New Delhi: Former CBI Special Director Rakesh Asthana was on Monday appointed Director-General (DG) of the Border Security Force (BSF).Currently, he is serving as head of Narcotics Control Bureau.Asthana, a 1984-batch Gujarat cadre officer, has...
New Delhi: The government today announced the list of 926 police personnel from across the country to receive prestigious medals on the occasion of Independence Day this year, as a total of 215 are to be given Police Medal for Gallantry (PMG), 80 to ...
New Delhi: Indian Coast Guard (ICG) on Thursday launched its fourth in the series of five offshore patrol vessels (OPV), re-christened as ICG Ship “Sarthak” in an impressive ceremony at Goa Shipyard Limited.The ship was launched by V...
An Indian Army T-72 tank high in the Himalayas. Last week, we had Brigadier RJS Dhillon taking us north in a sharp but shallow offensive through Depsang, SSN (subsector north) and the Karakoram Pass in order to gain a bargaining advantage with t...
New Delhi: India and Nepal Oversight Mechanism meeting will be held on August 17 in Kathmandu to review ongoing bilateral economic and development projects.It would be the first high-level contact between the two sides since ties were hit by a border...
A June satellite image showing Chinese military build-up in the Galwan valley. (Photograph: 2020 Planet Labs via Twitter)Since the 20 Indian soldiers, including a colonel, were killed in a bloody clash with China’s People’s Liberation Arm...
New Delhi: Indian Army’s Bhimber Gali Brigade has commemorated Bhimber Gali Diwas to remember the gallant action of Capt Chander Narain Singh, who laid down his life while combating Pakistani infiltrators in Galuthi in Rajauri zone of Jammu &am...
Lieutenant General Ranbir Singh, former commander of the Northern Army, on a tank in Ladakh. (Representative image via Northern Command, Indian Army/Twitter) Many of our readers, by now, know about the exploits of Brigadier Rupinder (RJS) Dhillo...
New Delhi: With most of the telecom hardware are of Chinese origin and many Indian telecom majors under massive Chinese debt, Internet will be Achilles’ Heel of New India, a new book has cautioned.It says that the decision on 5G, pending with t...
New Delhi: Sapta Shakti Command commander Lt Gen Alok Kler on Saturday visited Hisar Military Station and reviewed the operational readiness of the command.He was received by ‘Dot On Target’ Division GOC Maj Gen Devindar Kumar.“The ...