He was expected to report for duty on February 10, according to Rama Nandagopal, president of Krishnagiri district BJP ex-servicemen wing.
A day after National Security Guard Lt Col Niranjan Kumar and Garud Commando Gursewak Singh were slain in the Pathankot air base attack, their remains were brought home for the last rites. Locals, family members and politicians gathered to pay their respects to these heroes.
Three junior commissioned officers and two soldiers of the Rashtriya Rifles will face disciplinary action in connection with the killing of two youths in Bomai-Sopore area on February 21, a defence spokesman said today.
The army has ordered a departmental inquiry by a three-member team led by a brigadier-level officer into the activites of Lt Col S P Purohit arrested for his alleged involvement in Malegaon blasts.
The Abhinav Bharat President Himani Savarkar on Friday said Maharashtra Anti-Terror Squad's contention that the Malegaon blast conspiracy was discussed in her presence by Lt Col Prasad Purohit in April 2008 in Bhopal, is a pack of lies.
The Anti Terrorism Squad on Wednesday told the MCOCA court hearing the case into the September 2008 Malegaon blast that it has video recordings of a meeting in which the blast accused were present
Shyam Apte, an engineer who returned to India after spending 25 years in the United States and has been staying in Pune since the last one decade since his retirement, was grilled for three hours by ATS officials at his residence in Nav Sahyadri area of the city on Friday last. His name figured in the narco test of Lt Col Prasad Shrikant Purohit
The special MCOCA court on Tuesday directed the state to file its reply to the allegations of physical torture levelled by sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur, Lt Col Purohit and others accused in the Malegaon blast case
Officials said security forces used light weapons to demolish the boundary walls of the complex and clear other hurdles to observe the movement of militants. "Calculated shots were fired at the obstacles," an official source said.
"As an Indian and Sikh, I am an individual from a different culture who has come here not only to study but live with Americans. I have seen how they live and view the world, and this has also affected me," Singh said.
Bangladeshi border guards arrested four Indians who were allegedly trying to enter Bangladesh on Friday with arms and ammunition, a border official said.
With friendlier and more compatible immigration policies being mooted by Canada, the number of Indians wanting to migrate is expected to increase, a top official of the World Wide Immigration and Consultancy Services said.
The chargesheet was filed against Lt Col (retired) V P Sayal and sacked Brig Iqbal Singh.
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A sophisticated Indian Air Force Sukhoi-30 MKI fighter aircraft today crashed near Jaisalmer in Rajasthan, killing one of the two pilots.
The death toll in the fierce gun battles between holed up militants and army troops in the Shamsbhari mountain range in north Kashmir's Kupwara district has gone upto 19, according to a defence spokesman in Srinagar.
The judicial custody of Lt Col Prasad Purohit, an accused in the 2008 Malegaon blast, was on Monday extended till February 21 by a court in Nashik, in a case of procuring arms license on fake documents. The army officer was produced before Judge V V Joshi as his remand in the arms license case ended on Monday, Purohit's counsel Avinash Bhide told PTI.
A defence spokesman said the incident happened when 34 Rashtriya Rifles (RR) started a jungle operation in Rangwar near the famous health resort of Tangmarg.
The Jamiat Ulema-i-Hind, an 89-year old largest such Islamic body in the country that issued a 'fatwa' signed by 6,000 Muslim clerics in Hyderabad ten days ago against terrorism, on Monday moved the Supreme Court for release of a large number of Muslim youths held in connections with blasts in Malegaon in 2001, 2006 and 2008.
In the retaliatory fire by the army, two of the militants were killed and the troops noticed the ultras dragging the two bodies back into the Pakistani side of the LoC, he added.
Lt Col S D Goswami said the helicopter with two pilots -- Major Padmanabhan and Major S Ganapathy of the Army Aviation Squadron at Leh -- had taken off on Friday to evacuate an injured jawan. The helicopter lost contact with the air traffic control while returning to Leh in bad weather. The wreckage was found near a mountain pass in the eastern Ladakh.
Six members of a California National Guard will face court martials for their alleged involvement in cases of prisoner abuse in Iraq.
Wednesday's firing marks yet another incident in a series of cross-border offensives that has put the four-year-old ceasefire between India and Pakistan under stress. The firing from across the border took place at 1215 hours.
The Life Guards troopers, members of the British Army's most senior regiment, staged the late night orgy less then two kms from Buckingham palace. They then distributed copies of the video among colleagues.
'The AIFF has decided to send their team to Pakistan in June this year to play a three-match series," PFF's director (technical) Mujahidullah Khan said.
Abhinav Bindra climbed 24 rungs to second position in the 10m Air Rifle rankings while Olympic silver medallist Lt Col Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore is fifth in the Double Trap event.
More than 160 people have been killed and several hundreds injured in clashes between Meiteis and Kukis in Manipur since May 3.
The victims of the 2008 Malegaon blast case have written to the chief justice and registrar of Bombay high court requesting them to extend the tenure of special NIA judge PR Sitre, who has been presiding over the trial since August 2020.
Three Indians, including two women, died while one was injured in a fire that broke out in an apartment in Kuwait's city of Abu Halifa, fire officials said on Saturday.
National Guard Ryan G Anderson offered to pass on information about military capabilities to Al Qaeda.
The condition of the injured is stated to be stable, the officials said.
Senior British commander in Alamarah in Iraq, Lt Col Andrew Williams, told Washington Times in an interview on Tuesday. London is yet to confirm this report.
"I want to wear my uniform. It is outermost layer of my skin. I am wedded to it. I am very happy to get back into the service of the best organisation in the country if not the world, the Indian Army," said Lt Col Shrikant Prasad Purohit.
The joint search operation was launched by Quick Reaction Team of the Army and Special Operation Group of police.
Bhutto was killed in a gun-and-bomb attack during an election campaign rally on December 27, 2007 outside the Liaquat Bagh in Rawalpindi.
The anti-terror operation is still on.
The five-member team will be given a detailed presentation before they visit the attack site on Tuesday.
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