Lt Gen Pushpendra Singh. (Photo: Indian Army) New Delhi: Lieutenant General Pushpendra Singh assumed charge as vice-chief of the Army staff, on Thursday. He brings nearly four decades of Special Forces experience to the Army’s second-highe...
An Indian Air Force MiG-21 Bison. (File photo)New Delhi: The Indian Air Force’s remaining MiG-21 Bison squadrons will be decommissioned by mid-September, defence officials said on Tuesday. This will bring the curtains down on the longest-servin...
The terrorist attack at Pahalgam on April 22 changed everything. Twenty-six innocent tourists, segregated by religion and murdered in cold blood by Pakistan-based terrorists, triggered a chain of events that would fundamentally alter how we understan...
File photo of a Prithvi II missile during its test-firing.New Delhi: India conducted back-to-back tests of two nuclear-capable short-range ballistic missiles on Thursday, the Ministry of Defence said in a release. Although defence officials described...
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...
A digitally enhanced photo of Ulfa-I leader Paresh Baruah.New Delhi/Guwahati/Dimapur: Indian security forces allegedly conducted a massive cross-border drone operation against insurgent camps inside Myanmar on late Saturday and Sunday, targeting mult...
The 14th Dalai Lama. (Photo: The Office of the Dalai Lama, Dharamshala)As Buddhists worldwide celebrated the 90th birthday of the 14th Dalai Lama, Jetsun Jamphel Ngawang Lobsang Yeshe Tenzin Gyatso, on July 6, a familiar yet increasingly urgent dispu...
The 14th Dalai Lama. (Photo via X/@DalaiLama)New Delhi: China has lodged a formal diplomatic protest with India following the prime minister, Narendra Modi, conveying birthday greetings to the 14th Dalai Lama and the attendance of senior Indian minis...
The joint insignia of the Indian armed forces. (File photo)New Delhi: The defence minister, Rajnath Singh, on Tuesday authorized the chief of defence staff and secretary, Department of Military Affairs, to issue “Joint Instructions and Joint Or...
Kirti Vardhan Singh with evacuated students at Delhi airport (Photo: MEA)New Delhi: As the conflict escalates between Tehran and Tel Aviv, India launched Operation Sindhu on Wednesday to evacuate its nationals from conflict-torn Iran, with the first ...