The Air Force has moved its critical frontline assets including the Sukhoi-30MKI, Mirage 2000 and Jaguar fighter aircraft fleet to advanced positions where they can fly in at a very short notice to carry out operations. Srinagar: Military chopper and fighter jet activity was Friday seen in the skies in Leh amid the ongoing standoff between […]
The Narendra Modi government’s responses to the deaths of 40 CRPF troopers in last year’s Pulwama terror attack and the killing of 20 soldiers by the Chinese army on Monday night present a contrast. A day after the Pulwama massacre — and two months before a general election — the bodies of the CRPF jawans […]
NEW DELHI: Even as the Indian Air Force (IAF) moved its assets including fighter aircraft to forward bases and airfields in view of the ongoing dispute with China, its chief RKS Bhadauria was on a two-day hush-hush visit to the Leh and Srinagar airbases, which would be the most critical for any operations to be carried out […]
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday said it is now clear that the Chinese attack in Galwan valley in Ladakh was “pre-planned” and that the government was “fast asleep” while the martyred jawans paid the price. Gandhi’s attack comes ahead of the all-party meeting convened by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday evening to discuss the situation […]
The Indian government has tried to respond to the border dispute with China by training its guns on trade. The idea resonating in Indian streets is that Indians should boycott Chinese goods and thus “teach China a lesson”. Visuals of Indians breaking and burning their fully functional Chinese appliances such as TVs have been doing the rounds in social media. […]
India on Friday added 13,586 new COVID-19 cases for the first time in a single day, pushing the tally to 3,80,532, while the death toll rose to 12,573 with 336 new fatalities, according to the Union Health Ministry data. In some positive news, the number of recoveries crossed the two lakh mark and stands at 2,04,710, while there are […]
A Parliamentary panel that discussed bilateral ties after the Doklam crisis in 2017 had warned the Centre that it would always be better to have a sense of “healthy skepticism” while dealing with China, and had expressed discontent over the neighbouring country’s “deliberate encirclement policy of India”. The remarks from the Standing Committee on External Affairs […]
A total of 76 personnel of the Indian Army were brutally assaulted by the Chinese army in the recent violent face-off in Glawan Valley in Ladakh, military sources quoted by PTI news agency said. Of the injured, 18 were seriously wounded while 58 of them sustained minor injuries. They said 18 personnel are undergoing treatment […]
The Chinese army on Thursday evening returned from its custody 10 Indian soldiers, including two officers, involved in Monday’s violent face-off in the Galwan River Valley. These soldiers were returned on the LAC after hectic negotiations between the two sides, including three rounds of talks at the Major General level from Tuesday to Thursday, officials […]
The Ministry of External Affairs Thursday clarified that no Indian Army personnel were missing in action following Monday’s night’s violent showdown with Chinese troops in the Galwan valley of Ladakh. “This has been clarified by the Army today afternoon that there are no Indian troops missing in action,” MEA spokesperson Anurag Srivastava said while replying […]