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Defence ministry clears Indian Army’s proposal to procure another 73,000 SIG Sauer assault rifles from US
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...
New Indian Army promotion policy for colonel and above ranks to be implemented from January 1
New Delhi: The military secretary’s office has issued a comprehensive promotion policy that will change the way how Indian Army officers of colonel and above ranks are promoted. The new promotion policy will come into effect from January 1, 202...
In a historic first, woman officer to command Indian Navy warship
An Indian Navy woman officer leading the Navy contingent at a Republic Day parade in New Delhi. (File photo for representation.)New Delhi: In a historic announcement, the Indian Navy chief, Admiral Radhakrishnan Hari Kumar, on Friday said a woman off...
October 7 Hamas raid in Israel: Lessons for India in border guarding
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, Manipur-based insurgent group, surrenders ending 60 years of violence
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...
Mohamed Muizzu, Maldives new pro-China president, orders Indian military out of his atoll nation
Mohamed Muizzu. (Photo: The Maldives President’s Office)New Delhi: The Maldives’ newly elected president, Mohamed Muizzu, who was sworn into office on Friday, officially asked India to pull out all its military personnel stationed in...
Latest Israel-Palestine war jolts world. Can India play peacemaker?
Israel flattened neighbourhoods after neighbourhoods in Gaza through air and artillery strikes in retaliation to Hamas’s surprise attack that saw over 1,200 Israelis dead, so far. (Photo via Twitter)Four days have passed since the sudden rocket...
Rashtriya Rifles battalion commander, major, DSP among 5 killed in Jammu & Kashmir gunbattle
Udhampur: An Indian Army colonel and a major along with a deputy superintendent of police of the Jammu & Kashmir Police were killed in a gunbattle with militants in the Union territory in two separate incidences, on Wednesday. This is considered ...
UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announces $2 billion to Green Climate Fund
Rishi Sunak and Joe Biden at the G20 Summit in DelhiNew Delhi: UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Sunak announced to provide $2 billion to the Green Climate Fund – the biggest single funding commitment the UK has made to help the world tackle cli...
India-Myanmar border guarding needs a fresh approach
The India-Myanmar border. (Map not to scale.)Kirstjen Nielsen, former secretary of the United States’ homeland security once said: “People think of border security in very different ways, but to me, it’s very simple: border security...Results
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