CRPF jawans in an anti-Maoist operation in West Bengal.The Indian Express carried an op-ed by Mutha Ashok Jain, on September 9, titled “Practice of reserving cadre posts for certain services is exclusionary, must be reconsidered” made for...
An Indian village right on the India-Tibet LAC in Uttarakhand. The transgression by the China’s People’s Liberation Army soldiers in Barahoti, Uttarakhand on August 21 raised an alarm in the Indian media a few days ago. While such tr...
New Delhi: Defence Minister Rajnath Singh has called for proactive synergy among the Armed Forces in future military strategies and responses to safeguard the interests of the nation.He was addressing the graduates of 59th National Defence Colle...
Ashok Dohare.Finally, August 31, 2021, has arrived, but nothing seemed unusual to Ashok Dohare, my batchmate in IPS, except for the fact that it is the time for him to hang up his brown Oxford shoes on the last day of his lengthy khaki career. Howeve...
Chennai: Defence Minister Rajnath Singh has commissioned indigenously built Indian Coast Guard Ship ‘Vigraha’ in Chennai on August 28.Terming it an important step towards achieving ‘AatmaNirbhar Bharat’, he said the ship is a ...
Rishi Raj Singh.During a lecture on a topic from Indian mediaeval history, suddenly a crispy voice from the back benches drew the professor’s attention with an indomitable query: “I object, sir, to calling the rulers by their faith. We sh...
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...
New Delhi: Defence Acquisition Council (DAC) on Friday took two major decisions, including the approval for the RFP for construction of six submarines at approx cost of Rs 43,000 crore and purchase of air defence guns for the armed forces worth Rs 6,...
The flags (L to R) of the US, Japan, India and Australia – the four members of the Quad.There is doubt among certain sections regarding the relevance of the quasi-security alliance between the United States, India, Japan and Australia, which is...
Funeral pyres burning at a ground that has been converted into a crematorium for mass cremation of coronavirus victims in New Delhi.As the Covid monster has been devastating human lives and national economies unabated across the world, I may infer th...