An Indian Air Force B-24 Liberator. This is the story of the Indian Air Force’s first heavy bomber and the indigenous “jugaad” (ingenuity) that helped the service develop this capability, as told by the force itself on social m...
New Delhi: Indian Army officer Captain Shiva Chouhan created history by becoming the first Indian Army woman officer to be operationally posted to the Kumar Post, situated at an altitude of 15,632 feet in the Siachen Glacier – the world’s...
Itanagar: An expedition of the team of the National Institute of Mountaineering and Adventure Sports (NIMAS) has become the first of its kind expedition to not just travel all the seven states of India’s northeast (NE) but has set the record of...
Representative image.On May 9, 2022, a rocket-propelled grenade (RPG) was fired at the Punjab Police intelligence headquarters in Mohali. The attack followed the arrest of four suspected terrorists at Karnal in Haryana with improvised explosive devic...
Lt Yog Raj Palta. This is the story of Lieutenant Yog Raj Palta, a young and adventurous Indian Army officer who loved his Royal Enfield bike and Panama cigarettes – and immortalized himself in the 1962 India-China war.Yog Raj Palta was bo...
Veterans at New Delhi’s Jantar Mantar demanding for implementation of one rank, one pension. (File photo)New Delhi: The Union Cabinet headed by the prime minister, Narendra Modi, has approved the revision of pension armed forces’ pensione...
Indian and Chinese troops facing each other across a rivulet near the LAC in the Tawang sector. (Photo for representation)The recent clash at the line of actual control in Arunachal Pradesh’s Yangtse plateau near Tawang is the continuation of a...
Guizhou WZ-7 Soaring Dragon drone at Airshow China Zhuhai 2022. (Creative Commons photo)New Delhi: China is reported to have carried out a big drill involving its hi-tech drones inside their side of the line of actual control near Arunachal Pradesh. ...
Lt Gen Rana Pratap Kalita.Kolkata: Eastern Army Command general officer commanding in chief Lieutenant General Rana Pratap Kalita said border areas in the northern frontier are stable and the Indian Army is firmly in control. According to an ET repor...
Indian and Nepalese troops during an earlier edition of Surya Kiran. (File photo.)New Delhi: Soldiers from the Indian and the Nepalese armies will conduct their annual “Surya Kiran” joint military exercise. This year’s edition, &ldq...