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Operation Polo: Mewar Infantry’s last battle
Mewar Infantry battle honours flag. (Photo: Jai Samota)After centuries of fighting in the north and the west, Mewar was called out once more – this time to the south. Having fought Arabs, Mughals and Marathas, the state’s infantry now fac...
Air Vice Marshal Cecil Vivian Parker: Bishop Westcott schoolboy who became a 1971 war hero
Air Vice Marshal Cecil Vivian Parker.On a December morning in 1971, four Hawker Hunters of the Indian Air Force’s 20 Squadron thundered 120 kilometres into Pakistani territory to strike an airbase most commanders would have judged beyond safe r...
CDS Gen Anil Chauhan highlights Operation Sindoor as model of triservice coordination
Gen Anil Chauhan during his address at the College of Defence Management, Secunderabad.Secunderabad: The chief of defence staff, General Anil Chauhan, described Operation Sindoor as exemplifying synergy between the country’s three armed service...
Indian Army appoints Lieutenant General Pushpendra Singh new vice-chief as security challenges mount
Lt Gen Pushpendra Singh. (Photo: Indian Army) New Delhi: Lieutenant General Pushpendra Singh assumed charge as vice-chief of the Army staff, on Thursday. He brings nearly four decades of Special Forces experience to the Army’s second-highe...
Lieutenant General Vikas Lakhera takes charge as director general of Assam Rifles
Lt Gen Vikas Lakhera. (Photo: Assam Rifles)Shillong/New Delhi: Lieutenant General Vikas Lakhera, AVSM, SM, has officially assumed the role of the 22nd director general of the Assam Rifles – the oldest paramilitary force in India, often referred...
Rear Admiral R Vijay Sekhar takes charge as admiral superintendent Visakhapatnam naval dockyard
Rear Adm Sanjay Sadhu hands over the baton to Rear Admiral R Vijay SekharVisakhapatnam: Senior Indian Navy officer Rear Admiral R Vijay Sekhar took over as the admiral superintendent of the Vizag naval dockyard here from Rear Admiral Sanjay Sadhu, on...
Starting from Himachal Pradesh’s Yol, government moves to abolish ‘archaic colonial practice’ of keeping Army cantonments, evokes mixed reaction from veterans
A ground in the Yol cantonment. (Photo: Defence PRO) New Delhi: 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 ...
Lt Gen Manish Erry assumes command of Tezpur-based Gajraj Corps
New Delhi: Senior Indian Army officer Lt Gen Manish Erry has assumed command of the Tezpur-based Gajraj Corps.Gajraj Corps is responsible for the Kameng sector along the northern borders.Lt Gen Manish Erry is from infantry and was commissioned ...
15 young Australian military officers visiting India under exchange programme named after General Bipin Rawat
Gen Bipin Rawat was India’s first chief of defence staff.New Delhi: Fifteen officers from the Australian defence forces are visiting India from March 1 under the inaugural General Rawat India-Australia Young Defence Officers’ Exchange Pro...
Maj Gen Sanjiv Singh Slaria takes over as GOC Counter Insurgency Force Kilo
Srinagar: Major General Sanjiv Singh Slaria, took over as General Officer Commanding, Counter Insurgency Force Kilo on August 30.Major General SH Sahi on relinquishing the command moves to Delhi on an important assignment in Army Headquarters. Maj Ge...Results
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