The Centre has issued a notice that will see only women contingent taking part in the main Republic Day military parade next year in the capital’s Kartavya Path. This will be the first time that only women will take part in the grand parade on January 26, 2024. Not just the military parade, the marching bands, tableaux, and cultural performances will also have only women participants. Read More

The British high commissioner to India, Alex Ellis, hosted a reception and screening of the coronation of King Charles III and Queen Camilla, at his residence in New Delhi, on Saturday. Read More

Indian Coast Guard has brought 10 Indian fishermen who were rescued from Maldivian waters to Visakhapatnam on Saturday. Read More

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Saturday landed at Rajouri Army base camp in Jammu & Kashmir to take stock of the security situation in the border districts of Rajouri and Poonch. Read More

At the Shanghai Cooperation Organization foreign ministers’ meeting here, India’s foreign minister, S Jaishankar, launched a scathing attack on his Pakistani counterpart, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, for Islamabad’s continuous support to anti-India terrorism. Read More

The number of Indian Army soldiers killed in Friday’s encounter with militants in Jammu & Kashmir’s Rajouri sector has climbed to five with three more soldiers succumbing to their injuries at the Army Command Hospital in Udhampur. Read More

The Maharashtra anti-terror squad arrested senior Defence Research and Development Organization scientist Pradeep M Kurulkar, on Thursday, for allegedly passing highly sensitive defence-related information to Pakistani agents from the country’s notorious spying agency ISI. Read More

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