After three months of intensive review of his Af-Pak policy, US President Barack Obama on Tuesday announced to send an additional 30,000 troops to Afghanistan and begin withdrawal of troops in 18 months.
A suspected poacher was killed in a firing by National Defence Academy's security guards in Pune on Friday when a group of individuals tried to enter its premise.
Trekkers can now go up the icy heights of the second largest glacier in the mighty Karakoram range in Ladakh region of Jammu and Kashmir, a dreaded place till four years ago because of continuous shelling from Pakistan.
National Defence Academy's Camp Rover puts to test the physical and mental endurance of 19-year-old cadets. Cameraperson Hitesh Harisinghani and Abhishek Mande sneak a peek into what is supposed to be toughest military camp in its age group.
A higher intake of Short Service Commissioned officers, picking up potential recruits who have just passed out from schools and payment of monthly stipends to cadets in military academies are some of the suggestions made to government to make up the shortage of officers in the army.
According to reports, the militants had visited Bangalore and surveyed the location of several software companies there in December 2004, Joint Commissioner of Police (Special Cell) Karnal Singh said.
The Navy is will be adding 40 more new ships in the near future.
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The 23-year-old will follow in the footsteps of his brother Prince Harry, who entered Sandhurst earlier this year.
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The Amity Indian Military College opens admissions to students of Class VIII and IX.
Two other militants were arrested from the encounter scene, the sources added.
A total of 687 cadets were inducted into the Indian Army as officers on Saturday after a passing-out parade at the prestigious Indian Military Academy in Dehradun.
The last time a President travelled by train was in 2006 when A P J Abdul Kalam boarded a special train from Delhi to Dehradun to attend the passing-out parade of the Indian Military Academy cadets.
A soldier, who allegedly scripted his own death at the Indian Military Academy (IMA) in 2003 to indulge in espionage, will be brought to Dehradun.
According to the police, Cadet G Pratyush had reported to the academy on Monday.
At a time when Manipur is burning, voices like Colonel Sapam's serve as a healing balm. 'These are voices that need to heard and their stories of peace and reconciliation must be retold -- over and over again.
If Modi wants to leave a real legacy, breaking India's strategic triangulation would be the real gift, notes Shekhar Gupta.
Hu Zhiyong, a research fellow at the Shanghai Academy of Social Science, claimed that India is provoking China because it wanted to prove to the United States that it could contain China while Prime Minister Narendra Modi was in the US.
The Agniveer passing out parade was as much about family celebration as it was a military event. Alongside the pomp, pageantry and discipline of the parade were the personal stories of families, their struggles and how far they had come.
There were reports of lobbying within the Pakistan army for the ISI DG's post, which falls vacant in June, reveals Rana Banerji, who headed the Pakistan desk at the Research and Analysis Wing, India's external intelligence agency.
Lieutenant Commander Prerana Pravin Deosthalee will lead an all-male crew. She is currently the first lieutenant of INS Chennai, the missile destroyer that rescued a foreign merchant ship hijacked by pirates off the coast of Somalia last week.
After government and political leaders, it was the turn of Pakistan army chief Gen Raheel Sharif to rake up the issue of Kashmir and breathe fire saying their armed forces were fully capable of meeting any 'external threat'.
Lt Gen Naravane is currently serving as Vice Chief of the Army. In his 37 years of service, Lt Gen Naravane has served in numerous command and staff appointments in peace, field and highly active counter-insurgency environments in Jammu and Kashmir and the Northeast.
Major Beena Tiwari was the only woman in the 99-member medical team at the Indian Army's field hospital in earthquake-hit Turkey.
Major Prafulla Menezes (retd), Lieutenant Colonel Harjinder Singh's wife, and young daughter Preet Kaur pay homage to a husband and father, whose services to the motherland, will always be remembered, never forgotten.
The United States and China have agreed to expand military exchanges and exercises as part of efforts to build more stable bilateral ties amid tensions over cyber security.
Based mainly on his reconnaissance reports, the Indian Army went ahead with the mission to occupy the Siachen heights under the Operation Meghdoot.
'There are major implications for India. Though there was a transparently thin attempt to project the troop reduction as intended to promote peace, the downsizing is actually part of plans to streamline and strengthen the PLA, capable of defending China's national interests at home and abroad,' says Jayadev Ranade.
'At school, on August 15, the Indian flag was raised. There was no national anthem at that time and we sang Rise India Thy Millions Lead,' recalls military legend Major General Ian Cardozo (retd).
"The Air Force and Navy have acted in a more liberal way. However, in the Army, you kept giving them a five-five year's job and never gave permanent commission till the verdict of the Supreme Court. If you are introducing women in the Army then why do you create a bar in NDA," the SC said.
'He was a sentimental man, but his commitment to the Olive Green always came before anything else, including his family.' A fascinating excerpt from Rachna Bisht Rawat's Bipin: The Man Behind The Uniform.
"We attach great importance to our trade, economic and political relations with India and want to maintain that relation," Stanekzai said.
The fifth edition of the joint exercise between Indian and China, codenamed 'Hand-in-Hand 2015', commenced at the Kunming Military Academy at Yunnan Province in China on October 12.
How Pakistan army chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa deals with the ensuing reshuffle of lieutenant generals would be interesting to watch, notes Rana Banerji, who headed the Pakistan desk at the Research and Analysis Wing, India's external intelligence agency.
Keeping the contents of the BBC documentary aside, Rishi Sunak's response needs to be viewed in the backdrop of Britain's historically close relations with Pakistan, argues Lieutenant General Prakash Katoch (retd).
The sixth chapter of the Joint Military Training Exercise "Hand in Hand" between India and China are ongoing in Pune in Maharashtra with a focus on "transnational terrorism" and counter-terrorism operations in "semi-urban scenarios."
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