For the first time ever, an all-girl band from the northeast will participate in the National Cadet Corps Republic Day Camp, this year. The band will comprise 45 girls aged 13–15 belonging to various states across the northeast. Read More

Randhir Jaiswal, an IFS officer of the 1998 batch, has assumed the role of the foreign ministry spokesman succeeding Arindam Bagchi, who has been appointed India’s representative to the United Nations and other international bodies in Geneva. Read More

India and the United Arab Emirates started their first-ever joint military exercise “Desert Cyclone”. The two-week exercise is taking place at the Mahajan Field Firing Range in Rajasthan. Read More

Lieutenant General Ram Chandra Tiwari officially became the commander of the Indian Army’s Eastern Command at its iconic headquarters in Fort William, Kolkata, on Monday. He succeeded Lieutenant General Rana Pratap Kalita, who superannuated on Saturday. Read More

The Indian Navy has significantly increased its patrolling and maritime surveillance in central and northern Arabian Sea in response to the security incidents on commercial shipping vessels transiting through the international shipping lanes in the Red Sea to the Arabian Sea. Read More

India has requested Pakistan to extradite Hafiz Saeed, founder of Lashkar-e-Taiba and a key accused in the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks, to India from its soil. Islamabad says it has no bilateral treaty with New Delhi to facilitate such a process. Read More

The pro-talks faction of the United Liberation Front of Asom (Ulfa) has signed an agreement with the Union home ministry and Assam government to formally shun violence and disband the militant outfit. However, Paresh Baruah’s Ulfa (I) faction still remains an issue. Read More

The eight former Indian Navy officers whose death sentence has been commuted by a court of appeal in Qatar will now have to serve between three and 25 years in a Qatari prison. However, it would be tough for India to get these men back to India before the completion of their sentences. Read More

A memorial erected by Indian soldiers a few years ago on the spot where Major Shaitan Singh, one of the nation’s most celebrated war heroes, fell fighting the Chinese in the 1962 war’s Battle of Rezang-la, has been razed to create a buffer zone between India and China as part of the deal to de-escalate tensions along the LAC. Read More

In what should come as an immediate but temporary relief to India, a Qatari court on Thursday commuted the death sentence of eight former Indian Navy personnel to varying prison terms. Read More