New Delhi: Post-mortem on the bodies of the five Indian peacemakers, who were killed in South Sudan on Monday, will be conducted on Wednesday, said sources, adding that arrangements were being made to fly the bodies back to India by night. Two of the injured soldiers will also be flown back to India. They both require urgent medical treatment. Five Indian soldiers, including a Lt Colonel, were killed and five,...
12:35 PM, Apr 10, 2013
New Delhi: Post-mortem on the bodies of the Army personnel, who were killed in South Sudan on Monday, will be conducted on Wednesday, said sources, adding that arrangements were being made to fly the bodies back to India. Five Indian soldiers, including a Lt Colonel, were killed and four others were injured during a UN peacekeeping mission in South Sudan when their 32-member convoy was attacked on Monday. The deceased...
11:53 AM, Apr 10, 2013
New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday expressed anguish over the killing of five Indian army personnel during a UN peacekeeping mission in South Sudan. "I pay tributes to our brave soldiers," Singh said in his condolence message to the bereaved families. A Lt Colonel was among the five army personnel killed on Tuesday when their 32-member convoy came under attack in Gurmuck in the volatile state of Jonglei,...
11:15 AM, Apr 10, 2013
New Delhi: Post-mortem on the bodies of the five Army personnel, who were killed in South Sudan on Monday when their UN peacekeeping convoy was attacked, is expected to be carried out on Wednesday, said sources, adding that arrangements were being made to fly the bodies back to India. Meanwhile, the United States has condemned the killing of the Indian peacemakers and applauded India as a leading supporter of the...
09:37 AM, Apr 10, 2013
New Delhi: Five Indian soldiers, part of the peacekeeping force, escorting a United Nations convoy in South Sudan have been killed in an ambush by Sudanese rebels. The five killed includes a Lt Colonel. Four other soldiers have also been injured in the incident, the Ministry of External Affairs confirmed on Tuesday. External Affairs ministry spokesman Syed Akbaruddin wrote on social networking site Twitter that, "The Indian Embassy is in...
05:18 PM, Apr 09, 2013
Barrackpore: Army Chief Gen Bikram Singh on Sunday said there is "peace and tranquility" along the Line of Actual Control with China. "There is no problem. There is peace and tranquility on the Sino-India border," he told reporters Barrackpore in reply to a query. Singh's statement came a day ahead of the bi-annual Army commanders' conference in Delhi starting on Monday. The conference will be attended by the six operational...
04:30 AM, Apr 08, 2013
Mathura: The wife of slain soldier Lance Naik Hemraj was duped of Rs 10 lakh on Friday in the presence of her brother-in-law and a relative near a petrol pump in the outskirts of Kosi town area. In her complaint, Dharmvati, the widow of Hemraj said that one Amit Kumar, who claimed that he was an Army officer and sent by the Army Headquarters, approached her at her native Shernagar...
07:50 AM, Apr 06, 2013
New Delhi: After a 27-year-long innings, the Indian Army is bidding goodbye to the iconic Maruti Gypsy - all 30,000 of them in its fleet. The Army is expected to try out new vehicles. Army sources told CNN-IBN that the force plans to replace the Gypsy with more powerful vehicles in the 800 kilogram class. The Gypsy may be replaced by the Tata Safari or Mahindra Scorpio - vehicles meant...
08:59 AM, Apr 05, 2013
A grievously injured Indian Army soldier was found with both his eyes gouged out in Akhnoor district of Jammu on Wednesday. The Rashtriya Rifles soldier claimed that he had been abducted eight to ten days back. The Army said it could not interrogate jawan Rajesh Dutt because of the condition he was in. It, however, has ruled out a terror angle. ...
10:00 PM, Apr 03, 2013
Life size statues of Field Marshal SHFJ Manekshaw would be installed in Delhi and Wellington near Udhagamandalam as part of the 100th birthday celebrations of the former chief of the Indian Army, a top army official said on Wednesday. ...
02:08 PM, Apr 03, 2013
"In the army it's the habitual malingerers, malcontents and rogues who deliver in combat," said the young colonel. In his view, many of the jawans ...
04:31 PM, Mar 26, 2013
The Indian Army has announced disciplinary action against the Commanding Officer and three other officers of the Ladakh-based artillery regiment in Nyoma in connection with a revolt by soldiers there in April 2012. ...
03:25 PM, Mar 25, 2013
In a good will gesture, the Indian Army on Sunday handed over two teenagers, who had crossed over this side of the border, to the Pakistan Army at a flag meeting in Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir. ...
10:41 PM, Mar 24, 2013
The "time is not ripe" for withdrawing the Armed Forces Special Powers Act from the Kashmir valley, Indian Army chief general Bikram Singh said here on Friday. He also noted that the proposed mountain strike corps was in an advanced stage of finalisation. Referring to the AFSPA as an enabler, Gen Singh said it should stay. "The time is not right at the moment to tamper with the framework," he...
08:52 PM, Mar 15, 2013
Does the attack on CRPF prove that AFSPA is still required in Kashmir? Lt Gen. (retd) BS Jaswal, former Army Commander, Northern Command, Indian Army, joined IBNLive readers for an interaction on the issue. ...
06:47 PM, Mar 14, 2013
An Army Court of Inquiry into the clash between officer and soldiers of an armoured unit in Samba sector of Jammu and Kashmir has ordered the termination of services of five jawans. The inquiry also called for administrative action against four officers, five JCOs and disciplinary action against three JCOs. ...
08:23 PM, Mar 13, 2013
"Khwaja wants him to come" was how External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid on Saturday welcomed Pakistan Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf in Jaipur on way to Ajmer for his pilgrimage. Both the leaders shook hands and greeted each other warmly before going for lunch at the Rambagh Palace Hotel in Jaipur. ...
02:32 PM, Mar 09, 2013
Seeking to provide a close-to-real battlefield situation for its troops to train, the Indian Army is working on a Rs 40-crore plan towards modernising infrastructure at two of its main field firing ranges in Pokharan in Rajasthan and Babina in Madhya Pradesh. ...
06:43 AM, Mar 08, 2013
A 25-year-old man was killed and four were injured in firing allegedly by security forces during protests in Baramulla town of north Kashmir on Tuesday. ...
11:12 PM, Mar 05, 2013
Main opposition Peoples Democratic Party on Tuesday said it would bring an adjournment motion in the state assembly on Wednesday to discuss the Baramulla firing incident. The adjournment motion would seek suspension of normal business to discuss the situation arising out of the killing of a youth in Baramulla, a PDP spokesman said here. ...
10:53 PM, Mar 05, 2013
