The centre has decided to install Radioactive Detection Equipment (RDE) at all eight Integrated Check Posts (ICPs) on international borders with Pakistan, Bangladesh, Myanmar, and Nepal, to check the smuggling of radioactive materials. This is a significant step amidst the current situation in Afghanistan and Pakistan and follows a nearly two-year-long exercise…
The Ministry of Defence (MoD) issued a request for information (RFI) in a bid to lease or acquire three to four Mine Countermeasure Vessels (MMCV) from a foreign government for the Indian Navy. The RFI mentioned that the MCMVs should be able to locate, classify, and neutralize all types of ground and…
Intelligence agencies say at least six groups of terrorists have seeped into India through borders in the Kashmir valley. Inputs by several agencies are now being matched by the multi-Agency Centre. Indications suggest that at least 25-30 terrorists have been keeping various security forces engaged for the last one month.…
The United States has pulled all its troops out of Afghanistan, finishing its prolonged war to cries of shame at home and celebratory gunfire from its victorious Taliban enemies in Kabul. The last batch of the American troops flew out of the Kabul airport on Monday night. Taliban militia quickly…
Rifleman Shive Kumar was born to Shri Somnath and belonged to Karoor village of Kishtwar Tehsil in the Doda District of Jammu & Kashmir. He was recruited into the army in 2005. He joined 15 JAK LI of the J&K light infantry regiment. After serving with his parent unit for a few…
The Border Security Force (BSF) will begin a pilot project to handle the shifting sand dunes on the international border (IB) adjoining Jaisalmer. Under this pilot project, local saplings and stubble grass will be grown in one square kilometer area. As per BSF, due to the strong dust storms and…
A terrorist was shot dead by the Indian Army troops while trying to infiltrate along the LoC in Poonch district early on Monday, a defence spokesman said. Jammu-based Defence Public Relation Officer Lt Col Devender Anand said that an operation is underway in the area. “In the early hours of August 30, terrorists from…
The Indian Army on Sunday said that the security situation in the Kashmir valley is under control and there is nothing to worry about the fallout of the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan. The General Officer Commanding of 15 Corps, also known as the Chinar Corps, Lt Gen D P Pandey,…
A US airstrike on Sunday hit a vehicle carrying several suicide bombers from Afghanistan’s Islamic State before they could attack the ongoing American military evacuation at Kabul International Airport, officials said. The airstrike came after a historic airlift by the US that saw tens of thousands evacuated from Kabul international…
Captain Hemant Prem Kumar was born on 29th October 1974 to Lt Col Joseph Prem Kumar and Mrs. Priscilla. He hailed from Pune in Maharashtra. He was commissioned on 5th September 1997 into the 15 Jat battalion of the Jat Regiment. In 2000, Captain Hemant Prem Kumar’s unit was deployed…
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