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As a run up to the Independence Day Celebrations 2015, the Army  Pipe and Drum Bands have been performing  in various locations in Delhi, commencing with a display at  India Gate on 05 Aug 2015. Patriotic martial tunes were played in keeping with the solemnity of the occasion. Similar Band …

The “Pipes and Drums Band” from 27 Madras Regiment, 9 Garhwal Regiment and 3/5 Gorkha Rifles performed at the Amity University with an aim to connect the armed forces with the masses and to motivate the youth to join the forces The occasion provided the students a unique opportunity to …

The body of Captain Prem Kumar Patil, 28, who died in Poonch in Jammu and Kashmir two days ago during patrol duty, was brought to Vapi in Valsad district on Sunday. The cremation would take place on Tuesday in the presence of the late Indian Army officer’s family members, including …

The Indian Air Force on 6 August 2015 pressed into service its strategic airlift platforms, the C-17 Globemaster-III and the C-130 J Super Hercules, to send about 100 tonnes of food and medicines to India?s Eastern neighbour, the Republic of the Union of Myanmar, which is reeling under floods and …

DEHRADUN: Lt Gen Balwant Singh Negi today took over as the Commandant of the prestigious Indian Military Academy. He succeeds Lt Gen Manvender Singh who retired in May this year, an IMA release here said.

The existing fence consists of three rows of angle iron pickets that hold up coils of concertina wire. The height of this double-row fence varies between 2.4 m and 3.2 m. The Army will begin constructing a new fence on the Line of Control this year, which it says will …

BSF trooper Rockey emptied his entire magazine containing 40 bullets when two heavily-armed militants attacked the security convoy in Udhampur, saving the day for the force as his ultimate sacrifice safeguarded the lives of 44 unarmed personnel.

The Indian Navy has been unable to obtain heavy weight torpedoes from a Finmeccanica group company, Wass for installation on its Scorpene submarines owing to the Italian company being blacklisted in India. Wass Italy had won a contract to supply heavy weight tropedoes for the Navy’s Project 75 submarines in 2014. …

The Indian Army today celebrated 274th anniversary of the Colachel battle at a colourful fuction at the Colachal War Memorial in Kanyakumari District. Brigadier Samir Salunke, Station Commander, Pangode Military Station, Thiruvananthapuram was the Chief Guest for the event, an official release said here.

The Indian Air Force (IAF) has invited responses by 7 August from local manufacturers to its request for information (RfI) for high-mobility vehicles (HMVs), on which to mount very short-range air defence systems (VSHORADS).