New Delhi: Unhappy over the initial report, Defence Minister AK Antony has asked Army to take immediate "corrective" steps to see that incidents like the clash between jawans and officers at a firing range near the India-China boundary in Nyoma, Ladakh do not recur. The Minister is understood to have expressed his displeasure to the Army top brass over the initial report that is said to have attempted a cover...
03:17 PM, May 13, 2012
Mumbai: Post-retirement will President Pratibha Patil, the constitutional head of the military forces, live on land that virtually homeless jawans asked to be accommodated on? Activists argue that this controversial piece of land in Khadki, Pune where the President's post-retirement bungalow is being built, could have gone to jawans, who now live in slum like conditions. The President is the last resort for justice in this country. But with the...
09:20 PM, Apr 13, 2012
New Delhi: A bulletproof jacket is meant to stand between life and death. In Maharashtra Anti-Terrorist Squad chief Hemant Karkare's final moments, the loose and ill-fitting jacket proved to be no match for the terrorist's fire. Karkare's loose fitting and sub-standard bulletproof jacket shocked the nation but sadly security personnel engaged in counter insurgency operations across the country are in no better shape. CNN-IBN has access to copies of letters...
04:38 PM, Mar 28, 2012
New Delhi: Twenty-three people including 20 jawans were injured after villagers clashed with the security forces at Salua near Kharagpur in West Midnapore district of West Bengal. Sources said that the clashes took place following allegations that the jawans were trying to molest some local women at a rural fair on Friday evening. The injured were admitted to Kharagpur hospital. ...
12:34 PM, Feb 25, 2012
Another jawan has died in the avalanche that took place in Gurez on Thursday. ...
12:14 PM, Feb 25, 2012
Twin avalanches in Jammu and Kashmir have left 17 army jawans dead. ...
08:32 AM, Feb 25, 2012
Srinagar: Three CRPF jawans were killed and another injured in a fratricide incident, the first of this year in the force, at a camp in south Kashmir's Kulgam district, police said on Sunday. Firing shots were heard inside the barrack of 18th Battalion CRPF at Kulgam town, 75 km from here, at around 10.45 PM on Saturday night, a senior police officer said. Head Constables Suman Pillay and P Sibbu...
10:40 AM, Dec 25, 2011
Noida: A court in Gautam Buddh Nagar on Friday ordered registration of a rape and robbery case against 21 police and PAC men on the complaint of a woman from Bhatta-Parsaul village where farmers had revolted against acquisition of their land. Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, who had visited Bhatta-Parsaul in May to show solidarity with the farmers of the area, had alleged that the women were raped. The order was...
10:43 PM, Nov 18, 2011
Mumbai: Actor visited the jawans in Himachal for a Diwali special show; ends up playing rugby, dodging ex-lover queries, and doing the towel dance. Last week, actor Ranbir Kapoor visited the picturesque town of Nahan in Himachal Pradesh to interact with soldiers posted at the Para Battalion, for a Diwali special episode that a national channel will air. Says a source, "Ranbir loved interacting with the soldiers. They are all...
06:35 PM, Oct 16, 2011
New Delhi: The hunger strike by over 3000 GISF jawans entered its seventh day and Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi will also embark on the second phase of his Sadbhavana mission by sitting on 24 hour-long fast in Dwarka on Sunday. The BJP says Sunday's fast will unite 6.5 crore Gujaratis just like last month's three-day event. Modi is expected to reach Dwarka by 10 am and will fast till...
07:23 AM, Oct 16, 2011
New Delhi: A Noida court has ordered Uttar Pradesh police to register case against 15 Provincial Armed Constabulary (PAC) personnel and one commandant in alleged Bhatta-Parsaul rape case. Earlier, the state government has filed a review petition against the court order seeking action against the police personnel. After a visit to the villages, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi had claimed that women had been raped, people thrashed and houses destroyed. ...
03:25 PM, Oct 10, 2011
Jammu: Two jawans allegedly committed suicide by shooting themselves with their services rifles in twin border districts of Rajouri and Poonch, officials said on Monday. Sepoy Ashok Kumar of 60 Rashtriya Rifles (RR) allegedly shot himself dead with his service rifle in an army camp at Kandi area of Rajouri district, they said. After hearing the gunshots, jawans and officers rushed to the spot and found him lying dead. Kumar...
12:41 PM, Sep 26, 2011
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The program that aired on CNN-IBN a couple of months back irked my mind. Anubha Bhonsle's "30 minutes" show focused on the Army officer's latest ...
03:05 PM, Aug 20, 2011
Raipur: Naxals gunned down five policemen in the Bastar region of Chhattisgarh on Thursday morning and made away with their weapons, police said. The Naxals opened indiscriminate gun fire at a contingent of the 16th battalion of the Chhattisgarh Armed Force (CAF) in the Jharaghati forested pocket in Narayanpur district, killing one head constable and four other constables, Additional Director General of Police Ram Niwas said. He said the CAF...
11:02 AM, Jun 09, 2011
Srinagar: Two Army jawans were injured in an encounter with security forces in south Kashmir's Pulwama district early Saturday morning. Troops of 55 Rashtriya Rifles launched a cordon cum search operation in Inder village of Pulwama district, 40 kms from here, at around 4.00 am, official sources said. As the troops closed in on the target house, the militants opened indiscriminate firing, resulting in injuries to two jawans. The injured...
09:21 AM, Apr 30, 2011
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