Tag: Indian Army

New Delhi: An Indian Military and Training Team deployed in Uganda has set up a state-of-the-art gymnasium at the Senior Command and Staff College in Jinja town with help from Indian community settled there, official sources here said on Thursday. An Army statement said the Indian team had been deployed at southern Uganda’s Jinja college […]

United Nations: Pakistan has denied that India made any surgical strikes against it while accusing India of trying to provoke a conflict by “falsely” claiming it had carried out the operations and threatening to use more of them. Pakistan’s Permanent Representative Maleeha Lodhi raised the Kashmir issue again on Tuesday with the new twist about […]

Srinagar: Two policemen were injured on Monday in a grenade attack by two militants in Jammu and Kashmir’s Baramulla district, police said. A joint checkpost (naka) was set up police and the army at Juhama in Baramulla for routine area domination, a police officer said here. Shortly after 6 p.m., a motorcycle which was coming […]

Islamabad: A Pakistani court has extended by a month the detention of terrorist leader Hafiz Saeed, blamed for the Mumbai terror attack. On Tuesday, the Lahore High Court directed the counsel for Jamatud Dawa (JuD) chief Saeed to file a fresh application against the latest order of the Punjab Home Department extending his detention by […]

New Delhi: The Indian Army on Wednesday said it has carried out an operation against NSCN (K) militants along the border with Myanmar and inflicted “heavy casualties” on the insurgents. Army officials however clarified that it was “not a surgical strike”. The Eastern Command of the Indian Army said in a tweet that a “firefight” occurred […]

New Delhi: The cross-LoC surgical strike last year was carried out by Indian troops to send across a “strong message” to Pakistan, which could not have been conveyed through other means, former General Officer Commanding-in-Chief of the Army’s Northern Command Lt. General D.S. Hooda (retd) has said. Hooda, who oversaw the September 2016 attack across […]

Jammu: Pakistan Rangers resorted to heavy shelling on Monday across the international border in Jammu and Kashmir for the fourth consecutive day, police said. “They used 81 mm mortars, automatics and small weapons to target the Indian positions in Arnia sub-sector. “Heavy firing exchanges which started late Sunday continued till 5 a.m. today (Monday). Border […]

New Delhi: Thousands of old, unclassified files, CDs, and other material have been destroyed by different departments of the Indian Army as a part of its cleanliness mission, sources said. The exercise under the newly launched ‘Swachhta Hi Sewa Hai’ mission saw heaps of redundant material being destroyed. The Military Intelligence wing, at its South […]

Mumbai/Chennai: Maharashtra hero, the late Col. Santosh Mahadik’s widow Swati Mahadik was on Saturday commissioned into the Indian Army as a Lieutenant, officials said. As she completed her parade in Chennai on Saturday, Lt. Swati Mahadik broke down, and her family members and a senior army officer’s wife consoled and hugged her and wiped the […]

New Delhi: The Indian Army would induct women in its Corps of Military Police and a proposal is being finalised for inducting around 800 women — with a yearly intake of 52, it was announced on Friday.

New Delhi: In a major reform for the Indian Army, the government has accepted the first batch of 65 recommendations of the Lt. Gen. D.B. Shekatkar (retd.) headed committee which will result in redeployment of 57,000 personnel for roles to increase the “tooth to tail” ratio. Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, who also holds the Defence […]

New Delhi: A brief scuffle between Indian and Chinese troops was reported from Ladakh region in Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday, informed sources said, even as Army officials in Delhi refused comment. The Chinese soldiers are said to have attempted to cross the Line of Actual Control near Pangong lake, but were stopped by Indian […]

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday addressed the nation on the situation of flooding when it hits the country and how several agencies and volunteers have been contributing to allay the distress. During the floods “governmental agencies, Indian Army, National Disaster Response Force, para-military forces, everyone gets down to help others”, Modi said […]

New Delhi: China is bound to be a threat to India in the years to come, Indian Army’s Vice Chief Sarath Chand said on Tuesday as a stand-off between Indian and Chinese troops continues along the border in the Sikkim sector. Addressing a joint seminar of the Army’s Master General Ordnance and Confederation of Indian Industry, […]

Srinagar: The Indian Army, describing the Amarnath terror attack as “one reversal”, said on Saturday the situation in Jammu and Kashmir is under control and it will continue targeting terrorists. “The Amarnath Yatra attack has been one reversal but we will continue our operations, will continue targeting terrorists. We will continue improving the situation,” the Chinar […]