Mohamed Muizzu, Maldives new pro-China president, orders Indian military out of his atoll nation

Mohamed Muizzu. (Photo: The Maldives President’s Office)New Delhi: The Maldives’ newly elected president, Mohamed Muizzu, who was sworn into office on Friday, officially asked India to pull out all its military personnel stationed in...

Indian Navy’s first destroyer INS Rajput decommissioned

Vizag: The first destroyer of Indian Navy - INS Rajput was decommissioned at Naval Dockyard in Visakhapatnam after serving the nation for 41 glorious years on Friday.The ship was decommissioned in a solemn and low key event due to the ongoing COVID P...

Indian Navys’ first destroyer INS Rajput to retire on May 21

Vizag: On May 21st, a glorious era will come to an end with the decommissioning of the Indian Navy’s first destroyer - INS Rajput.INS Rajput, the lead ship of the Kashin-class destroyers built by the erstwhile USSR was commissioned on May 4, 19...

Sapper’s Day Out: An untold tale of casual heroism of a combat engineer in 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War

As an otherwise dull and drab November rolls on in 2020 and the memories of India’s latest victim of anti-personnel mine, SFF Commando Nyima Tenzin, fades away, let us take our readers back to another November, 49 years ago – and another ...

Naval diplomacy: Navy’s often-missed key role

The Indian Navy is the principal manifestation of India’s maritime influence in the Indian Ocean Region (IOR). In the last few months, since the Covid-19 pandemic hit the globe, the operations IOR have seen an expansion with Indian naval ships ...

Where Paras Dare: The untold story of Operation Cactus

Commandos from Indian Parachute Regiment during a Republic Day parade. Not so long ago, we, as Indians, were sure about our military dominance in South Asia. We were proud – and also cocky to an extent – about our status as the &ldqu...