New Delhi: India’s first indigenous aircraft carrier (IAC) Vikrant has commenced sailing on Wednesday for crucial sea trials ahead of its planned induction into the Indian Navy next year.IAC is a leading example of the nation’s quest for ...
New Delhi: Lt Gen Tarun Kumar Chawla will assume the appointment of the Director General of Artillery on Saturday. He takes over the appointment from Lt Gen K Ravi Prasad, who superannuated on July 31 after completing thirty nine years of distinguish...
Shimla: Two Border Roads Organisation (BRO) personnel have lost their lives during rescue and relief operations in flood-hit Himachal Pradesh. BRO lost an engineer and a project personnel during relief and rescue operation in the state. In Laha...
New Delhi: Vice Admiral SN Ghormade, a navigation and direction specialist, on Saturday assumed charge as the new Vice Chief of the Navy.Admiral Ghormade has had extensive operational tenures onboard frontline warships of the Navy that included comma...
Rishi Raj Singh.During a lecture on a topic from Indian mediaeval history, suddenly a crispy voice from the back benches drew the professor’s attention with an indomitable query: “I object, sir, to calling the rulers by their faith. We sh...
New Delhi: Senior Indian and Chinese military commanders will hold the 12th round of talks in the Ladakh sector on Saturday. The meeting will be focused around disengagement from Gogra and Hot Springs.The talks between corps commander-ranked officers...
Indian troops surrendering at the Namka-chu area. This is part of the series on the 1962 India-China border war that seeks to debunk the myths, misinformation and politics spun around India’s debacle in the North-East Frontier Agency.Gener...
Jalpaiguri: Border Security Force Director General Rakesh Asthana on Saturday visited Teenbigha Corridor on the Indo-Bangladesh border and reviewed the border management.He was briefed by Deputy Inspector General of Sector Headquarters BSF Jalpaiguri...
New Delhi: The defence ministry has implemented SPARSH [System for Pension Administration (Raksha)], an integrated system for automation of sanction and disbursement of defence pension.This web-based system processes pension claims and credits pensio...
New Delhi: Air Marshal BR Krishna took over as Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief (AOC-in-C) of Western Air Command on Thursday. The Air Marshal was commissioned in the IAF in December 1983 as a Fighter Pilot.In a distinguished career spanning nearly 38...