Indian Army

KERAN (KUPWARA): Despite the recent spurt in targeted killings in the mesmerising Kashmir Valley, the fact is the bravehearts of the Indian army had tightened the noose around the terrorists while battling the elements of nature in one of the most challenging climes. While we, on the plains of India, are complaining about the harsh […]

Out of the stated highlights of the Agnipath Scheme, to me, the two big ones are: A) 25% of the top performers at the end of their 4-year stint get a chance to enrol in the Indian Army. That is a decent proposition, considering that only the best of all the regular applicants to the […]

DEHRADUN: “How’s the f****ng josh? High Sir!” Ambience charged with patriotism, emotions running high among newly inducted Indian Army officers on Saturday in Indian Military Academy (IMA), Dehradun as it witnessed 288 cadets graduating to become part of the second-largest Army in the world. A total of 377 ‘Gentleman Cadets’ (GCs), 150 from Regular Course […]

  DEHRADUN: Barely touching 21, Baba Danish Langer, from Jammu’s Akhnoor, a region that remains under routine shelling from Pakistan, is now a Lieutenant. But Langer’s fight is more than a fistful of stoicism as he has become India’s rare Army officer who suffers from Guillain-Barre Syndrome (GBS), a life-threatening paralysis in which the immune […]

    SRINAGAR: Lt Gen Amardeep Singh Aujla on Monday took over the command of the strategic Chinar Corps from Lt Gen Devendra Pratap Pandey at Corps headquarters here. Lt Gen Pandey is moving to the Army War College in Mhow as its Commandant. Lt Gen Aujla belonged to the Rajputana Rifles regiment of the […]

    SRINAGAR: In a major success against the terrorists in the Kashmir valley, the security forces neutralized two terrorists including a Pakistani LeT commander Haider in an encounter at Cheyan Devsar area of Kulgam. Incriminating materials, arms and ammunition including one AK-56 with four magazines, one pistol with a magazine, one UBGL, one pouch […]

  SRINAGAR: The outgoing General Officer Commanding of the Srinagar-based 15 Corps, Lieutenant General Devendra Pratap Pandey, on Thursday said that there is a glimmer of new beginning visible in the restive region since the revocation of the special status of Jammu and Kashmir. “A lot of water has flown through Jhelum since 2016-17 and […]

SRINAGAR: With the number of local terrorists coming down, the foreign terrorists are now getting exposed in Kashmir, Lieutenant General Devendra Pratap Pandey, General Officer Commanding (GoC) of the Army’s 15 Corps said on Monday. Talking to the media persons on the sidelines of an event in Srinagar, Lt Gen Pandey explained the reason behind […]

NEW DELHI: A distinguished soldier and a prominent member of the Kashmiri pandit community General (retd.) Tej Kaul, PVSM, AVSM, VSM was awarded the prestigious Dr Nirmala Deshpande Memorial Global Peace Award on Sunday. The awards committee of Akhil Bharat Rachanatmak Samaj (ABRS), under the chairmanship of its vice-president and former Member of Legislative Council, […]

SRINAGAR: The management of Dagger Parivaar School Baramulla, a school for specially-abled kids in Kashmir, has instructed its staff not to wear Hijab during school hours. The school in North Kashmir that caters specifically to physically challenged children is run by the Army in collaboration with a Pune based NGO. “Parivaar School is a place […]