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 ...
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...
Veterans at New Delhi’s Jantar Mantar demanding for implementation of one rank, one pension. (File photo)New Delhi: The Union Cabinet headed by the prime minister, Narendra Modi, has approved the revision of pension armed forces’ pensione...
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 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...
Pakistan’s Lt Gen AAK Niazi (right) signing the instrument of surrender under the direction of Indian Army’s Eastern Command GOC-in-C Lt Gen JS Arora (left) in Dhaka, on December 16, 1971.India and Bangladesh celebrate Vijay Diwas on Dece...
Rajnath Singh briefing Parliament on the Indian Army-PLA clash in Arunachal Pradesh.New Delhi: The defence minister, Rajnath Singh, briefed Parliament on the December 9 clash between Indian Army troops and China’s People’s Liberation...
Commodore Rakesh Anand (retired), head of Crown Group Defence’s Marine Division. (Crown Group Defence photo)Commodore Rakesh Anand (retired), head of Crown Group Defence’s Marine Division, in this interview with Palak Sharma of ...
London: Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced that the UK will work with Italy and Japan to adapt and respond to the security threats of the future, through an unprecedented international aerospace coalition.The Global Combat Air Programme (GCAP) is a...