The prime minister, Narendra Modi, will visit the French capital, Paris, on July 14 to attend this year’s Bastille Day parade as the guest of honour.The French president, Emmanuel Macron, invited Modi to the parade as the guest of honour on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the India-France Strategic Partnership. Read More

Two Indian Army soldiers were killed and four, including an officer, was injured while carrying out an intelligence-based anti-militant operation in the Kandi forest area of Jammu & Kashmir’s Rajouri sector. India Sentinels has learned that the fallen soldiers belonged to the Army’s 9 Para SF unit. Read More

The Army and the Assam Rifles have been ordered to step in and shoot at sight as last resort to control mobs in Manipur after the dispute between tribal groups and the majority Meitei community over the latter’s demand for “scheduled tribe” status spiralled into deadly and widespread violence. Read More

The Indian Army and the Indian Air Force recently concluded a monthlong joint combat exercise in the northeast with the Indo-Tibetan Border Police and the Sashastra Seema Bal, sources in the defence and security establishment revealed, on Thursday. The exercise took place at Mandala high-altitude area in Arunachal Pradesh. Read More

An Indian Army Dhruv advanced light helicopter crashed at a remote area in Jammu & Kashmir’s Marwah area in Kishtwar district, on Thursday morning. The accident left an airman, Craftsman (Aviation Tech) Pabballa Anil, dead and the two pilots injured. Read More

In a major development, the Narendra Modi-led government moved to abolish Indian Army cantonments across the country after terming creating (and maintaining) them as “archaic colonial practice”. The first cantonment to be abolished is the Yol cantonment in Himachal Pradesh. Many veterans have reacted to it positively and many negatively. Read More

To take part in the inaugural multinational maritime exercise between the Association of Southeast Asian Nations and India, Indian Navy warships INS Satpura and INS Delhi have reached Singapore, on Monday. The weeklong multinational naval drill, named Asean India Maritime Exercise – 2023 or AIME – 2023, will start from Tuesday and culminate on May 8. Read More

India has evacuated over 2,300 nationals and some others from foreign countries from the civil war-hit Sudan, as of Sunday. India’s evacuation mission, which is codenamed “Operation Kaveri”, involves all three services of the Indian armed forces – Army, Navy, and Air Force, who are working in coordination with the foreign ministry. Read More

The first batch of five women officers was commissioned into the Regiment of Artillery of the Indian Army after their successful completion of training at the Officers Training Academy (OTA) Chennai on Saturday. Read More

In talks during the first high-level military visit from China since the start of the Ladakh stand-off in April 2020, the defence minister, Rajnath Singh, curtly told his Chinese counterpart, Li Shangfu, that (China’s) violation of existing agreements has eroded the entire basis of bilateral relations between the two countries. Read More