New Delhi: Concerns were expressed in the Rajya Sabha on the plight of jawans of paramilitary forces facing stressful working conditions, with members demanding that the Government initiate steps to improve their poor service conditions. Raising the matter during Zero Hour, SS Ahluwalia (BJP) said as many as 46,000 jawans of paramilitary forces had sought voluntary retirement in the last five years due to poor service conditions. "The main reason...
09:10 PM, Mar 26, 2012
New Delhi: Differences between the Defence Ministry and the Army Chief General VK Singh appeared to be continuing with the Ministry blocking his proposal for appointment of a top military official to the post of Director General of Assam Rifles. General Singh, who had lost a bitter battle against the Ministry in the Supreme Court on his age issue recently, had recommended the name of Lt Gen AK Choudhary, who...
11:05 AM, Mar 25, 2012
New Delhi: India and US kick-started their two week-long joint military exercise in the Rajasthan desert on Monday with their troops set to engage each other in a series of anti-terrorist and urban warfare drills. "The US Army is being represented by troops from 25 Infantry Division while the Indian side has pitched in troops from Jammu and Kashmir Rifles and Mechanised Infantry," an official said. The 170-strong member US...
03:37 PM, Mar 05, 2012
New Delhi: At least five civilians were injured in a grenade attack by militants in Kupwara district of Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday. Sources say unidentified militants attacked a picket of the Rashtriya Rifle personnel near the main bus stand in Kupwara district town, 90 km from Srinagar, around 1.45 pm, official sources said. The grenade fell short of the intended target and exploded outside the picket, resulting in injuries...
03:47 PM, Nov 01, 2011
New Delhi: Olympic champion Abhinav Bindra won the silver in the men's 10m Air Rifle event at the Asian Airgun Championship in Kuwait on Wednesday. Abhinav shot a qualification score of 594 with 98, 99, 99, 99, 100 and 99, and then followed it up with a 103.6 in the finals to claim the silver. Another Indian, Satyendra Singh, won the bronze with a score of 696.7 (593+103.7), while Gagan...
08:14 PM, Oct 19, 2011
Chebarkul, Russia: Russia has abandoned new purchases of its popular AK-74 automatic rifle, its top general said on Tuesday, dismantling another symbol of Soviet military might as the army pushes through painful reforms. Russia plans on spending some 20 trillion roubles ($617 billion) by 2020 in order to modernize its armed forces, refurbishing its armaments with new guns and rockets, submarines and aircraft. Based on the more prevalent AK-47, the...
09:06 AM, Sep 29, 2011
Seoul: South Korean troops fired at a commercial aircraft flying near the tense sea border with North Korea, misidentifying it as one of the communist North's jet fighters, but no damage occurred, local news media reported on Saturday. The Yonhap news agency, quoting a military source, said two marine corps soldiers guarding the waters off the South's western city of Incheon, fired their K-2 rifles for about 10 minutes at...
09:42 AM, Jun 18, 2011
Jammu: A Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) militant was killed in a fierce gunbattle with security forces in border district of Poonch in Jammu and Kashmir, officials said here on Tuesday. Acting on an information about the presence of militants in Poonch district's Soni-top forests in Baflaiz -Dera-ki-Gali belt troops of 18 Rashtriya Rifles and police launched a search operation in the area on Monday night, Defence PRO S N Acharya said. During...
02:41 PM, May 24, 2011
Srinagar: A police sub-inspector and an Army jawan were killed in a fierce gunbattle with militants on Tuesday in Tral town in south Kashmir, police officials said. Police assisted by troops of 42 Rashtriya Rifles launched a search operation in the Dadsar village in Tral, 35 km from here, following a tip-off about the presence of militants there, they said. As the security forces entered the house where the militants...
05:41 PM, Apr 05, 2011
New Delhi: Col Rahul Pandey, who deceased Captain Sumit Kohli's mother Veena Kohli holds responsible for her son's death, defended himself on Saturday saying that both forensic examinations conducted on his body that he committed suicide. "Both the reports have concluded that the death was due to the bullet injury. It is quite possible that the medical regiment office could have made a mistake. But subsequently, when the civil medical...
05:42 PM, Aug 28, 2010
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