The Rezang-la War Memorial. (Photo collected by Jai Samota through special arrangement.)“We carved not a line, and we raised not a stone, But we left him alone in his glory.” ~ Charles WolfeAfter the eight-day battle, which...
Gen Manoj Pande with Lt Gen RP Kalita (File pic) Imphal: The Indian Army chief, General Manoj Pande, landed in Manipur, on Saturday, on a two-day visit to review the situation in the aftermath of ethnic clashes that broke out earlier this month ...
The NIMAS team at the summit of Mount Purgyal in Himachal Pradesh. (Photo by special arrangement) New Delhi: The defence ministry’s Dirang-based National Institute of Mountaineering and Adventure Sports has launched a one...
IAF, Army exercising along the western borders (PC: Western Command)New Delhi: Displaying exception synergy in a high tempo integrated exercise in obstacle-ridden terrain, the Indian Army’s paratroopers from the Shatrujeet Brigade and Indian Ai...
The red circles in this map roughly shows the areas where Indian and Chinese troops had skirmishes between 2020 and 2021 in eastern Ladakh. (CIA map via Wikipedia) New Delhi: The Indian Army has rejected China’s demand for a buffer zone i...
The red pin in this Google Earth satellite image shows the Niti pass. The white line is the LAC.New Delhi: China has now started building up pressure on India in the middle sector on the disputed border between the two countries, which is also known ...
Map showing location of Depsang Plains. The red line on the left depicts the line of control (LoC) with Pakistan and the same on the right depicts the line of actual control (LAC) with China. (Map not to scale)New Delhi: China has laid down its terms...
The test-firing of the MRSAM from INS Mormugao (Photo: Indian Navy) New Delhi: Three months after successfully fire-testing from INS Visakhapatnam, the Indian Navy, on Tuesday, undertook the maiden medium-range surface-to-air missile (MRSAM) fir...
A convoy of trucks and a JCB moving towards Manipur valley. (Photo by special arrangement)Imphal: Manipur has witnessed a significant reduction in the ethnic violence between the Meitei people and other tribal groups in the state, mainly the Kuki peo...
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...