Representative image.On May 9, 2022, a rocket-propelled grenade (RPG) was fired at the Punjab Police intelligence headquarters in Mohali. The attack followed the arrest of four suspected terrorists at Karnal in Haryana with improvised explosive devic...
Lt Yog Raj Palta. This is the story of Lieutenant Yog Raj Palta, a young and adventurous Indian Army officer who loved his Royal Enfield bike and Panama cigarettes – and immortalized himself in the 1962 India-China war.Yog Raj Palta was bo...
PHK Singh (R) during his inspection trip at the Se-la tunnel. (Photo: Defence PRO - Tezpur)Tezpur: The additional director general of Border Roads Organization (East), PKH Singh, inspected the progress made in the construction of the strategic Se-la ...
Indian tanks in Ladakh. (Representational photo)New Delhi: The Defence Acquisition Council, headed by the defence minister, Rajnath Singh, has given its approval for acceptance of necessity (AoN) to acquire 24 different types of weapons, weapon syste...
Commodore Rakesh Anand (retired), head of Crown Group Defence’s Marine Division. (Crown Group Defence photo)Commodore Rakesh Anand (retired), head of Crown Group Defence’s Marine Division, in this interview with Palak Sharma of ...
Veterans at New Delhi’s Jantar Mantar demanding for implementation of one rank, one pension. (File photo)The genuine demand of the veterans of the armed forces seeking one rank, one pension (OROP) has been hanging fire for a very long time. The...
A captured Pakistani tank on display at Longewala near where the battle took place.The Indian Army celebrated “Parakram Diwas” on December 5 to commemorate the 51st anniversary of its victory over Pakistan in the Battle of Longewala durin...
Photo for representation.New Delhi: Hindustan Aeronautics Limited and Bharat Electronics Limited, India’s two defence public sector undertakings, have emerged in the list of top 100 global suppliers of arms. Together, they totalled a sales arms...
Admiral Radhakrishnan Hari Kumar during an interaction with reporters in New Delhi, on December 3, 2022. (Photo: Indian Navy)New Delhi: The Indian Navy has almost given up the idea of having a second indigenous aircraft carrier (IAC-2). The IAC-2 was...
Rajnath Singh (File Pic)New Delhi: Defence Minister Rajnath Singh will embark on a two-day visit to Cambodia to attend ASEAN Defence Ministers Plus and India-ASEAN Defence Ministers meetings in Cambodia on November 22, at the invitation of Deputy Pri...