New Delhi: Defence Minister Rajnath Singh has approved a proposal for extension of the rules for Maternity, Child Care and Child Adoption Leaves for women soldiers, sailors and air warriors in the Armed Forces at par with their officer counterparts.&...
Former Indian Army chief Gen MM Naravane (retd) at IIC in Delhi New Delhi: Flagging the Chinese aid to several insurgent groups in northeastern part of the country, former Indian Army chief General Manoj Mukund Naravane (Retd) said that the invo...
Newly attested Gorkha Agniveer soldiers pose with senior officers after taking oath. (File photo)New Delhi: In what is seen as a major shift in policy triggered by personnel shortage, the armed forces are mulling to permanently retain 50 per cent of ...
Guwahati: The Indian Army has announced the commencement of Phase II of Agniveer recruitment process which has already begun from June in various parts of India.“This phase marks a significant milestone in the Indian Army’s effort to tran...
Agniveers pose with senior officers after their attestation ceremony at the Jammu & Kashmir Regimental Centre, Srinagar. (Photo by special arrangement.) Srinagar/Nagpur/Prayagraj: The first batch of Agniveer recruits who completed their six-...
Bhubaneswar: A total of 2585 Agniveers, including 272 women of the Indian Navy passed out from the portals of INS Chilka, at Odhisa, in a first of its kind ceremonial, post sunset Passing Out Parade, held on Tuesday.The POP was held under the aegis o...
The Delhi high court.New Delhi: The Delhi high court on Monday dismissed a batch of pleas challenging the newly announced Agnipath scheme for recruitment of the Agniveers in the defence forces, stating that the scheme has been made in national i...
Army contingents marching during Republic Day parade in New Delhi. (Representational photo)The 2014 general election was unique in many ways. The world, perhaps for the first time, witnessed expenditure on a poll campaign on such a massive scale, esp...
Agniveer candidates taking a test in Jammu & Kashmir, in 2022. (Representational photo)New Delhi: The Indian Army has changed its selection process for new Agniveers. Now, from the next recruitment session, candidates will have to take an online ...
New Delhi: This year, the government has increased the defence budget to Rs 5.94 lakh crore from last year's allocation of Rs 5.25 lakh crore in the Union Budget presented in Parliament by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman. This is a...