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Captain Fatima Wasim becomes third woman Indian Army officer to be posted in Siachen Glacier, first woman doctor deployed in operational post
Capt Fatima Wasim. (Screenshot of Indian Army video.)New Delhi: Indian Army officer Captain Fatima Wasim became the third woman to be posted in Siachen Glacier. She is also the second woman medical officer to be posted at the world’s highest ba...
Captain Geetika Koul becomes first woman medical officer in Indian Army to be posted in Siachen Glacier
Captain Geetika Koul (centre-front) flashing a V sign along with other soldiers at the Siachen base camp. (Photo: Indian Army)New Delhi: Captain Geetika Koul from the Snow Leopard Brigade has become the second woman officer and the first woman doctor...
61st anniversay of the Battle of Rezang-la celebrated in Leh
Maj Gen MS Mokha at Rezang La Memorial Leh: Fire and Fury Corps Chief of Staff Major General MS Mokha on Saturday paid tributes to the 114 Bravehearts of the Chushul Brigade at the Rezang La Memorial, on the occasion of the 61st Anniversary of t...
Who was Jaswant Singh Rawat, the soldier who killed over 300 Chinese troops during 1962 India-China war?
A portrait of Rifleman Jaswant Singh Rawat. During the last phase of the 1962 India-China war, the Indian Army units fighting in the North-East Frontier Agency (Nefa), now Arunachal Pradesh, were struggling with an acute shortage of manpower and...
Indian Army: Lt Gen Rajinder Dewan inaugurates permanent Aadhaar enrolment centre for Army in Delhi
New Delhi: Indian Army’s quartermaster general Lt Gen Rajinder Dewan inaugurated first Permanent Aadhaar Enrolment Centre (PAEC) for Army at 1 CBPO, New Delhi.Alok Sharma, director general postal services graced the occasion with his presence. ...
‘We Stared in the Eyes of Death’: The 1962 operations in Chushul
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...
Indian Army junks PLA’s ‘illegitimate’ Depsang Plains buffer-zone demand for disengagement, veterans react on China’s intentions and current situation
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...
In yet another fatal parachute failure in recent times, MARCOS commando plunges to death during jump
(Representative photo) New Delhi: In yet another case of fatal parachute failure during a jump in recent times, an Indian serviceman was killed, on Wednesday. This time, Petty Officer Chandaka Govind, 31, a commando from the Indian Navy’s ...
Kargil Courier Service: IAF’s AN-32, IL-76 airlift 3300 passengers during Srinagar-Kargil road closure period
Kargil: AN-32 Kargil Courier Service has airlifted around 3300 passengers during the closure of Srinagar-Kargil road due to snowfall in winter months.Started on January 18, the Kargil Courier Service availed the service of Indian Air Force’s tr...
‘Gateway to Hell’: The 1962 operation in Daulat Beg Oldie
Brig Rawind Singh Grewal, MC (C) with Lt Col Bakhtawar Singh, CO 5 Jat, (L) Lt Col Nihal Singh CO 14 J&K Militia (R) and troops of both the units. (Photo courtesy: Devraj Singh Jagat)“The Himalayas had been rudely woken up from their long, ...Results
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