In what has come as a surprise to many, former chief of Army staff General Manoj Mukund Naravane said neither of the three services were consulted before the government rolled out the Agnipath recruitment scheme. The ex-COAS also discusses the difficult time during the 2020 Galwan valley clash Read More

This comes at a time when the Houthi rebels in Yemen banned on all Israel-linked ships sailing in the Red Sea and Somali pirates hijacked a cargo ship near the Gulf of Aden. Read More

Lieutenant General Ram Chandra Tiwari has been appointed the next general officer commanding in chief of the key Eastern Army Command. He will replace the incumbent Eastern Army GOC-in-C Lieutenant General Rana Pratap Kalita, who retires on December 31. Read More

India’s air-defence capabilities achieved a groundbreaking feat, in which a single Akash missile system successfully engaged four unmanned aerial targets simultaneously. The drill in which the feat was during Exercise Astrashakti 2023, conducted earlier this month, the DRDO said. Read More

The chief of Army staff, General Manoj Pande, delivered a keynote address at the Indian Institute of Management, Nagpur, on Saturday. In his broad speech, he painted a compelling picture of how national security and economic progress walk hand-in-hand in shaping a nation’s rise. Read More

Oman’s Sultan Haitham bin Tariq, who arrived in the national capital on a three-day visit to India, was accorded a warm reception at the Rashtrapati Bhavan by President Droupadi Murmu. Later, Sultan Haitham held talks with Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Read More

Five Indian-American members of the United States Congress issued a joint statement after being briefed by the Biden administration with classified information on an Indian citizen’s involvement in an alleged assassination plot of a Canadian-American Khalistani activist. Read More

The Indian Navy said its “mission deployed” platforms responded to a distress call sent by a Malta-flagged vessel, MV Ruen, in the Arabian Sea. The Navy, suspecting a piracy attempt, said it diverted a maritime patrol aircraft and a warship on anti-piracy patrol in the region towards the ship. Read More

The Defence Research and Development Organization has successfully conducted a test-flight of an indigenously built high-speed and stealth autonomous flying-wing technology demonstrator. Read More

Indian Navy’s corvette INS Kadmatt INS Kadmatt, which is currently on a long-range operational deployment in the West Philippine Sea, undertook a maritime partnership exercise with BRP Ramon Alcaraz of the Philippine Navy in the disputed South China Sea. Read More