India observed the 76th Army Day, on January 15. The main Army Day parade this year was held in Lucknow for the first time. It was held under the aegis of the Central Army Command, also known as Surya Command, which has its headquarters in the city. Read More

The Indian Army chief, General Manoj Pande, described the situation in the northern borders as “stable but sensitive” while the situation in the India-Myanmar border in Manipur as “concerning”. Read More

Brigadier Amar Jit Singh Behl(retired), one of the Indian Army’s finest soldiers, died after being ill for some time at the Army Command Hospital in Chandimandir Cantonment, on Tuesday. His last rites took place on Wednesday. Read More

India and the United Arab Emirates started their first-ever joint military exercise “Desert Cyclone”. The two-week exercise is taking place at the Mahajan Field Firing Range in Rajasthan. Read More

Lieutenant General Ram Chandra Tiwari officially became the commander of the Indian Army’s Eastern Command at its iconic headquarters in Fort William, Kolkata, on Monday. He succeeded Lieutenant General Rana Pratap Kalita, who superannuated on Saturday. Read More

A memorial erected by Indian soldiers a few years ago on the spot where Major Shaitan Singh, one of the nation’s most celebrated war heroes, fell fighting the Chinese in the 1962 war’s Battle of Rezang-la, has been razed to create a buffer zone between India and China as part of the deal to de-escalate tensions along the LAC. Read More

The death toll in militant ambush on an Indian Army convoy in near Poonch has reached five, reports say. Also, three civilian locals allegedly picked by the Army for questioning were found dead under suspicious circumstances. Read More

In yet another militant ambush on Indian Army vehicles in Jammu & Kashmir’s Poonch-Rajouri sector, four soldiers were killed in action. Three other soldiers have also been injured in the attack. Read More

In what has come as a surprise to many, former chief of Army staff General Manoj Mukund Naravane said neither of the three services were consulted before the government rolled out the Agnipath recruitment scheme. The ex-COAS also discusses the difficult time during the 2020 Galwan valley clash Read More

Lieutenant General Ram Chandra Tiwari has been appointed the next general officer commanding in chief of the key Eastern Army Command. He will replace the incumbent Eastern Army GOC-in-C Lieutenant General Rana Pratap Kalita, who retires on December 31. Read More