January 27, 1964–April 10, 2026) New Delhi: Colonel Sonam Wangchuk, MVC (retired), the decorated Kargil war veteran who led the Indian Army’s first successful offensive operation of the 1999 conflict,...
Indian Army signs first capital procurement deal through Government e-Marketplace
New Delhi: The Indian Army has, for the first time, executed a capital procurement contract through Government e-Marketplace (GeM), a digital public procurement platform operated by the Union commerce and industry ministry. The contract, signed with ...
‘Project Himank’: Border Road Organisation launches snow-clearance operation on Leh-Manali highway
BRO’s snow-clearance operation in Leh (Photo: BRO)Leh: The Border Roads Organisation’s Project Himank has started snow-clearance operations on National Highway-3, the strategic Leh-Manali corridor via Sarchu, as part of the annual effort ...Results
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