Major Ravi Vaish was born on 31st December 1978 in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh. He passed his Combined Defence Services Examination in 1999 and joined the Indian Military Academy Dehradun. He got commissioned as an infantry officer into the 5 Gorkha Rifles Regiment. After serving for a few years with his unit in…
About 260 Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) personnel were honored with Union Home Minister’s Special Operation Medal on Sunday for their exceptional service during the military standoff with PLA in eastern Ladakh. The home ministry in its notification named a total of 397 personnel from various state police and central forces…
The Indian Navy has received a P15B stealth guided-missile destroyer, a first of its kind, from Mazagaon Dock Shipbuilders on Thursday, an official statement generated said on Saturday. The construction and delivery of ‘Visakhapatnam’ is another proof of impetus given by the Indian government and the Indian Navy to the…
An officer and a soldier of the Indian Army were killed in a mysterious blast near a forward post along the LoC in the Rajouri district of Jammu and Kashmir on Saturday. Officials said that two army personnel including a lieutenant were critically injured in a blast that took place…
A joint team of the Indian Air Force (IAF) and DRDO successfully flight-tested India’s first indigenously developed Long-Range Bomb (LRB) from a Sukhoi-30 fighter jet over Balasore, Odisha. The LR Bomb with a range of 100 kilometers was fired from IAF’s Su-30 from an altitude of 10 km. The bomb has…
Three Republican US Senators said on Friday they submitted legislation to exempt India from sanctions under CAATSA for buying S 400 missile system from Russia, citing the importance of working with allies to keep a check on China. Senators Ted Cruz, Todd Young, and Roger Marshall filed a bill which…
The Joint Working Group (JWG) of India and Israel has consented to establish a task force to formulate a comprehensive 10-year action plan to identify new areas of defence cooperation, the defence ministry said on Friday. The working group of both countries also decided that a sub-working group (SWG) on defence industry cooperation would be formed…
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Thursday gave a statement that India is inching close to touching the mark of Rs 3500 crore exports in defence sector, under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Rajnath Singh attended the program “Delivering Democracy; Two Decades of Prime Minister Narendra Modi as Head of Government”, which…
Lieutenant Colonel Ajit Bhandarkar was born on 31st December 1960 to Shri U V Bhandarkar. He hailed from Bangalore. He was commissioned into 18 Madras of the Madras regiment. Later Lt Col Ajit was sent on deputation to the 25 RR Battalion, deployed in the J&K area. Service Number IC…
Indian Navy’s seventh frigate of P1135.6 class was launched at Yantar shipyard in Kaliningrad in Russia on Thursday. Indian Ambassador to Russia D Bala Venkatesh Varma also attended the launch ceremony. The ship was officially named ‘Tushil’ which means protector shield in Sanskrit, the defence ministry stated. The governments of India and…
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