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GOC escapes narrowly as Indian Army helicopter crashes in Ladakh, reignites Cheetah-Chetak debate
The selfie taken by Maj Gen Sachin Mehta (L) soon after the chopper crash. (Photo via X)New Delhi: A single-engine Cheetah helicopter carrying three Indian Army officers crashed, on Wednesday, in the high-altitude terrain of Tangtse, in eastern Ladak...
Explained: CDS ‘advisor to who?’ and ‘first among equals’ debate
Lt Gen NS Raja Subramani will assume the post of India’s 3rd CDS on May 31, 2026. (File photo) New Delhi: When the post of chief of defence staff was created in late 2019, it was welcomed with fanfare and, almost immediately, misread. That...
CAPFs Act 2026: A law that undermines the very forces it claims to strengthen
Illustration for representation. (© India Sentinels 2026–27)On April 9, the Central Armed Police Forces (General Administration) Act, 2026 – notified as Act No. 9 of 2026 – was published in the Gazette of India (Extraordinary) ...
Trampling of Trust: The nightmare of a ‘deshbhakt’
Illustration for representation. (© India Sentinels 2026–27)The veterans of the central armed police forces (CAPFs) have served this nation in uniform with uncommon elan, dignity, and devotion. Long after they have laid down their uniforms...
Address the deformities in CAPF structure
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...
Indian Army brigadier and his son beaten up in Delhi; FIR filed 45 hours later after public outcry
Nitasha Arora, Brig Parminder Singh Arora’s wife, narrating the incident to media. New Delhi: A serving Indian Army brigadier and his son were allegedly beaten by a group of men in a southwest Delhi residential colony late on Saturday nigh...
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's 'Surya Devbhoomi Challenge 2.0': 113-km high-altitude race in Uttarakhand's Char Dham corridor
Dehradun: The Indian Army is set to host the second edition of the ‘Surya Devbhoomi Challenge’, a high-altitude endurance event, from April 16 to 20 across the Char Dham Himalayan corridor of Uttarakhand.The event is being held in pa...
Commanded into Crisis: The systematic wrecking of CAPFs’ moral fabric
Illustration for representation. (© India Sentinels 2026–27)The central armed police forces – BSF, CRPF, CISF, ITBP, and SSB – are, in a very real sense, miniature Indias. Drawn from every corner of this huge country, they brin...
Stagnant Ranks, Broken Morale: The cost of CAPF’s skewed HR policies
CRPF commandos in an anti-Naxalite operations camp in Chhattisgarh. (Photo for representation)A slow-burning crisis is consuming India’s central armed police forces (CAPFs) from within. Not a crisis of courage – the jawans and officers of...Results
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