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 ...
Women in Imphal hold a candlelight vigil to end the ethnic violence that has gripped the state since early May. (Photo: Twitter)Manipur is a landlocked state that shares a 398-kilometre international border with Myanmar. The international border is h...
Photo for representation.New Delhi: In one of the most conspicuous moves towards theaterization of the country’s armed forces, the government has given the go-ahead for implementing a common evaluation process for promotion and posting of senio...
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...
A convoy of trucks and a JCB moving towards Manipur valley. (Photo by special arrangement)Imphal: Manipur has witnessed a significant reduction in the ethnic violence between the Meitei people and other tribal groups in the state, mainly the Kuki peo...
Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru with troops at a forward position during the 1962 India-China war.Dissecting Claude Arpi’s 1962 India-China war claimsDuring my studies on the hitherto obscure aspects of the 1962 India-China war, particularly wi...
The mangled remains of the bus carrying CRPF personnel that was attacked by a suicide bomber on the Jammu-Srinagar highway, on February 14, 2019. (File photo)Good intelligence is a must for the success of all operations, but it has special significan...
An artillery gun in action during Exercise Buland Bharat. (Photo: Indian Army) New Delhi: The Indian Army and the Indian Air Force recently concluded a monthlong joint combat exercise in the northeast with the Indo-Tibetan Border Police and the ...
Indian nationals being evacuated from Sudan in an Indian Air Force aircraft. (Photo: IAF)New Delhi/Bengaluru: India has evacuated over 2,300 nationals and some others from foreign countries from the civil war-hit Sudan, as of Sunday. India’s ev...
Assam Rifles soldiers pose with a suspected smuggler and seized meth tablets near Aizawl. (Photo: Assam Rifles)Aizawl/Guwahati: The Assam Rifles busted a series of high-stake smuggling attempts in the last one week in Mizoram’s Champhai distric...