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...
Rear Adm Sanjay Sadhu hands over the baton to Rear Admiral R Vijay SekharVisakhapatnam: Senior Indian Navy officer Rear Admiral R Vijay Sekhar took over as the admiral superintendent of the Vizag naval dockyard here from Rear Admiral Sanjay Sadhu, on...
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...
New Delhi: The joint exercise between Indian Army and Mongolian Army named “Nomadic Elephant” culminated on Saturday at Ulaanbaatar in Mongolia. The exercise was successful in sharing best practices and paving the way for enhanced synergy...
Captain Anshuman Singh. (Photo by special arrangement.)New Delhi: Captain Anshuman Singh, an Indian Army medical officer, was killed, three soldiers, including a lieutenant colonel, and three porters were injured in a fire incident at the Siachen gla...
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 ...
Indian Army soldiers rehearsing in New Delhi before leaving for Paris to take part in France’s Bastille Day parade. (Photo by special arrangement.) New Delhi: An Indian contingent comprising 269 personnel from the triservices left for Pari...
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...
Indian Army troops in Manipur. (Photo via Facebook)New Delhi/Kohima: A mob of over 1,200 women interrupted an Indian Army operation against militants in Manipur’s Kamjong district and freed 12 militants belonging to the banned terrorist group K...
New Delhi: India and the United States inched closer to an agreement where an US company will set up a base in India to manufacture jet engines together with an Indian company. Moving towards this during Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s first sta...