New Delhi: Defence Minister Rajnath Singh has approved a proposal for extension of the rules for Maternity, Child Care and Child Adoption Leaves for women soldiers, sailors and air warriors in the Armed Forces at par with their officer counterparts.&...
Former Indian Army chief Gen MM Naravane (retd) at IIC in Delhi New Delhi: Flagging the Chinese aid to several insurgent groups in northeastern part of the country, former Indian Army chief General Manoj Mukund Naravane (Retd) said that the invo...
Newly attested Gorkha Agniveer soldiers pose with senior officers after taking oath. (File photo)New Delhi: In what is seen as a major shift in policy triggered by personnel shortage, the armed forces are mulling to permanently retain 50 per cent of ...
Agniveers pose with senior officers after their attestation ceremony at the Jammu & Kashmir Regimental Centre, Srinagar. (Photo by special arrangement.) Srinagar/Nagpur/Prayagraj: The first batch of Agniveer recruits who completed their six-...
Bhubaneswar: A total of 2585 Agniveers, including 272 women of the Indian Navy passed out from the portals of INS Chilka, at Odhisa, in a first of its kind ceremonial, post sunset Passing Out Parade, held on Tuesday.The POP was held under the aegis o...
The Delhi high court.New Delhi: The Delhi high court on Monday dismissed a batch of pleas challenging the newly announced Agnipath scheme for recruitment of the Agniveers in the defence forces, stating that the scheme has been made in national i...
Agniveer candidates taking a test in Jammu & Kashmir, in 2022. (Representational photo)New Delhi: The Indian Army has changed its selection process for new Agniveers. Now, from the next recruitment session, candidates will have to take an online ...
Nirmala Sitharaman, Union finance minister, before presenting the Budget 2023-24 in Parliament. (Photo: Twitter)New Delhi: The finance minister, Nirmala Sitharaman, allocated ₹5.94 lakh crore for the defence sector while announcing the Union Bu...
(Representational image)New Delhi: In his first virtual interaction with the Agniveers of the three services, who have commenced their basic training, the prime minister, Narendra Modi, said on Monday that the technologically-advanced soldiers will p...
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...