President Droupadi Murmu flags off PBG soldierathon (Photo: Rastrapati Bhawan) New Delhi: The president, Droupadi Murmu, on Sunday flagged off the first President’s Bodyguard (PBG) Soldierathon at the forecourt of Rashtrapati Bhavan, launc...
— By Aayushi Pandey and Dr Aparaajita PandeyA democracy is not judged by how it behaves when all is calm. Its real character shows when citizens take to the streets to question those who govern them. Elections exist precisely to channel th...
Gen Dhiraj Seth saluting the casket holding the body of Gen VN Sharma. (Viral photo via X)New Delhi: General Vishwa Nath Sharma (R), PVSM, AVSM, the 14th chief of the Indian Army staff, was cremated with full military honours at the Brar Square crema...
General Vishwa Nath Sharma – June 4, 1930–July 31, 2026 (India Sentinels rendition of an old official photo.)New Delhi: General Vishwa Nath Sharma, the first president’s commissioned officer to rise to command of the Indian Army, ha...
Major General Jitendra Singh. Chapra: In a heartfelt tribute to the men and women who served the nation, the Indian Army organised a special felicitation ceremony in Chapra district to honour ex-servicemen, veterans and Veer Naris (widows of sol...
— By Dr Baishali SarkarEvery year, on the full moon of Āṣāḍha, Buddhists across the world pause to remember one of their most sacred days. It marks the Buddha's first sermon, the Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta, given...
New Delhi: A parliamentary panel has flagged a near two-decade delay in the procurement and induction of the indigenously built Dhanush artillery gun, holding that the lag left the Army making do with ageing, less capable equipment at a time when the...
Rajnath Singh at Kargil War Memorial. (Photo: Ministry of Defence)Dras: Operation Sindoor stands as evidence that India can meet Pakistan’s provocations with a force “far beyond its imagination,” the defence minister, Rajnath Singh,...
Assistant Commandant Sonia Sehrawat. (Photo: X) New Delhi: An Instagram story posted by a serving paramilitary officer has become the unlikely flashpoint of a national argument over political neutrality in India’s security forces. The...
Air Vice Marshal Cecil Vivian Parker.On a December morning in 1971, four Hawker Hunters of the Indian Air Force’s 20 Squadron thundered 120 kilometres into Pakistani territory to strike an airbase most commanders would have judged beyond safe r...