A portrait of Rifleman Jaswant Singh Rawat. During the last phase of the 1962 India-China war, the Indian Army units fighting in the North-East Frontier Agency (Nefa), now Arunachal Pradesh, were struggling with an acute shortage of manpower and...
Security forces patrolling a road in Manipur’s Bishnupur district. (Photo via Facebook) For Manipur, peace has remained elusive since May 3, the day violent clashes between Meiteis and Kukis started. The cycle of violence continues despite...
Manipuri women in Chennai during a vigil calling for peace in their state. (Photo via Facebook)The Manipur ethnic violence, which started on May 3, has claimed over 150 lives and displaced more than fifty thousand people, if not more, so far. Althoug...
Former Indian Army chief Gen MM Naravane (retd) at IIC in Delhi New Delhi: Flagging the Chinese aid to several insurgent groups in northeastern part of the country, former Indian Army chief General Manoj Mukund Naravane (Retd) said that the invo...
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...
Agniveers pose with senior officers after their attestation ceremony at the Jammu & Kashmir Regimental Centre, Srinagar. (Photo by special arrangement.) Srinagar/Nagpur/Prayagraj: The first batch of Agniveer recruits who completed their six-...
Rescued tourists salute the Indian Army and BRO personnel . (Photo: Defence PRO, Guwahati) New Delhi/Guwahati: The Indian Army’s Trishakti Corps and Border Roads Organization have rescued over 3,500 tourists who were stranded in North Sikk...
Air Marshal Ashutosh Dixit on Tejas Trainer-01 at National Flight Test Centre, Bengaluru, on June 15, 2023. (Photo by special arrangement.)New Delhi: The deputy chief of the Indian Air Force, Air Marshal Ashutosh Dixit, visited the National Flight Te...
Gen Manoj Pande. (File photo)New Delhi: To further enhance the defence ties between India and Bangladesh, the Indian Army chief, General Manoj Pande, landed on a two-day visit to Bangladesh, on Monday.During his stay in the country, he will be meetin...
Rajnath Singh in Nigeria (PC: Defence Ministry)New Delhi: The defence minister, Rajnath Singh, has attended the swearing-in ceremony of president-elect of Nigeria Bola Ahmed Tinubu in Abuja on May 29.In addition to senior defence ministry officials, ...