An Indian Air Force B-24 Liberator. This is the story of the Indian Air Force’s first heavy bomber and the indigenous “jugaad” (ingenuity) that helped the service develop this capability, as told by the force itself on social m...
Rajnath Singh near the lighthouse at Indira Point, Andaman and Nicobar Islands. (Photo: Defence ministry)New Delhi: The defence minister, Rajnath Singh, visited Indira Point – the country’s southernmost top, on Friday. This visit took pla...
New Delhi: The Indian Air Force, on Thursday, said it has successfully test-fired a longer-ranged version of the Brahmos air-launched supersonic cruise missile against a ship target from a Sukhoi-30MKI aircraft.The service said the missile achieved t...
Lt Yog Raj Palta. This is the story of Lieutenant Yog Raj Palta, a young and adventurous Indian Army officer who loved his Royal Enfield bike and Panama cigarettes – and immortalized himself in the 1962 India-China war.Yog Raj Palta was bo...
Agniveer aspirants appearing for written test. (File)Srinagar: The first batch of recruits under the newly introduced Agnipath recruitment scheme from the Union territory of Jammu & Kashmir has joined the Indian Army for training, the Defence PRO...
Veterans at New Delhi’s Jantar Mantar demanding for implementation of one rank, one pension. (File photo)New Delhi: The Union Cabinet headed by the prime minister, Narendra Modi, has approved the revision of pension armed forces’ pensione...
Indian tanks in Ladakh. (Representational photo)New Delhi: The Defence Acquisition Council, headed by the defence minister, Rajnath Singh, has given its approval for acceptance of necessity (AoN) to acquire 24 different types of weapons, weapon syste...
Indian and Chinese troops facing each other across a rivulet near the LAC in the Tawang sector. (Photo for representation)The recent clash at the line of actual control in Arunachal Pradesh’s Yangtse plateau near Tawang is the continuation of a...
Arnala being showered with flower petals during her launch in Chennai. (Photo: GRSE)Chennai: “Arnala”, the first of the eight ships being built by the Garden Reach Shipbuilders & Engineers under the Anti-Submarine Warfare Short Waterc...
BSF Mahila Praharis on floating border outpost Ganga in the Sundarbans. (Photo: BSF) Kolkata: The Border Security Force has for the first time deployed “Mahila Praharis” women guards in the Sundarbans delta in south Bengal. The Sunda...