A screengrab from a video clip shows a mob burning down houses in a village in Churachandpur district. (Via Twitter) Imphal/Guwahati/New Delhi: The death toll in the ethnic clashes between Manipur’s Meitei people and tribesmen has climbed ...
Group Captain Shaliza Dhami. (Photo: Indian Air Force)New Delhi: The Indian Air Force has selected Group Captain Shaliza Dhami to take over command of a frontline combat unit in the western sector. This is the first time that a woman IAF officer has ...
Amritpal Singh, a separatist and leader of “Waris Punjab De”. (Photo: Twitter)What happened in Punjab’s Ajnala on February 23 was a total capitulation of state police before radicals who stormed the city’s police station, forc...
Army contingents marching during Republic Day parade in New Delhi. (Representational photo)The 2014 general election was unique in many ways. The world, perhaps for the first time, witnessed expenditure on a poll campaign on such a massive scale, esp...
New Delhi: A two-judge division bench of the Delhi high court comprising Justice Suresh Kumar Kait and Justice Neena Bansal Krishna directed the Union government to grant the benefits of the old pension scheme under the Central Civil Services Pension...
An unstable house with cracks in Joshimath marked with an “X” as a warning for residents to leave it immediately. (Photo via Twitter)New Delhi: The chief of the Indian Army, General Manoj Pande, said some troops deployed in Uttarakhand&rs...
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...
Veterans at New Delhi’s Jantar Mantar demanding for implementation of one rank, one pension. (File photo)The genuine demand of the veterans of the armed forces seeking one rank, one pension (OROP) has been hanging fire for a very long time. The...
Photo for representation.New Delhi: For the first time, six women Army officers have cracked the Defence Services Staff Course (DSSC) and Defence Services Technical Staff Course (DSTSC) examination.The examination is held every year in September...
File photo of veterans protesting against the non-implementation of OROP, as it was originally defined.“One rank, one pension” or OROP has been a long and outstanding demand of the veterans of India’s three services – Arm...