New Delhi: General Bikram Singh, a veteran infantry officer, on Thursday took over as the 25th Chief of the Indian Army succeeding General VK Singh whose 26-month tenure was mired in controversies. 59-year-old General Bikram Singh will have a tenure of two years and three months in the top post. Prior to his appointment as Army Chief, General Bikram was commanding the Kolkata-based Eastern Army Command. He has held several...
12:28 PM, May 31, 2012
New Delhi: Parliament House complex will soon be guarded by a special commando-trained squad of CRPF which will be armed with modern weapons and communication gadgets. The elite squad will be called the Parliament Duty Group (PDG) and this is the first time that the historic building will have a system of "uniform armed protection" for itself, a CRPF officer said. The Union Home Ministry had recently approved the creation...
04:39 PM, May 01, 2012
Mumbai: Air India Express, the low-cost international arm of Air India, plans to hire around 40 expat commanders including instructors and examiners following the implementation of the new flight and duty time limitation and rest requirements. The hiring has been necessitated due to a new Civil Aviation Requirement (CAR), which bars pilots from operating two consecutive night flights, sources said. "After the new CAR, the rest period for the pilots...
04:38 AM, Apr 02, 2012
Washington: India, which is one of the top donors for Afghanistan post 9/11, is poised to play a very important role as the international community prepares to withdraw troops from this war-torn country, a top American commander has told lawmakers. Testifying before a Congressional Committee, General John Allen, Commander of US and NATO forces in Afghanistan told lawmakers on Tuesday that India is not only a major economic donor but...
08:17 AM, Mar 21, 2012
Abbottabad: Pakistani authorities have reduced the house where Osama bin Laden lived for years before he was killed by US commandos to rubble, destroying a concrete symbol of the country's association with one of the world's most reviled men. Workers completed the demolition job in the garrison town of Abbottabad in northwest Pakistan on Monday. The al-Qaida leader moved into the three-story house in 2005. Acting on intelligence gathered by...
12:12 PM, Feb 27, 2012
Lt Gen KT Parnaik said that the search operations is continuing in Kashmir despite the bad weather. ...
01:20 PM, Feb 25, 2012
New Delhi: Ironic it may sound, elite anti-naxal commando squad CoBRA, which was named after one of the most venomous reptiles, is now facing incidence of snake bites among its personnel posted in deep jungles. Ten battalions of the Commando Battalion for Resolute Action (CoBRA) are deployed in the dense jungles of Odisha, Chhattisgarh, West Bengal, Jharkhand and Bihar to undertake intelligence based anti-Maoist operations and provide quality assistance to...
05:57 PM, Feb 24, 2012
London: Directer-producer Steven Spielberg is set to sign on to direct the remake of 'Ten Commandments'. The new version of the original 1956 film, which is regarded as one of the greatest movies in Hollywood history, will be produced by Warner Bros, reported Daily Mail online. Spielberg is hoping to give his version of the story of Jewish prophet Moses a far different spin to the 1956 version. "He is...
06:38 PM, Jan 27, 2012
Mogadishu: Pirates moved an American hostage at least three times in 24 hours and threatened on Thursday to kill him after US Navy SEALs rescued an American and a Dane in a bold, dark-of-night raid that raises questions about whether other Western captives are now in greater danger. "If they try again, we will all die together," warned Hassan Abdi, a Somali pirate connected to the gang holding the American,...
03:28 AM, Jan 27, 2012
Jammu: The Army's Northern Command will get the highest number of gallantry awards, including one Ashok Chakra and three Kriti Chakras, on the occasion of the Republic day this year. The awards announced on occasion of the Republic Day 2012 once again saw the highest number of gallantry awards being conferred to the troops in Northern Command", PRO (Def) Ministry of Defence, HQ Northern Command, Lt Col Rajesh Kalia said...
07:12 AM, Jan 26, 2012
Mogadishu: US special operations forces swooped into Somalia on Wednesday and rescued two hostage aid workers after killing their nine kidnappers, a rare and daring raid in the Horn of Africa nation to free foreign captives. American Jessica Buchanan, 32, and Poul Hagen Thisted, 60, of Denmark, humanitarian aid workers for a Danish demining group, were rescued three months after they were kidnapped on October 25 in the town of...
04:36 AM, Jan 26, 2012
Islamabad: A day after reports that Pakistani Taliban leader Hakimullah Mehsud was killed in a US drone attack in North Waziristan, the militant group has said he is alive and the speculation about his death was a ruse to locate his whereabouts. Unnamed Pakistani security and intelligence officials were quoted by a section of the media on Sunday as saying that Mehsud had died in a drone attack in Dattakhel...
02:30 PM, Jan 16, 2012
Bangalore: The more the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) asserts that the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) does not involve itself in its internal affairs, the greater the chances that it does - and publicly. In Karnataka, the only state the BJP is ruling in southern India, it is the RSS that is calling the shots, and not the party "high command", in disciplining the warring groups in the state unit. With...
01:56 PM, Jan 16, 2012
Hyderabad: Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram on Monday inaugurated a regional hub of the elite anti-terror National Security Guard (NSG) here. The hub has come up at a cost of Rs.37.96 crore on 22 acres of land at Tirmulghery in Secunderabad, Hyderabad's twin city. Speaking on the occasion, Chidambaram said the NSG were being provided modern weapons and the world-class training to thwart terrorist attacks and hijacking of airplanes. He...
11:23 AM, Dec 06, 2011
Jammu: The Indian Army on Wednesday put its foot down on the issue of revocation of AFSPA, telling Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah that the security forces were required in the militancy-ridden state. At the meeting of the unified command in Jammu, the army took a tough stand saying that a partial repeal of the AFSPA, as suggested by Omar, would create terror sanctuaries in the state. Omar...
09:00 PM, Nov 09, 2011
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