July 26 is celebrated as Kargil Vijay Diwas. However, circumstances that led to this Kargil war and brought two nuclear-armed neighbours to the precipice remain mired in mystery. Were the intelligence agencies not able to convert the information avai...
New Delhi: The ministry of defence has issued the formal government sanction letter for grant of permanent commission (PC) to women officers in the Indian Army, paving the way for empowering women officers to shoulder larger roles in the organization...
New Delhi: Stating that India is emerging as a land of opportunities, the prime minister, Narendra Modi, on Wednesday, invited investors from the United States to invest in India in a range of sectors, like defence, space, energy, healthcare, agricul...
New Delhi: Amid the ongoing border tensions with China along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in Eastern Ladakh, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Wednesday urged the Indian Air Force (IAF) to stand ready to handle any eventuality.After inauguration ...
Rajnath Singh at Air Force Commanders' Conference New Delhi: Amid the ongoing border standoff with China in Eastern Ladakh, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Wednesday inaugurated the three-day long Air Force Commanders’ Conference at ...
An Indian Army T-90 tank during a desert drill.New Delhi: In order to give a fillip to the government’s ambitious initiative “Make in India” programme, the defence ministry (MoD) signed a pact with Bharat Earth Movers Limited for pr...
New Delhi: The Ministry of External Affairs on Saturday said Nidan Singh Sachdeva, a leader of the Hindu and Sikh Community of Afghanistan, who was kidnapped in Chamkani district of Paktia province on June 22, has been released from captivity.“...
Representative photo from Creative Commons.“... somewhere, my love”War is about death. Death of the human body and humanity per se. Erik Maria Remarque in his epoch-making “All Quiet on the Western Front” got his lead characte...
New Delhi: The Border Security Force (BSF) has lodged a strong protest with Border Guard Bangladesh after Bangladeshi smugglers allegedly attacked its personnel at Jalangi border outpost in Murshidabad district of West Bengal.The BSF personnel was on...
The Tibet plateau has a long association with India from ancient times. Descendants of Tibetan tribes came and settled in parts of north India centuries ago, like the Kinnauri-speaking people of Himachal Pradesh. We shared trade and other cultural ti...