CCS clears agenda for talks with Pak on Siachen
India is expected to stick to its stand on authentication of troop positions at Siachen at the upcoming talks with Pakistan.
The issue was today discussed by the Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS),
Eastern Army headless
The crucial post of the General Officer Commanding-in-Chief (GOC-in-C) of the Indian Army’s Eastern Command has fallen vacant after General Bikram Singh took over as the new Army chief of the country
India may move troops to peacetime positions, Pak defence official
India is likely to thin-out troops from wartime positions on the border with Pakistan, where they were deployed after the 2008 Mumbai terrorist attacks, according to a media report on Monday.
The tw
Army recruitment: Candidates with tattoos rejected
Candidates sporting meaningless tattoos on their body will not be recruited in armed forces, Brigadier Pankaj Sinha who is in-charge of Chennai recruiting zone, said.
Mr Sinha who was here on Thursda
Allahabad HC orders media not to report troop movement
The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad high court, in a significant decision on Tuesday, ordered that the print and electronic media should not report matters relating to movement of troops.
Dismissing a
Army men recall Sam Manekshaw
Do we still have the strong communication network between the army chief, the bureaucrats and the political leadership in our country as in the early 1970s when Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw led the Ind
Army locks horns with land grabbers
The Army is fighting a battle to retain its own land that is being encroached upon by squatters right in the heart of the military cantonment area.
Around 12,000 acre of defence land across the coun
Army Chief controversy: Vectra’s Ravi Rishi left India in 1983
Ravi Rishi, promoter of the Vectra Group, which is under the scanner in relation with the V.K. Singh controversy, left India over a quarter-century back, after the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence
Army headquarters wanted key post for Lt. Gen.
Defence minister A.K. Antony revealed on Thursday that it was the Army headquarters had recommended that senior Army officer Lt. Gen. Dalbir Singh Suhag be appointed as an Army Commander. The recommen
India, US start military exercises in Raj desert
India and US kick-started their two week-long joint military exercise in the Rajasthan desert on Monday with their troops set to engage each other in a series of anti-terrorist and urban warfare dr