A Gorkha Rifles contingent marching on an Independence Day in New Delhi. (File photo)New Delhi: Nepal’s visiting foreign minister, Shisir Khanal, has said that if India wishes to resume talks on Nepal’s suspension of Gorkha recruitment in...
Gen Anil Chauhan.New Delhi: After more than four decades in uniform, the chief of defence staff, General Anil Chauhan, hung up his boots on Saturday. This brings to a close one of the most consequential tenures in India’s higher defence establi...
An Indian Army tank and a BMP during a drill in Jammu. (File photo)New Delhi: The Indian Army is set to bring its Mechanized Infantry Regiment and Armoured Corps under a single directorate from June 1, reversing a separation that had kept the two com...
Lt Gen Sagat Singh.Today, on July 14, India is commemorating the birth anniversary of one of its most formidable military leaders: Lieutenant General Sagat Singh Rathore, PVSM. A man of unyielding resolve, exceptional operational genius, and quiet di...
Lt Shashank Tiwari. (Photo: Indian Army) Kalimpong: Lieutenant Shashank Tiwari, a 23-year-old Indian Army officer, died while saving a fellow soldier’s life during a routine military operation in the challenging terrain of North Sikkim dis...
Indian and Bangladeshi troops at Tripura’s Agartala-Akhaura border during a joint commemoration of the 53rd anniversary of Vijay Diwas. (Photo: MEA) India’s northeastern states – Assam, Meghalaya, Tripura, and Mizoram – s...
Troops of Indian Army and the US Army at Exercise Tiger Triumph 2025. (Photo: Vizag Defence PRO)Visakhapatnam: In a dynamic demonstration of bilateral military cooperation and joint operational readiness, Indian and the US armed forces concluded...
The Phillora police station in Pakistan’s Sialkot sector after its capture by Indian forces during the 1965 India-Pakistan war. (Photo: Public Domain)“For the Fighting Fifth”In July 1964, after their challenging deployment in Ladakh...
Silhouette of a statue of a soldier at the Walong War Memorial in Arunachal Pradesh’s Anjaw district. (Photo: Wikipedia/Palash Datta)The Battle of Walong is one of the lesser-known yet significant episodes of the 1962 India-China. Fought betwee...
A portrait of Major Ajit Singh, MVC – the hero of 1962 Hot Springs operation. (Photo for India Sentinels collected by Jai Samota via special arrangement) “Let Chinese blood flow at the Hot Springs. We are well prepared, and my men ar...