CHENNAI/THENI/VELLORE: Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa on Wednesday laid the foundation stone for the memorial of the British engineer, Colonel John Pennycuick, who built the Mullaiperiyar dam, the lifeline of farmers of the Southern districts.She laid the foundation stone through video-conferencing from Fort St. George for the memorial which would cost of Rs 1.25 crore in the land owned by Tamil Nadu Generation and Distribution Corporation (TAN-GEDCO) complex at Lower Camp...
08:26 AM, Apr 26, 2012
Dehra Dun: A woman army officer has filed a case against a Lieutenant Colonel in Dehra Dun, alleging that he sexually harassed her on the pretext of marrying her. The woman officer, a Lieutenant in the Army Hospital, filed a police complaint against the Lieutenant Colonel, posted in Uttarkashi, in the Cantt police station alleging that he cheated and sexually harassed her over a period of time after promising to...
06:15 PM, Apr 23, 2012
Chennai: A retired Army officer has been sentenced to life imprisonment for shooting dead 13-year-old Dilson in Chennai in July, 2011. Lieutenant Colonel (retired) Kandasamy Ramraj, who was pronounced guilty by a Chennai court on Friday, has also been convicted under the Arms Act for possessing a gun whose licence had expired. He has been sentenced to three years of jail under the Arms Act and also one year of...
12:07 PM, Apr 20, 2012
New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has begun its investigations into the bribe allegations made by Army Chief General VK Singh. Sources have told CNN-IBN that a team of CBI officers is expected to meet General Singh when he returns from an official tour in Srinagar on Friday. The CBI has begun its investigations into the bribe allegations. A tape of the alleged incident, whose veracity is to...
10:15 AM, Mar 28, 2012
New Delhi: A former Army officer claims that a tape recording of the bribe offer made to Army Chief General VK Singh exists. According to Colonel (Retired) RSN Singh the tape has recorded the voice of a man who says that Army chiefs before General VK Singh have accepted money. In the tape a man reportedly tells Army Chief General VK SIngh that Army chiefs after him will also be...
04:12 PM, Mar 27, 2012
Chennai: Amid the simmering Mullaperiar dam row, Tamil Nadu government on Sunday announced setting up of a memorial for British engineer Col Penny Cuick, who had constructed the dam at Lower Camp in Theni district over 116 years ago. "I am happy to announce that a memorial to thankfully remember Cuick will be built at a cost of Rs one crore and over 2500 sq ft at the Tamil Nadu...
02:01 PM, Jan 08, 2012
New Delhi: In what can snowball into a major controversy, the Indian Army has ordered a Court of Inquiry (CoI) against a Lieutenant Colonel who was allegedly caught in a honeytrap by a woman in Bangladesh and was later blackmailed by Pakistan's ISI. The Army Headquarters have held back his name from the media. The officer was allegedly asked by the ISI to spy for Pakistan. The officer reported the...
08:04 AM, Dec 21, 2011
Cricketer MS Dhoni and Olympic gold medalist shooter Abhinav Bindra were pipped in by the Army Chief Gen VK Singh. Dhoni and Bindra have been commissioned as Honorary Lt Colonel in the Territorial Army. Dhoni and Bindra have been bestowed the honour for their outstanding contribution in the field of sports and their commitment to the Army on various occasions. ...
06:29 PM, Nov 01, 2011
Retired Colonel Shivraj turns citizen journalist to make Delhi poster free. ...
08:41 PM, Jul 30, 2011
Jaipur: The Rajasthan High Court has turned down the state government's petition for five per cent reservation to the Gujjar community. The court while turning down the petition also directed the state government to quantify the data in a year. Reacting to the High Court's observation Gujjar leader Colonel Kirori Singh Bainsla said that he respected the court's order. "Our fight is with the government. We will continue our agitation,"...
11:45 AM, Dec 22, 2010
Lt Colonel Satyendra Verma jumped off a 235 metre tall TV tower in Delhi on Friday. ...
03:02 PM, Oct 29, 2010
New Delhi: The mystery behind the death of Indian Army officer Captain Sumit Kohli is yet to be solved. While Army claims that Captain Kohli committed suicide, his family has been maintaining that the young officer was murdered. Captain Kohli's mother Veena Kohli met Defence Minister AK Antony on Saturday in New Delhi and insisted that her son didn't commit suicide but was murdered. She also demanded her son's post-mortem...
11:22 AM, Aug 28, 2010
The anti-terrorist operation was launched by the Army on inputs about infiltration of a group of terrorists. ...
11:31 AM, Jul 15, 2010
The 40-year-old Indian Army officer was hit by a bullet in a counter insurgency operation in Kashmir. ...
08:49 PM, Jun 24, 2010
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