Shimla: Rescuers on Friday failed to resume a search operation owing to inclement weather near the Tibet border with Himachal Pradesh, where a snow avalanche killed a soldier while five others went missing this week. As the searches entered the third day, the authorities suspected that the chances of survival[Read More…]
Tag: Soldiers
Is decriminalisation of Section 377 applicable to Indian armed forces?
The historic Supreme Court verdict over Section 377, which decriminalized homosexuality in India, has been hailed across the nation by most, but at the same time, has brought along many loopholes. Though the verdict pronounced by five judge bench accepted homosexuality as no crime, the Armed Forces Act governing our[Read More…]
This Independence Day, we salute unsung four-legged soldiers of Indian Army
As the Independence Day is round the corner, entire nation recalls the struggle and sacrifice made by thousands of freedom fighters. The golden list is always embossed with leaders like Gandhi, Lal Bahadur Shastri, Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Mangal Pandey, and many others, but often skips to pay tribute to the[Read More…]
Indian women have evolved as able soldiers: President Kovind
More and more countries are entrusting women with greater responsibilities in their armed forces and in India too, women have evolved as able soldiers in whichever arm or service they have served in, President Ram Nath Kovind said here on Friday. Addressing the closing ceremony of the 42nd World Congress[Read More…]
Air-conditioned jackets for special forces soldiers soon: Manohar Parrikar
Former defence minister and Goa chief minister, Manohar Parrikar, on Saturday said that trials for introducing air-conditioned jackets for the Indian Special Forces soldiers are currently underway. The government is testing ‘air-conditioned’ jackets to be worn by special force soldiers who operate for long hours in hot areas. However, the[Read More…]
Air strike in Philippines kills 11 of its soldiers
An air strike on Islamist rebel killed 11 government soldiers in Philippine’s southern city, said the armed forces on Thursday. In a major blow to end the country’s bigger crisis of internal security, seven other soldiers were also wounded in the strike when two air force SF-260 dropped bombs on[Read More…]
Soldiers live at the bleeding edges of morality
Many are infuriated by the Army’s decision to honour Major Leetul Gogoi. Hordes of people are still exercised over Major Gogoi’s actions. They all seem to know his decision was wrong, but nobody is pondering over the other options he had. Soldiers live at the bleeding edges of morality. That[Read More…]
Shame for Indian soldiers to be ‘killed in our own territory’: Mulayam slams Jaitley
Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav lashed out at Defence Minister Arun Jaitley on Thursday saying that, it was a shame for Indian soldiers to be “killed in our own territory.” His statement comes following soldiers being killed and mutilated by Pakistan’s Border Action Team (BAT) in Krishna Ghati. The[Read More…]
Attacks on jawans: Congress women’s wing protests with bangles outside BJP office
Congress women’s wing protested on Friday outside the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) headquarter in Delhi with bangles over a recent attack that claimed lives of security personnel in Kashmir. Recently, the opposition lashed out at Union minister Smriti Irani over the “barbaric” killing and mutilation of two Indian soldiers saying,[Read More…]
BJP unable to protect soldiers or border, says Congress
The Congress Party said that the BJP is neither capable to protect the border nor the bodies of soldiers who are sacrificing their lives, while backing former defence minister AK Antony’s statement. Antony had urged the Centre to give a free rein to the Indian Army for giving ‘appropriate reply’[Read More…]
BJP hits back at Congress over soldier killing
The soldier soldiers on because he signed up to die
Two kinds of people die at regular intervals in Kashmir – soldiers and militants. The militants are driven by hatred fed by religion, with no other aim than to destroy, kill, and maim. The soldiers are driven by the duty to their profession of arms – to protect, to nurture,[Read More…]
Dismissed BSF jawan asks for government’s support
Tej Bahadur Yadav, the BSF jawan who was dismissed from his duty on Wednesday over his viral video on social media which highlighted the poor food conditions for jawans, requested the government to support him and asserted that if he did not get the support, he would move the judiciary.[Read More…]
101 soldiers, 19 airmen, 5 sailors committed suicide in 2016: Govt
As many as 348 armed forces personnel committed suicide since 2014, with the highest 276 from the army.A total of eight cases of fratricide were also reported during the period, as per details given by Minister of State for Defence Subhash Bhamre while replying to a question in the Lok[Read More…]
J&K: Three soldiers killed, four injured in a terrorists attack in Shopian
Three army soldiers were killed and 4 other were injured – two, critically in an attack by militants’ in Shopian area in south Kashmir in the early hours of Thursday morning. The army confirmed the attack. A spokesperson said that other particulars were being ascertained. One female civilian was also[Read More…]
Jawans using social platform for complaints will face action: Army Chief
Army Chief General Bipin Rawat on Sunday warned of disciplinary action against those posting grievances online rather than using official channels of redressal after two such videos was found by two jawans on social media last week. While addressing the Army Day parade at Delhi Cantonment, “A few of our[Read More…]
Indian Army launches biggest counter assault after soldier’s beheading
Just a day after Pakistani forces mutilated the body of one Indian soldier and killed two others, the Indian Army on Wednesday launched a massive counter assault along the Line of Control (LoC) in north Kashmir. According to the senior officers, it is said to be the biggest fire assault[Read More…]
I dedicate this Diwali to soldiers, says PM Modi on his Mann Ki Baat
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday dedicated this year’s Diwali to the armed forces in his monthly video address Mann Ki Baat, saying ‘we sleep peacefully because you guard our borders’. The soldiers, he said, “stand guard for us in the desert on the mountains. Someone is guarding our industry,[Read More…]
15 Pak soldiers killed in past week in retaliatory fire: BSF
The BSF on Friday said it had killed 15 Pakistani paramilitary personnel while retaliating to cross-border shelling and firing in which two Indian civilians were killed and two injured in Jammu region. Firing mortar shells and using automatic weapons, Pakistani troops targeted civilian areas and forward security posts along the[Read More…]
It’s US troops, not Indian soldiers who feature on BJP posters in Varanasi
In a major embarrassment to the BJP, a new poster of the BJP released in Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh boasted a silhouetted image of soldiers from 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), Screaming Eagles of the US armed forces. The image has also famously appeared as a banner by the famed[Read More…]