Progress in Establishing Theatre Commands

More than two decades ago, as an aftermath of Operation Vijay, a recommendation was strongly echoed – jointness and integration of the defence forces. After the Rajya Sabha passed the […]

Lt Gen Manoj Katiyar Takes Charge as General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Western Command

New Delhi: Lieutenant General Manoj Kumar Katiyar on July 1 took charge as General Officer Commanding-in-Chief of the Indian Army’s Western Command. General Katiyar paid his respects at Veer Smriti […]

Vice Admiral Sanjay J. Singh, Assumes Charge As Vice Chief of the Naval Staff

New Delhi: Vice Admiral Sanjay Jasjit Singh, AVSM, NM assumed the appointment of the Vice Chief of Naval Staff on April 1, 2023. On assumption VAdm Sanjay Jasjit Singh paid […]

Vice Adm Atul Anand Takes Over as Director General Naval Operations (DGNO)

New Delhi: Vice Admiral Atul Anand, AVSM, VSM assumed charge as the Director General Naval Operations on April 1, 2023. He was commissioned on January 1, 1988 into the Executive […]

Air Marshal Sanjeev Kapoor Takes Charge as DG (Inspection and Safety)

New Delhi: Air Marshal Sanjeev Kapoor took charge as Director General (Inspection and Safety) [DG(I&S)] of Indian Air Force at Air Headquarters here on May 1. The Air Marshal is […]

Rear Admiral Vikram Menon takes over as FOGA & FONA

New Delhi: Rear Admiral Vikram Menon, VSM took over duties of Flag Officer Commanding Goa Area (FOGA) and Flag Officer Naval Aviation (FONA) from Rear Admiral Philipose G Pynumootil on […]

Gen Manoj Pande Takes Charge as 29th Army Chief

New Delhi: General Manoj Pande on April 30 took charge as the 29th Chief of the Army Staff. He succeeds Gen MM Naravane, who retired from service the same day. […]

Lt Gen Manoj Pande Appointed as the Next Chief of the Army Staff

New Delhi: Lt Gen Manoj C Pande, presently Vice Chief of the Army Staff, has been appointed by the Government as the next Chief of the Army Staff with effect […]

Vice Admiral Sanjay Mahindru Assume Charge as Deputy Chief of Naval Staff

New Delhi: Vice Admiral Sanjay Mahindru, AVSM, NM assumed charge as Deputy Chief of the Naval Staff on March 31, 2022. Vice Admiral Sanjay Mahindru is an alumni of the […]

Vice Admiral Ajay Kochhar Takes Charge as Commandant – National Defence Academy

New Delhi: Vice Admiral Ajay Kochhar, assumed the appointment of Commandant, National Defence Academy on April 1, 2022 from Air Marshal Sanjeev Kapoor. As an alumnus of the National Defence […]

Rear Admiral Krishna D Swaminathan Takes Charge as Western Fleet Commander

New Delhi: Rear Admiral Krishna D Swaminathan took charge on February 14 as the Fleet Commander of the Western Fleet known as the ‘Sword Arm’ of the Indian Navy. The […]

HAL Signs First MoU with IAI, Dynamatic at DefExpo 2020

Lucknow: Defence Public Sector Undertaking (DPSU) Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL), Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) and Dynamatic Technologies Limited (DTL) inked the first Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for marketing, manufacturing and […]

Is India prepared to meet threats on two fronts?

If one were to go by the picture given by a Parliamentary Committee headed by veteran BJP leader Dr Murli Manohar Joshi on ‘Preparedness of Armed Forces – Defence Production […]

General Bipin Rawat Assumes Charge of India’s First Chief of Defence Staff

New Delhi: General Bipin Rawat on January 1 assumed office of India’s first Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) and he would be the Principal Military Advisor to Defence Minister Rajnath […]

General MM Naravane Takes Charge as 28th Army Chief

New Delhi: General Manoj Mukund Naravane on December 31 took over as the 28th Chief of Army Staff helming the 1.3 million-strong force at a time India faces evolving security […]

Outgoing Army Chief General Bipin Rawat Named India’s First CDS

New Delhi: Outgoing Army Chief General Bipin Rawat has been named the country’s first Chief of Defence Staff (CDS). He will be a four star General with assuming the power […]

Air Marshal D Choudhury is New Commandant of National Defence College

New Delhi: Air Marshal D Choudhury on December 16 took charge as Commandant of National Defence College from Vice Admiral Srikant in New Delhi. Prior to this appointment, he was […]

Ready for Balakot-like Airstrike says new Air Chief

New Delhi. RKS Bhadauria who took over as the 26th Chief of Air Staff September 30 from BS Dhanoa said IAF is prepared for any threat from Pakistan and is […]

Defence Technology – An Indian Conundrum

The US has a new command called the Army Futures Command which aims to modernise the Army. It had six priorities- long range precision fire, next generation combat vehicle, future […]

IAF Chief Air Chief Marshal BS Dhanoa Receives Baton of Chairman COSC

New Delhi. Chief of the Air Staff (CAS) Air Chief Marshal Birender Singh Dhanoa received the baton of Chairman, Chiefs of Staff Committee (COSC) from outgoing Chairman COSC and Chief […]

Admiral Sunil Lanba, the 23rd Chief of the Naval Staff, Superannuates

New Delhi. Admiral Sunil Lanba, PVSM, AVSM, ADC, the 23rd Chief of the Naval Staff (CNS), relinquished command of the Indian Navy on completion of his tenure and retirement from […]

Air Marshal Rakesh Kumar Singh Bhadauria Takes Over as VCAS

New Delhi. Air Marshal Rakesh Kumar Singh Bhadauria took over as Vice Chief of the Air Staff (VCAS) on May 1. The Air Marshal is an alumnus of the National […]