The Punjab and Haryana High Court on Wednesday issued a notice to the Ministry of Defence and the Ministry of Law on a Public Interest Litigation. The PIL filed by Army Reserve Officer Maj Navdeep Singh who is also the first president of the Armed Forces Tribunal Bar Association states that excessive control of Ministry of Defence over appointments, infrastructure, rule-making and functioning of the Armed Forces Tribunal, being the...
08:55 PM, May 30, 2012
New Delhi: The first national security review since Kargil has been submitted to the Prime Minister. CNN-IBN has accessed the Naresh Chandra Committee report that reviewed India's future security needs. The report submitted to the Prime Minister last week is the first security review in ten years. The report has suggested the creation of a permanent post of Chairman of Chiefs of Staff without affecting the autonomy of the three...
01:25 PM, May 26, 2012
New Delhi: Defence Minister AK Antony on Monday defended the Tatra deal in Parliament saying that the trucks were bought mainly due to operational needs of the Army and that not a single Tatra truck had been purchased post 2008. Seeking to turn the tables on the Opposition, Antony said the present government had not purchased a single new Tatra truck and the current deliveries were being made as per...
12:04 PM, May 07, 2012
New Delhi: Defence Secretary Shashi Kant Sharma told the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Defence on Monday that 'The Indian Express' story on the movement of two Army units towards New Delhi was wrong inference, conjectures, and no permission was required from Ministry of Defence for such routine exercise. Sharma, who appeared before the panel on Monday, called the movement by a mechanised infantry unit from Hisar and the Para unit...
12:40 PM, Apr 09, 2012
Villavicencio: Colombia's main rebel group freed what it says were its last 10 military and police captives, a goodwill gesture that President Juan Manuel Santos praised but called insufficient to merit a peace dialogue. The men had spent between 12 and 14 years in jungle prisons, captured with the leftist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia was at the height of its military strength. But Latin America's oldest and most potent...
01:59 PM, Apr 03, 2012
New Delhi: Army Chief General VK Singh on Friday replied to the Central Bureau Of Investigation (CBI) and confirmed the bribe offer by a lobbyist to clear the supply of a tranche of sub-standard vehicle for the Army. General Singh also says in the response that he will give more details soon. Surprisingly, no bribe amount has been mentioned in the complaint Singh, who had made the allegation in a...
08:33 PM, Mar 30, 2012
New Delhi: The government on Monday made it clear that it has no proposal to induct women in combat roles in the defence forces, including as fighter pilots in the Indian Air Force. Parliament was also informed that there has been a 67 per cent increase in the recruitment of women officers into the army, navy and air force in the last three years. "There is no proposal to induct...
02:33 AM, Mar 20, 2012
New Delhi: Trouble seems to be brewing up for Army chief General VK Singh yet again as the Chandigarh bench of the Armed Forces Tribunal is all set to hear a petition against him, filed by Major General TS Handa. Maj Gen Handa filed an appeal against Singh saying his "annual confidential report" had been "spoilt" as he could not change the Army chief's date of birth. General Singh is...
08:56 AM, Feb 14, 2012
Kolkata: Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah said on Saturday he would continue to press for repeal of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act "which is a very important issue". "This is a very important issue for Jammu and Kashmir and that is why I am pressing for it. I will continue to press for it," Abdullah told reporters on the sidelines of the Kolkata Literary Meet that coincided...
07:57 PM, Jan 28, 2012
New Delhi: The Indian Army has been severely criticised by the Supreme Court for not deciding if it wants to take action against its officers involved in the Pathribal encounter case. The apex court on Monday issued a notice to the Defence Secretary and the Home Secretary in the March 25, 2000 encounter at Pathribal in South Kashmir in which seven people were gunned down for allegedly being Lashker-e-Toiba terrorists....
04:39 PM, Jan 23, 2012
Akhnoor: Terming the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) as a matter of national security, an Army commander said on Sunday although the Army and the Government have their own takes on the issue, solutions are likely to emerge after discussions at the top level. "Let me clarify that AFSPA is a matter of national security. We have our own stand while the Government has its own take (on the...
10:09 AM, Jan 16, 2012
Srinagar: PDP president Mehbooba Mufti on Tuesday alleged that Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah had raked up the AFSPA issue to divert attention from the death of a ruling National Conference worker in police custody last year. "Omar took up the issue of AFSPA to divert attention from custodial killing of Mohammad Yousuf Shah," she said. The NC worker died on September 30 last year in police custody...
05:56 PM, Jan 10, 2012
New Delhi: Social networking sites such as Facebook have emerged as the new "honey trap" set by enemy spies prompting the government to ask senior officials of paramilitary and armed forces to stop flaunting their career information or at best stay away from such web sites. Cases of such cyber espionage have come to light where officials of paramilitary forces posted in sensitive areas were found chatting with spies from...
11:21 AM, Dec 19, 2011
Barmer: The Indian army is often described as an unwieldy peasant army, ponderous and heavy footed. However, the India army is also looking at transforming into a more flexible and lethal force. "We are looking at an army which is more lethal, an army which is more agile, an army which is technically superior and can work in a totally network-centric environment with all the services," said Army Chief Gen...
09:28 AM, Dec 10, 2011
Cairo: Egypt's military rulers on Thursday apologised for deaths of protesters demanding civilian control and vowed to punish the culprits, amid a temporary ceasefire following fierce street battles that claimed at least 39 lives and left over 3,000 people injured in six days of unrest. "The Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) presents its regrets and deep apologies for the deaths of martyrs from among Egypt's loyal sons during...
05:10 PM, Nov 24, 2011
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