The Rezang-la War Memorial. (Photo collected by Jai Samota through special arrangement.)“We carved not a line, and we raised not a stone, But we left him alone in his glory.” ~ Charles WolfeAfter the eight-day battle, which...
The NIMAS team at the summit of Mount Purgyal in Himachal Pradesh. (Photo by special arrangement) New Delhi: The defence ministry’s Dirang-based National Institute of Mountaineering and Adventure Sports has launched a one...
The red circles in this map roughly shows the areas where Indian and Chinese troops had skirmishes between 2020 and 2021 in eastern Ladakh. (CIA map via Wikipedia) New Delhi: The Indian Army has rejected China’s demand for a buffer zone i...
The red pin in this Google Earth satellite image shows the Niti pass. The white line is the LAC.New Delhi: China has now started building up pressure on India in the middle sector on the disputed border between the two countries, which is also known ...
Map showing location of Depsang Plains. The red line on the left depicts the line of control (LoC) with Pakistan and the same on the right depicts the line of actual control (LAC) with China. (Map not to scale)New Delhi: China has laid down its terms...
An artillery gun in action during Exercise Buland Bharat. (Photo: Indian Army) New Delhi: The Indian Army and the Indian Air Force recently concluded a monthlong joint combat exercise in the northeast with the Indo-Tibetan Border Police and the ...
An ALH. (Representational photo)Udhampur: An Indian Army Dhruv advanced light helicopter crashed at a remote area in Jammu & Kashmir’s Marwah area in Kishtwar district, on Thursday morning. The accident left an airman, Craftsman (Aviation T...
Rajnath Singh (2L) during talks with Li Shangfu (R). (Photo: Rajnath Singh/Twitter)New Delhi: In talks during the first high-level military visit from China since the start of the Ladakh stand-off in April 2020, the defence minister, Rajnath Singh, c...
Officials from the Indian Army and Tezpur University during the signing of the MoU. (Photo: Defence PRO, Tezpur)Tezpur: The Indian Army and the Tezpur University signed a memorandum of understanding for training Army personnel in Chinese language, on...
Indian tanks in Ladakh. (Representational photo)New Delhi: The “Zorawar” lightweight tank for mountain warfare, which the defence ministry’s Defence Acquisition Council approved as a necessity for the Indian Army in December as ...