Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Saturday landed at Rajouri Army base camp in Jammu & Kashmir to take stock of the security situation in the border districts of Rajouri and Poonch. Read More

At the Shanghai Cooperation Organization foreign ministers’ meeting here, India’s foreign minister, S Jaishankar, launched a scathing attack on his Pakistani counterpart, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, for Islamabad’s continuous support to anti-India terrorism. Read More

The number of Indian Army soldiers killed in Friday’s encounter with militants in Jammu & Kashmir’s Rajouri sector has climbed to five with three more soldiers succumbing to their injuries at the Army Command Hospital in Udhampur. Read More

The Maharashtra anti-terror squad arrested senior Defence Research and Development Organization scientist Pradeep M Kurulkar, on Thursday, for allegedly passing highly sensitive defence-related information to Pakistani agents from the country’s notorious spying agency ISI. Read More

The prime minister, Narendra Modi, will visit the French capital, Paris, on July 14 to attend this year’s Bastille Day parade as the guest of honour.The French president, Emmanuel Macron, invited Modi to the parade as the guest of honour on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the India-France Strategic Partnership. Read More

Two Indian Army soldiers were killed and four, including an officer, was injured while carrying out an intelligence-based anti-militant operation in the Kandi forest area of Jammu & Kashmir’s Rajouri sector. India Sentinels has learned that the fallen soldiers belonged to the Army’s 9 Para SF unit. Read More

The Army and the Assam Rifles have been ordered to step in and shoot at sight as last resort to control mobs in Manipur after the dispute between tribal groups and the majority Meitei community over the latter’s demand for “scheduled tribe” status spiralled into deadly and widespread violence. Read More

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 Sashastra Seema Bal, sources in the defence and security establishment revealed, on Thursday. The exercise took place at Mandala high-altitude area in Arunachal Pradesh. Read More

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 Tech) Pabballa Anil, dead and the two pilots injured. Read More

In a major development, the Narendra Modi-led government moved to abolish Indian Army cantonments across the country after terming creating (and maintaining) them as “archaic colonial practice”. The first cantonment to be abolished is the Yol cantonment in Himachal Pradesh. Many veterans have reacted to it positively and many negatively. Read More