New Delhi: Indian Army officer Captain Shiva Chouhan created history by becoming the first Indian Army woman officer to be operationally posted to the Kumar Post, situated at an altitude of 15,632 feet in the Siachen Glacier – the world’s...
Lt Yog Raj Palta. This is the story of Lieutenant Yog Raj Palta, a young and adventurous Indian Army officer who loved his Royal Enfield bike and Panama cigarettes – and immortalized himself in the 1962 India-China war.Yog Raj Palta was bo...
PHK Singh (R) during his inspection trip at the Se-la tunnel. (Photo: Defence PRO - Tezpur)Tezpur: The additional director general of Border Roads Organization (East), PKH Singh, inspected the progress made in the construction of the strategic Se-la ...
Indian tanks in Ladakh. (Representational photo)New Delhi: The Defence Acquisition Council, headed by the defence minister, Rajnath Singh, has given its approval for acceptance of necessity (AoN) to acquire 24 different types of weapons, weapon syste...
Indian Army and PLA soldiers during a meeting near the LAC in northern sector. (Photo via Twitter)New Delhi: India and China held their 17th round of corps commander-level talks to resolve the ongoing stand-off between the militaries of the two count...
Indian and Chinese troops facing each other across a rivulet near the LAC in the Tawang sector. (Photo for representation)The recent clash at the line of actual control in Arunachal Pradesh’s Yangtse plateau near Tawang is the continuation of a...
Lt Gen Rana Pratap Kalita.Kolkata: Eastern Army Command general officer commanding in chief Lieutenant General Rana Pratap Kalita said border areas in the northern frontier are stable and the Indian Army is firmly in control. According to an ET repor...
Defence minister Rajnath Singh (C) with Adm R Hari Kumar and others on INS Mormugao’s deck during the destroyer’s commissioning.Mumbai: The Indian Navy commissioned the country’s latest guided-missile destroyer, Mormugao, into the f...
Agni V during a trial. (File photo)New Delhi: India test-fired its latest version of Agni V missile in full operational mode. The user trial of the intermediate-range ballistic missile (IRBM) with a stated range of 5,500 kilometres was conducted from...
MARCOS commandos during a hostage-rescue demonstration in Mumbai. (File photo)New Delhi: The Indian Navy and the Indian Air Force have allowed women officers to volunteer to join the special forces units of their respective services – MARCOS an...