General Sundararajan Padmanabhan (December 13, 1940 – August 19, 2024)Chennai: General Sundararajan Padmanabhan, the 20th chief of the Indian Army, passed away on Monday. He was 83. Gen Padmanabhan, affectionately known as “Paddy” w...
File photo of a counterinsurgency operation in J&K for representation.Udhampur: Security forces are currently engaged in three counterinsurgency operations across Jammu & Kashmir, officials said on Monday. These operations, which have been on...
The Katchatheevu island, as shown by the red pin. (Google Earth image)New Delhi: A recent Right to Information query by the Tamil Nadu Bharatiya Janata Party president, K Annamalai, has rekindled a decades-old issue of the transfer of Katchatheevu (a...
A Tejas LCA. (File photo for representation.)Pokhran: An Indian Air Force Tejas light combat aircraft crashed near Jaisalmer, Rajasthan, on Tuesday. This marks the first-ever crash of the Tejas LCA – the pride of India’s domestic defence-...
Rajnath Singh (L) with Grant Shapps before their bilateral meeting in London. (Photo: X/@rajnathsingh)New Delhi: The defence minister, Rajnath Singh, held a bilateral meeting with his British counterpart, Grant Shapps, in London, on Tuesday. In a new...
Rajnath Singh. (File photo)New Delhi: The defence minister, Rajnath Singh, will leave on a two-day visit to the United Kingdom on Monday, the defence ministry said in a release on Sunday. This will be the first visit by an Indian defence minister to ...
The NIMAS Har Shikhar Tiranga team at Mount Jongsong, Sikkim. (Photo by special arrangement.)New Delhi: In a remarkable feat and first-of-its-kind expedition, the Dirang-based National Institute of Mountaineering and Adventure Sports (NIMAS) tea...
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...
Troops of Indian and British Army Troops of the Indian Army have been in the United Kingdom to participate in joint Indian and British army military training, Exercise Ajeya Warrior 2023, at Salisbury Plains in England.The wargame has seen...
Madagascar: As part of the lang range training deployment, the ships of the First Training Squadron (1TS) of the Indian Navy, INS Tir and ICGS Sarathi visited Port Antsiranana, Madagascar from March 20 - 23.The ships were received by Officers from Ma...