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Who was General Zorawar Singh? The ‘Lion of Ladakh’ who conquered the Himalayas
General Zorawar Singh Kahluria was one of the greatest military commanders in 19th-century India. Born in 1786 in the small hill kingdom of Kahlur in present-day Himachal Pradesh, he came from a Rajput family of the Kahluria clan – a lineage wi...
Colonel Sonam Wangchuk, ‘Lion of Ladakh’ who won India’s first Kargil victory, dies at 61
Colonel Sonam Wangchuk, MVC (R) (January 27, 1964–April 10, 2026) New Delhi: Colonel Sonam Wangchuk, MVC (retired), the decorated Kargil war veteran who led the Indian Army’s first successful offensive operation of the 1999 conflict,...
Debunking the myth of IPS superiority over CAPF cadres
CRPF personnel deployed in an anti-Naxalite operation in Chhattisgarh. (File photo) Let me say this plainly, and without apology: the claim that officers of the Indian Police Service are inherently superior to cadre officers of the central armed...
DAC clears ₹2.38 lakh crore in military procurement proposals, sets single-year record
The Ministry of Defence, South Block, New Delhi. (File photo)New Delhi: The Defence Acquisition Council (DAC) on Thursday approved a fresh round of procurement proposals worth approximately ₹2.38 lakh crore, pushing cumulative acceptances of ne...
‘Project Himank’: Border Road Organisation launches snow-clearance operation on Leh-Manali highway
BRO’s snow-clearance operation in Leh (Photo: BRO)Leh: The Border Roads Organisation’s Project Himank has started snow-clearance operations on National Highway-3, the strategic Leh-Manali corridor via Sarchu, as part of the annual effort ...
When Leadership Lacks Grounding: The real risk in the CAPF-IPS debate
A BSF solder keeping watch over the other side of the international border with Pakistan, somewhere in the western section. (File photo for representation) Let me be direct about something that tends to get buried under bureaucratic language and...
Petrodollar’s last rites, yuan’s quiet coronation, and India’s self-inflicted wounds
Illustration for representation. (© India Sentinels 2026–27)In this piece, this author wouldn’t discuss how the Israel & US-Iran war is going, as he has already done so in his last two op-eds here with a very high degree of accur...
Stagnant Ranks, Broken Morale: The cost of CAPF’s skewed HR policies
CRPF commandos in an anti-Naxalite operations camp in Chhattisgarh. (Photo for representation)A slow-burning crisis is consuming India’s central armed police forces (CAPFs) from within. Not a crisis of courage – the jawans and officers of...
Chanakya’s Warning and India’s Shame: How the state fails its CAPFs
Two commandos of the CRPF’s elite CoBRA special operations unit during jungle-warfare training. (Photo for representation.)“The day the soldier has to demand his dues will be a sad day for Magadha, for then, on that day, you will have los...
Armed Forces Medical Services women officers secure 2nd place at Pinkathon Ultra Marathon in Delhi
Col Shivani Sangwan during Pinkathon Ultra in Delhi (Photo: Special Arrangements)New Delhi: A team of four women officers from Armed Forces Medical Services secured the second position at the inaugural edition of the Pinkathon Ultra, India’s pr...Results
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