Lt Gen Ram Chandra Tiwari. (Photo: Rashtrapati Bhavan)New Delhi: Lieutenant General Ram Chandra Tiwari has been appointed the next general officer commanding in chief of the key Eastern Army Command. He will replace the incumbent Eastern Army GO...
MV Ruen. (Photo: Indian Navy)New Delhi: The Indian Navy said its “mission deployed” platforms responded to a distress call sent by a Malta-flagged vessel, MV Ruen, in the Arabian Sea. The Navy, suspecting a piracy attempt, said it diverte...
Gurpatwant Singh Pannu.New Delhi: After the US prosecutors’ sensational allegations in a Manhattan court filing indicting an Indian national by name and the involvement of an Indian government agent in a purported botched attempt to assassinate...
UNLF cadres during the surrender ceremony. (Photo via special arrangement.) Imphal/Kohima/New Delhi: The United National Liberation Front, Manipur’s oldest insurgent group, has surrendered after a tripartite agreement between the group, th...
Defence minister Rajnath Singh (2R) with the Army chief, Gen Manoj Pande; Air Force chief, ACM Vikram Ram Chaudhari; and the Navy chief, Admiral Radhakrishnan Hari Kumar. (Photo: MoD)“Well fought Blue, Red is the Winner.” This situa...
Participants at Tawang Marathon 2023Tawang: There couldn’t have been any better inaugural edition of the Tawang Marathon, a mega sporting event jointly organized by the Indian Army and the Arunachal Pradesh State government at Tawang on Sunday....
The India-Myanmar border. (Map not to scale.)Kirstjen Nielsen, former secretary of the United States’ homeland security once said: “People think of border security in very different ways, but to me, it’s very simple: border security...
Rescue workers with heavy equipment at the site of Balasore train disaster. (Photo via Twitter) New Delhi/Balasore/Bhubaneswar: The three services of India's armed forces – Indian Army, Indian Navy, and Indian Air Force – have be...
The Rezang-la War Memorial. (Photo collected by Jai Samota through special arrangement.)“We carved not a line, and we raised not a stone, But we left him alone in his glory.” ~ Charles WolfeAfter the eight-day battle, which...
Assam Rifles personnel evacuating Konyak women from Yairipok, Manipur. (Photo by special arrangement)Imphal/Dimapur/New Delhi: Violence in ethnic strife-hit Manipur took a new turn when suspected militants fired upon a Manipur Police patrol contingen...