DRDO successfully test-fires very short-range man-portable air-defence missile, Eastern Army ends annual field firing of anti-tank guided missiles

A VSHORADS being test-fired at the Integrated Test Range, Chandipur, Odisha. (Photo: Defence ministry) New Delhi: India has achieved a significant milestone in its defence capabilities with the successful testing of its indigenous very short-ran...

Sudden snowfall in east Sikkim: Indian Army’s XXXIII Corps rescues over 500 stranded tourists

Soldiers of the XXXIII Corps rescuing trapped tourists in Nathu-la. (Photo via special arrangement.)Siliguri: More than 500 tourists were stranded in their vehicles at Nathu-la, a mountain pass in east Sikkim, due to heavy snowfall on Wednesday. The ...

1962 India-China war: How scholars misled Indians – a case study

Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru with troops at a forward position during the 1962 India-China war.Dissecting Claude Arpi’s 1962 India-China war claimsDuring my studies on the hitherto obscure aspects of the 1962 India-China war, particularly wi...

1962 India-China War – 1: The reality of a military defeat

Indian troops surrendering at the Namka-chu area. This is part of the series on the 1962 India-China border war that seeks to debunk the myths, misinformation and politics spun around India’s debacle in the North-East Frontier Agency.Gener...

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 ...