Honour is a funny word, an abstract concept that can mean anything based on the context. Old soldiers will tell you that when it really comes…
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At a time when the Army is being accused of a gender bias in denying permanent commissions to women officers, two stories have symbolised the debate…
Beijing passed a message last week when it tested the J-20, its new generation locally produced stealth fighter, from an airbase in Sichuan on the day…
The first thing every cadet passing through the hallowed portals of the National Defence Academy in Khadakvasla learns is its motto: ‘˜Service before self’. If the…
Can there be anything more symptomatic of the current malaise in the police than the caustic retort by the Chattisgarh police DG that his forces can’t…
The Army chopper was circling over Bhuj. It was 2001, beneath us was an entire city flattened as if with a sledgehammer and the words had…
How much do we really value our jawans? Very little, in terms of the pensions paid to them. The claims of those who say that they…
Spelling out a new, more aggressive strategy to deal with terrorism in Jammu and Kashmir, the army says it will fence large tracts of the Line…
The government has approved a proposal for compulsory part-time military service for all government servants for a minimum of five years in the Territorial Army (TA).…
Bhuj: Twenty four hours after the quake ripped through the town, the people of Bhuj woke up to aftershocks of the quake. Bhuj has been virtually…