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Lieutenant General Vikas Lakhera takes charge as director general of Assam Rifles
Lt Gen Vikas Lakhera. (Photo: Assam Rifles)Shillong/New Delhi: Lieutenant General Vikas Lakhera, AVSM, SM, has officially assumed the role of the 22nd director general of the Assam Rifles – the oldest paramilitary force in India, often referred...
Lt Gen Sadhna Saxena Nair makes history as first woman director general of Indian Army’s medical services
Lt Gen Sadhana Saxena Nair. (Photo: Indian Army)New Delhi: Lieutenant General Sadhana Saxena Nair, VSM, became the first woman to assume the pivotal role of director general of the Indian Army’s medical services and will command the Army Medica...
Kerala’s Wayanad grapples with landslides devastation as Indian Army, Navy, Air Force intensify search-and-rescue operations; death toll mount to 164, around 200 still missing
Incessant rains triggered flooding in the hilly district, which caused massive landslides resulting into mudslides that buried hundreds of houses and people. (Photo via X)Kochi/New Delhi: Kerala’s hilly district of Wayanad continues to grapple ...
General Upendra Dwivedi assumes command as Indian Army’s 30th chief
Gen Manoj Pande (L) passing the baton of the Army chief to Gen Upendra Dwivedi. (Photo: Indian Army) New Delhi: General Upendra Dwivedi has officially taken the reins as the 30th chief of the Indian Army. The change of command ceremony, held at ...
Admiral Dinesh Kumar Tripathi assumes command of Indian Navy as its 26th chief
Admiral Radhakrishnan Hari Kumar (L) handing over the Navy chief’s baton to Admiral Dinesh Kumar Tripathi. (Photo via special arrangement.) New Delhi: Admiral Dinesh Kumar Tripathi assumed command as the 26th chief of the Indian Navy, on T...
Republic Day 2024: President Droupadi Murmu approves gallantry awards to service personnel, Captain Anshuman Singh gets Kirti Chakra posthumously
Captain Anshuman Singh, who was killed while trying to save his comrades during a fire incident in Siachen, received the Kirti Chakra (Posthumous).New Delhi: On the eve of the 75th Republic Day, the president and supreme commander of the armed forces...
Know about Air Marshal PK Barbora – the Indian Air Force officer who reactivated DBO airstrip in 2008
Air Marshal Pranab Kumar Barbora (December 10, 1950–October 30, 2023)Shillong: Former Indian Air Force vice-chief Air Marshal Pranab Kumar Barbora (retd) passed away on Monday after illness at the age of 72 years in Delhi. The officer was known...
Vice Admiral Atul Anand takes over as additional secretary of department of military affairs
Vice Admiral Atul Anand. (Photo: Indian Navy)New Delhi: Indian Navy’s Vice Admiral Atul Anand assumed charge of the additional secretary in the department of military affairs. Indian Army’s Lieutenant General Anil Puri held the post previ...
‘We Stared in the Eyes of Death’: The 1962 operations in Chushul
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...
‘Har Shikhar Tiranga’: NIMAS launches unique expedition to hoist tricolour at highest point of all states
The NIMAS team at the summit of Mount Purgyal in Himachal Pradesh. (Photo by special arrangement) New Delhi: The defence ministry’s Dirang-based National Institute of Mountaineering and Adventure Sports has launched a one...Results
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