The NIMAS team on Tsangyang Gyatso Peak. (India Sentinels photo via special arrangement.)Dirang, Arunachal Pradesh: In a first, a team from the National Institute of Mountaineering and Adventure Sports (NIMAS) has successfully scaled a previously unn...
The Se-la tunnel during its construction. (India Sentinels file photo.)New Delhi: The long-awaited and strategically important Se-la tunnel in western Arunachal Pradesh, near the line of actual control (LAC), is set to open for traffic on March 9. Th...
The NIMAS Har Shikhar Tiranga team at Mount Jongsong, Sikkim. (Photo by special arrangement.)New Delhi: In a remarkable feat and first-of-its-kind expedition, the Dirang-based National Institute of Mountaineering and Adventure Sports (NIMAS) tea...
A portrait of Rifleman Jaswant Singh Rawat. During the last phase of the 1962 India-China war, the Indian Army units fighting in the North-East Frontier Agency (Nefa), now Arunachal Pradesh, were struggling with an acute shortage of manpower and...
The NIMAS team at the summit of Mount Purgyal in Himachal Pradesh. (Photo by special arrangement) New Delhi: The defence ministry’s Dirang-based National Institute of Mountaineering and Adventure Sports has launched a one...
An Indian Army Cheetah helicopter. (Photo for representational purpose only.) Guwahati: An Indian Army Aviation Corps Cheetah helicopter crashed near Mandala in Arunachal Pradesh’s West Kameng district, on Thursday morning. The crash resul...
MoS Defence Ajay Bhatt flags-in the first-ever 6-nation Cycling Expedition New Delhi: Dirang-based National Institute of Mountaineering & Adventure Sports (NIMAS)-led by its director Colonel Ranveer Jamwal has created history by undertaking ...
Col Ranveer Singh Jamwal (2R) and his NIMAS cycling team. (Handout photo)New Delhi: To commemorate “Aazadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav”, a four-member team of the Dirang-based National Institute of Mountaineering and Adventure Sports (NIMAS) is rea...
Itanagar: An expedition of the team of the National Institute of Mountaineering and Adventure Sports (NIMAS) has become the first of its kind expedition to not just travel all the seven states of India’s northeast (NE) but has set the record of...
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 ...