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...
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...
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 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...
Arnala being showered with flower petals during her launch in Chennai. (Photo: GRSE)Chennai: “Arnala”, the first of the eight ships being built by the Garden Reach Shipbuilders & Engineers under the Anti-Submarine Warfare Short Waterc...
BSF Mahila Praharis on floating border outpost Ganga in the Sundarbans. (Photo: BSF) Kolkata: The Border Security Force has for the first time deployed “Mahila Praharis” women guards in the Sundarbans delta in south Bengal. The Sunda...
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...