General Anil Chauhan, Chief of the Defence Staff, conferred CDS Unit Citations award to the Strategic Forces Command, College of Defence Management, Secunderabad & 2 PARA (Special Forces) for their exemplary performance for the Year 2021-22 in a ceremony held in New Delhi on May 11. The CDS unit citations award was constituted after the […]
Ahead of the expected visit of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s trip later this year, India and Israel have reaffirmed their commitment to further strengthen the bilateral relations between the two countries. Bilateral talks between India’s External Affairs Minister Dr S Jaishankar and his Israeli counterpart Foreign Minister Eli Cohen, focussed on strengthening cooperation in different […]
A bipartisan group of American state governors and top officials have vouched for strong bilateral ties with India and pitched for investment from the Indian corporate sector who they said not only brings foreign direct investment but also skills and creates local jobs in the US. Governors Tom Wolf from Pennsylvania and Asa Hutchinson from […]
India said its security agencies annually seize thousands of illicit firearms, attributable to illegal trafficking from “across our borders”, despite a strong law-based framework in the country for controlling small arms and light weapons. “The continuing prevalence of illicit small arms and light weapons and their availability to terrorists, armed groups and other unauthorised recipients […]
Even as protests over the Agnipath scheme raged across the country, the government on Saturday announced reservation in job vacancies across sectors for soldiers recruited under this scheme, to be called ‘Agniveers’, and said it will look into any grievance about the new military recruitment scheme “with an open mind”. Union information and broadcasting minister […]