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Armour Day: Steel, spirit and the making of India’s Armoured Corps
Indian Army soldiers on tanks during a Army Day parade in New Delhi. (File photo)Every year on May 1, the Indian Army observes Armour Day – a commemoration of its Armoured Corps that is equal parts history, pride, and resolve. The date marks th...
The 2569th birth anniversary of the Buddha and the significance of the holy relic exposition in Ladakh
Holy Relics of Tathagata Buddha (Photo: IBC) By Dr. Portia B. Conrad Every year, on the full moon of Vaishakha, Buddhists across the world stop. Lamps are lit. Monasteries fill with chanting. This year the day carries something extra - the ...
Who was General Zorawar Singh? The ‘Lion of Ladakh’ who conquered the Himalayas
General Zorawar Singh Kahluria was one of the greatest military commanders in 19th-century India. Born in 1786 in the small hill kingdom of Kahlur in present-day Himachal Pradesh, he came from a Rajput family of the Kahluria clan – a lineage wi...
Colonel Sonam Wangchuk, ‘Lion of Ladakh’ who won India’s first Kargil victory, dies at 61
Colonel Sonam Wangchuk, MVC (R) (January 27, 1964–April 10, 2026) New Delhi: Colonel Sonam Wangchuk, MVC (retired), the decorated Kargil war veteran who led the Indian Army’s first successful offensive operation of the 1999 conflict,...
Indian Army signs first capital procurement deal through Government e-Marketplace
New Delhi: The Indian Army has, for the first time, executed a capital procurement contract through Government e-Marketplace (GeM), a digital public procurement platform operated by the Union commerce and industry ministry. The contract, signed with ...
‘Project Himank’: Border Road Organisation launches snow-clearance operation on Leh-Manali highway
BRO’s snow-clearance operation in Leh (Photo: BRO)Leh: The Border Roads Organisation’s Project Himank has started snow-clearance operations on National Highway-3, the strategic Leh-Manali corridor via Sarchu, as part of the annual effort ...
Indian Army, Navy launch drone-procurement drives to plug air-defence gaps
A unit of the Indian Army’s Akashteer air-defence system. (File photo for representation.)New Delhi: The Indian Army and the Indian Navy have separately issued requests for information on drone systems – one to acquire high-speed aerial t...
Spurred by lessons from Operation Sindoor, India plans its first dedicated drone airbase at Meerut
DRDO’s Ghatak stealth UAV. (Creative Commons photo for representation.)New Delhi: India is building its first runway designed exclusively for drones and remotely piloted aircraft (RPA) at Meerut in Uttar Pradesh. This is seen as a move that ref...
Indian Army seeks drone-catching systems as low-signature aerial threats multiply
An Asisguard Songar drone in flight. Pakistan used this model of drones against India during Op Sindoor.New Delhi: The Ministry of Defence has issued a request for information (RFI) for a dedicated drone-catcher system for the Indian Army, as the cou...
sā Ladakh Biennale 2026 sets vision for the world’s highest regenerative art biennale Ladakh
New Delhi: Conceived as a non-white cube biennale, the sā Ladakh Biennale unfolds at 3600m of altitude across Ladakh’s lived landscapes under the theme ‘Signals from Another Star’, placing regeneration, learning, and ethical en...Results
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