INS Kolkata during Malabar 2000 exercise. (Photo: Public domain/US Navy)New Delhi: India has deployed two of its most advanced guided-missile destroyers – INS Kolkata and INS Kochi – off the Somali coast near the Gulf of Aden in northern ...
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...
Vice Admiral Sandeep Naithani (C) along with other senior naval officers on board INS Tarmugli during the warship’s recommissioning ceremony. (Photo: Indian Navy)Visakhapatnam/New Delhi: The Indian Navy formally recommissioned INS Tarmugli, a r...
An Indian Army soldier standing guard at the India Gate in New Delhi with a SIG 716 assault rifle. (India Sentinels photo.)New Delhi: The defence ministry’s Defence Acquisition Council has given the go-ahead to the Indian Army to procure anothe...
Capt Fatima Wasim. (Screenshot of Indian Army video.)New Delhi: Indian Army officer Captain Fatima Wasim became the third woman to be posted in Siachen Glacier. She is also the second woman medical officer to be posted at the world’s highest ba...
Captain Geetika Koul (centre-front) flashing a V sign along with other soldiers at the Siachen base camp. (Photo: Indian Army)New Delhi: Captain Geetika Koul from the Snow Leopard Brigade has become the second woman officer and the first woman doctor...
The burning wreckage of the Pilatus PC-7 Mk II trainer aircraft that crashed. (Photo via X/@nabilajamal_)New Delhi: Two Indian Air Force pilots – an instructor and a trainee – were killed when the Pilatus PC-7 Mk II trainer aircraft they ...
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...
An Indian advanced towed-gun system during trials. (Photo: DRDO) New Delhi: The defence minister, Rajnath Singh-headed Defence Acquisition Council (DAC) gave the acceptance of necessity (AoN) for procurement of defence platforms, including LCA T...