New Delhi: Moving a step further towards women empowerment in the armed forces, Squadron Leader Aashritha V Olety has become the first female flight test engineer in the Indian Air Force.Hailing from Karnataka, the woman officer has graduated a...
Vizag: The first destroyer of Indian Navy - INS Rajput was decommissioned at Naval Dockyard in Visakhapatnam after serving the nation for 41 glorious years on Friday.The ship was decommissioned in a solemn and low key event due to the ongoing COVID P...
Vizag: On May 21st, a glorious era will come to an end with the decommissioning of the Indian Navy’s first destroyer - INS Rajput.INS Rajput, the lead ship of the Kashin-class destroyers built by the erstwhile USSR was commissioned on May 4, 19...
Men carry a corpse on the banks of Ganga where other bodies can be seen buried in shallow graves some 40km from Allahabad.I could not but compliment the proactive steps some dynastic regimes have taken in the first half of 2020 in controlling the nov...
New Delhi: In the backdrop of the deteriorating security situation in the Gulf region, post attacks on merchant ships in the Gulf of Oman in June 2019, Indian Navy had commenced Maritime Security Operations, code named Op SANKALP, in the Gulf Region ...
CRPF personnel carry the coffin of a fallen fellow soldier in the April 3, 2021 Maoist attack in Chhattisgarh.Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, during his premiership, had once termed the Maoist (or Naxalite) insurgency the “biggest interna...
Doha: External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and his counterpart from Qatar Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani on Monday discussed regional and multilateral developments.“Thank @MBA_AlThani_ Deputy PM and Foreign Minister of Qatar for...
New Delhi: India and Oman on Wednesday discussed bilateral relations ranging from health to food security.External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar talked to his Omani counterpart Badr Albusaidi and also exchanged views on regional and global issues.The...
Rafale fighter aircraftNew Delhi: A woman fighter pilot will soon join the Indian Air Force’s (IAF) Ambala-based 17 Squadron, the ‘Golden Arrows’, operating Rafale fighter aircraft, sources in the defence establishments said here on...
Slt K Tyagi and Slt Riti Singh New Delhi: In a first, two women officers have been selected to join as ‘Observers’ (Airborne Tacticians) in the Indian Navy’s helicopter stream.It would pave the way for women being posted in frontlin...