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...
Like all three services of the Indian armed forces, the Indian Navy is also facing an acute shortage of sailor and officers. (Photo for representation.)New Delhi: The Indian Navy has been grappling with shortage of personnel for a while now. However,...
PM Narendra Modi during his Navy Day speech at Malvan, Sindhudurg.Malvan (Sindhudurg, Maharashtra): The prime minister, Narendra Modi, announced that ranks of the Indian Navy will be renamed to junk “slave mentality” and bring them in ali...
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...
Flag of the US justice department. (Photo credit: US DoJ)New Delhi: In an indictment, made public on Wednesday, United States federal prosecutors have accused an Indian government agent of directing a foiled assassination of an American citizen on US...
Hamas fighters in Gaza. (File photo)The Hamas cross-border attack on Israel, on October 7, 2023, and successful infiltration by breaching the border wall between Gaza and Israel brings into focus the perils of the routine paradigm of border guarding....
UNLF cadres during the surrender ceremony. (Photo via special arrangement.) Imphal/Kohima/New Delhi: The United National Liberation Front, Manipur’s oldest insurgent group, has surrendered after a tripartite agreement between the group, th...