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Indian government has announced that Lieutenant General Bikram Singh, the Eastern Army Commander, will be the next Indian Army chief. Lieutenant General Bikram Singh currently heads the Indian Army's eastern command and will take the top post on 31st of May when Gen. VK Singh will be retiring...

The tradition of a salute has huge importance in the army. But do you know how the tradition begun or what a salute means? When a soldier salutes his superiors, his right hand goes up on his forehead with his palm showing. What this means is that he has no weapon hidden up anywhere and that his...

Front line for defense from external attacks is formed by three wings of defense forces which are namely Indian Army , Indian Navy and Air Force. Indian Army is the second largest defence force all over the world with more than a million active army men. Head of the army in India is considered...

The 1.13 million strong Indian Army, the 2nd largest in the world, now wants its own "fully-empowered and trained" police force to take care of both External as well as Internal crime. As part of an overall transformation in the pipeline to make the Indian Defence force into a lean and mean...

Army Day marks a day to remember the Brave Indian soldiers who sacrificed their lives to protect our Nation and the Indians living in it. Army Day is celebrated on 15th of January every year. in recognition of Lieutenant General (later Field Marshal ) K. M. Kariappa's taking over as the first...

To guard the territorial integrity and national security from any quarter, the Army Chief, General Deepak Kapoor, has assured that security forces are ready to face any challenge , and added that Special Forces modernisation is being done keeping in view asymmetric and fourth generation warfare...

The Army is creating a new Mountain Division for the Northeast, headquartered in central Nagaland or the adjoining areas of Upper Assam. Although it will be stationed in an area when the Army is engaged in counter-insurgency operations, sources say the division could also have the task of...

by : PTI The government has appointed Lt Gen Jasbir Singh as the new Director General of Infantry at the Army headquarters here, a month after the post fell vacant following the retirement of incumbent Lt Gen Rajendra Singh. Commissioned in the Dogra regiment in 1972, Lt Gen Jasbir Singh is an...

I wonder how come the media didn't raise any issue or if anyone noticed about the commandos being taken in BEST buses...i mean its such a disgrace that the VIPs, ministers, the filmstars get such a better treatment and the real heroes are taken in local buses ?

An actor or an actress are hit just because of media attraction, but they work for themselves..why are our indian soldiers neglected both by indian government & general public. ? Come lets pray for atleast one minute for our soldiers who have lost thier lives for the nation & still are on the...

Sixteen-year-old Iqbal Ahmad, from a frontier town in Jammu and Kashmir, was shattered after he lost his left arm and leg in a landmine blast that also killed his father some years ago. But today Iqbal is happy and walks to his school - of course with difficulty - but no longer feels...

by : Zee news Indian Armed Forces are facing a shortage of 13,830 officers. This was stated by Defence Minister A K Antony while replying to a question in Parliament on shortage of officers in the armed forces. "There is a shortage of 11,119 officers in Indian Army, 1,359 officers in Indian...

BY : PolskiRadio Polish soldiers will begin training in India, particularly taking advantage of the high-altitude training available in the region near the Himalaya mountains. General Mieczyslaw Stachowiak of the Polish Army states that Polish helicopter pilots in particular can benefit...

What do you all think should Indian army's role be in politics? Should the Army step in on its own when mob rule becomes more powerful than rule of law? Or should the constitution be designed so as to have clauses which enables the army legally to protect it when politicians fail similar to...

by : TOI The Army has launched a global hunt for a "massive" induction of "mini" and "micro" spy drones for short-range surveillance and intelli gence-gathering missions as well as detection of NBC (nuclear, biological, chemical) contaminants in the battlefield. Interestingly, the Army...

Notwithstanding Pakistan's vociferous protests, the Indian army on Wednesday launched a civilian mountaineering and trekking expedition to the forbidding Siachen Glacier for the second year in a row. The 21-day expedition is meant to show to the international community that Indian troops hold...

The 1.5-million personnel of the armed forces will not be a happy lot this festive season, as their revised pay scales are expected to be paid only in November. They will take home, salaries under the old pay scales this month, but would get a part of the 40 per cent arrears under the 6th...

BY : Merinews THERE IS a shortage of over 11,000 officers in the Indian Army. Lieutenant General Thomas Mathew told the media in a recruitment rally at Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala on September 26. He expressed satisfaction at the tremendous turnout at the recruitment rally for soldiers...

Today Indian Army is functioning with 12000 officers less, Indian Air Force with 1124 officers less and Indian navy with 429 officers less. Current Army Chief General Deepak Kapoor has even talked about conscription as an option on a future date if things do not improve. Career in Armed Forces...

by : ANI Keeping in view that the re-fixation of pay and allowances and consequent calculation of arrears may take some time, the Government has decided to make ad-hoc payment of arrears for the current year to all ranks of the services at the earliest. The proposal received the sanction...