World's first high-altitude para sports centre to come up in Leh; focus on 2028 ParalympicsLadakh will soon be home to the world's first high-altitude para sports centre. The centre is a collaboration between LAHDC and AMF. It wil...
12 Nov, 2024, 02.08 PM IST
Lieutenant General Ram Chander Tiwari assumes charge of Eastern CommandLieutenant General Ram Chander Tiwari assumed the position of General Officer Commanding-in-Chief of the Eastern Command. Before taking on ...
02 Jan, 2024, 09.06 PM IST
India's first-ever SAI NCOE for MTB and BMX to be set up in ShimlaHimachal Pradesh, thus, became the torchbearer of MTB and BMX training in India and a possible venue for future World Championships for the...
24 Mar, 2022, 04.51 PM IST
Lt Gen RC Tiwari takes over as General Officer Commanding of Spear CorpsAccording to the press release from Defence Ministry, the General is an Infantry Officer and was commissioned in the Kumaon Regiment of the...
03 Mar, 2022, 09.32 AM IST
India’s first Chief of Defence Staff, General Bipin Rawat no moreGeneral Rawat was on his way from the Sulur IAF Station to the Defence Services Staff College in Wellington in Coonoor when the IAF Mi-17V5...
08 Dec, 2021, 07.18 PM IST
Standoff clashes with China: 20 ITBP personnel honoured with gallantry medalsThe central paramilitary is deployed shoulder-to-shoulder with the Army as part of its primary mandate to guard the 3,488 km-long icy Line ...
24 Oct, 2021, 12.13 PM IST
Central government ready to set up 'High Altitude Sports Training Centre' near Dharamsala: Thakur"The central government is ready to set up a 'National High Altitude Sports Training Centre' near Dharamsala, if the state government provi...
22 Aug, 2021, 01.17 PM IST
India's Amit Khatri wins silver in 10km race walk at World U-20 Athletics MeetPaul McGrath of Spain won the bronze medal with a timing of 42:26.11 minutes. Both gold and bronze medal winners recorded their personal be...
21 Aug, 2021, 10.44 PM IST
Independence Day: 20 ITBP troops awarded medals for bravely fighting Chinese PLA in LadakhThere are two President's Police Medal for Gallantry (PPMG), 628 Police Medal for Gallantry (PMG), 88 President's police medal for distingu...
14 Aug, 2021, 02.40 PM IST
Lt Gen Manjinder Singh takes over as Western Command Chief of StaffLt Gen Singh is an alumnus of the Sainik School Kapurthala, National Defence Academy and the Indian Military Academy. He was commissioned i...
01 Apr, 2021, 04.12 PM IST
Republic Day: 17 ITBP officials get police medalsThe about 90,000-personnel strong force is primarily tasked with guarding the 3,488-km long Line of Actual Control (LAC) with China that ru...
25 Jan, 2021, 05.05 PM IST
In a first, special soldier medals for ITBP canines, horsesThe initiative has been taken by Sino-India border guarding force ITBP which has instituted an 'Animal Transport' and a 'K9' (canine) medal...
14 Jul, 2018, 10.57 AM IST
Govt announces 'High Altitude medal' for border troops"We have decided that now all jawans and officers who work at a height of 9,000 ft and above will be awarded with the high altitude medal,"...
13 Jul, 2018, 10.54 PM IST
Army delay in delivering medals forces soldiers to buy replicasThe director of Sainik Welfare, Colonel P Ramesh Kumar (Retd), admitted that there was delay in giving recipients their medal after their n...
11 Jul, 2018, 04.22 PM IST
Army dogs to walk down Rajpath this Republic Day Parade after 26 yearsIndian army dogs, who have saved the lives of numerous soldiers in counter-terrorism and counter-insurgency operations, will march down the...
11 Jul, 2018, 01.43 PM IST
Leander Paes says he's geared up to win Rio Olympics medalPaes, who signed as the brand ambassador for the IDBI Federal Kolkata Marathon, said he was focussed mainly on performance at the Olympics.
23 Dec, 2015, 06.16 PM IST
- Lt Gen Chachra takes over as Army's Northern Command chief
Lt Gen Sanjiv Chachra today took over as chief of Udhampur-based Army's Northern Command.
01 Jul, 2013, 09.40 PM IST