Two BSF troopers manning a mortar position near the international border in Jammu. (File photo)A recent scroll through X (formerly Twitter) left me profoundly troubled. Post after post revealed a disturbing ignorance about one of India’s most c...
Akash Rao Girepunje.Raipur: An additional superintendent of Chhattisgarh Police, Akash Rao Girepunje, was killed and two other officers were injured in a Maoist IED (improvised explosive device) attack in Sukma district, on Monday. This came as a sho...
Indian Army personnel presenting a memento to Col Virender Thapar (R) and his wife, parents of Kargil hero Capt Vijayant Thapar, in Noida. (Photo: Indian Army)New Delhi: The Indian Army has initiated a first-of-its-kind outreach programme to honour t...
Air Chief Marshal Amar Preet Singh. (Photo: X/@FollowCII)New Delhi: In an extraordinary public criticism of India’s defence-manufacturing ecosystem, Air Chief Marshal Amar Preet Singh has delivered his most scathing assessment yet of persistent...
Armoured Vehicles Nigam Limited has accomplished 100% indigenization of MBT Arjun engines. (File photo)New Delhi: The defence minister, Rajnath Singh, has approved Miniratna “Category I” status for three defence public sector undertakings...
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...
The Golden Temple.New Delhi: A major controversy has erupted in the country following contradictory statements about whether air-defence systems were deployed at the sacred Golden Temple in Amritsar during the recent Operation Sindoor hostilities wit...
The ship while it was being built. (Photo: Indian Navy)New Delhi: On the shores of Karwar, where the rhythm of the sea speaks of epochs gone by, the Indian Navy is poised to welcome a vessel unlike any other in its modern arsenal – a ship stitc...
Border Security Force soldiers firing a mortar somewhere in the western front. (Photo: X/@BSF_Rajasthan)The Border Security Force (BSF), India’s first line of defence, shoulders the responsibility of guarding approximately 190 kilometres of int...