New Delhi: India’s first indigenous aircraft carrier (IAC) Vikrant has commenced sailing on Wednesday for crucial sea trials ahead of its planned induction into the Indian Navy next year.IAC is a leading example of the nation’s quest for ...
New Delhi: Lt Gen Tarun Kumar Chawla will assume the appointment of the Director General of Artillery on Saturday. He takes over the appointment from Lt Gen K Ravi Prasad, who superannuated on July 31 after completing thirty nine years of distinguish...
Shimla: Two Border Roads Organisation (BRO) personnel have lost their lives during rescue and relief operations in flood-hit Himachal Pradesh. BRO lost an engineer and a project personnel during relief and rescue operation in the state. In Laha...
New Delhi: Vice Admiral SN Ghormade, a navigation and direction specialist, on Saturday assumed charge as the new Vice Chief of the Navy.Admiral Ghormade has had extensive operational tenures onboard frontline warships of the Navy that included comma...
Rishi Raj Singh.During a lecture on a topic from Indian mediaeval history, suddenly a crispy voice from the back benches drew the professor’s attention with an indomitable query: “I object, sir, to calling the rulers by their faith. We sh...
Indian troops surrendering at the Namka-chu area. This is part of the series on the 1962 India-China border war that seeks to debunk the myths, misinformation and politics spun around India’s debacle in the North-East Frontier Agency.Gener...
Lucknow: Shimla-based Army Training Command (ARTRAC) Commander Lt Gen Raj Shukla has visited his alma mater Captain Manoj Kumar Pandey UP Sainik School in Lucknow on July 10 and paid floral tribute to the martyrs at the school war memorial.Upon his a...
Shillong: The Passing Out Parade of the 190th Recruit Training Batch of 58 Gorkha Training Centre was held on Saturday at Harish Parade Ground in Happy Valley of Shillong.The Parade marks the culmination of rigorous Recruit training during which youn...
New Delhi: The defence ministry has implemented SPARSH [System for Pension Administration (Raksha)], an integrated system for automation of sanction and disbursement of defence pension.This web-based system processes pension claims and credits pensio...
Udhampur: Northern Command Army Commander Lt Gen Y K Joshi unveiled the ‘Naushera’ gate on Thursday at Udhampur Military Station to honour the valiant soldiers of Northern Command who made the supreme sacrifice in the Battle of Naushera i...