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 born on ...
Agniveer aspirants appearing for written test. (File)Srinagar: The first batch of recruits under the newly introduced Agnipath recruitment scheme from the Union territory of Jammu & Kashmir has joined the Indian Army for training, the Defence PRO...
Pralay during a test-firing. (Photo: Defence ministry)New Delhi: The defence ministry has given its go-ahead for the Indian Air Force and the Indian Army to procure 120 “Pralay” short-range surface-to-surface ballistic missiles, vari...
The remains of Indian Army truck that met with the fatal accident. (Photo via Twitter/@ashokkmrsingh)New Delhi: The Indian Army lost 16 soldiers, including three junior commissioned officers (JCOs), when a truck carrying them skidded while taking a s...
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...
Mahar Regiment’s Lt Gen C Bansi Ponnappa (2nd from left) shakes hands with 8 Squadron’s AVM MS Deswal after signing the “Charter of Affiliation”. (Photo: Indian Army)New Delhi: The Indian Army’s Mahar Regiment and the In...
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...
File picNew Delhi: Amid fresh spike in border tension with China at Yangtse in Arunachal Pradesh, the Indian Air Force commenced a two-day major exercise on Thursday in northeastern region of the country, with involving all its frontline platforms, i...