The Tawang Monastery. (Photo by Rajat Chakraborty/Unsplash.)Arunachal Pradesh – which is also called the “land of dawn-lit mountains” – is the 24th state of India. It was formed from the erstwhile North-East Frontier Agency (N...
While the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War between Indian-Mukti Bahini forces and the Pakistani military has always been easy to remember for our resounding victory over our archenemy, the India-China border conflict of 1962 has always been difficult t...
Srinagar: University of Kashmir and Indian Army’s Chinar Corps have signed a Memorandum of Understanding at Gandhi Hall in Srinagar to provide distance education courses to soldiers presently serving in Kashmir.As envisaged in the MoU, the sold...
Chandigarh: Defence Minister Rajnath Singh visited Terminal Ballistics Research Laboratory (TBRL) of Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) in Chandigarh on October 28, 2021.Addressing over 500 scientists & officials of DRDO, the mi...
New Delhi: US Naval Operations chief Adm Michael Gilday, who is on a five day official visit to India, discussed bilateral maritime relations with Indian Navy chief Admiral Karambir Singh in New Delhi.“We are committed to operationalizing our #...
The India-Tibet border with disputed territories marked in yellow. India and China never shared a common border until China annexed Tibet, a process it started in 1950. This brought the dragon right to our doorstep. With its annexation of Tibet,...
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...