Indian Army

Amid rising attempts to infiltrate the Line of Control, the Indian Army gunned down three heavily armed terrorists in the Uri Sector of Baramulla district in Jammu and Kashmir. The Army said it foiled an infiltration attempt by Pakistani terrorists in forward areas of Uri Sector on August 25, culminating in the killing of three […]

Days after the Indian Army foiled an attempt to infiltrate the Line of Control (LoC) by a suspected Pakistani terrorist for the second time, it foiled another attempt by terrorists on Tuesday. Reconnaissance by quadcopter showed the bodies of two infiltrating terrorists in the Lam area of Nowshera in Rajouri district, suggesting the Army had […]

After reports of cloudburst emerged from various parts of Uttarakhand, Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami on Saturday said that help of the Indian Army will be sought if need arises. The CM visited the areas affected by the rains to take stock of the situation and ongoing operations. “Teams of the State Disaster Response Force, […]

  Shanti Devi is overwhelmed with mixed feelings of joy and renewed pain as she receives the mortal remains of her husband, an Indian Army soldier, 38 years after he went missing in Siachen, the Himalayas. The 64-year-old ‘Veer Naari’, as widows of Army men are known, was just 26 when she received the tragic […]

SRINAGAR: Two terrorists and three Army soldiers, including a Junior Commissioned Officer (JCO), were killed in a pre-dawn fidayeen attack on an army camp in Rajouri district on Thursday. The four brave soldiers who laid down their lives are identified as Subedar Rajendra Prasad, Rifleman Manoj Kumar, Rifleman Lakshmanan D and Rifleman  Nishant Malik. Additional […]

NEW DELHI: Over 55 lakh ex-servicemen and their eligible dependents benefitted from the Ex-Servicemen Contributory Health Scheme (ECHS) that provides cashless and capless medical benefits, the ministry of defence told in Lok Sabha. Apart from a vast network of 427 ECHS polyclinics and 30 ECHS Regional Centres and Empanelled Health Care Organizations in India, the […]

SRINAGAR: As the torrential rains lashed the union territory of Jammu and Kashmir, the Army last night saved four precious lives in a daring operation in the Poonch district of Jammu. The operation to rescue the person was launched after a local Army unit got distress calls. The Army within no time got into action […]

HARIDWAR: A 25-year-old Indian Army jawan died in a scuffle between two groups of Kanwar pilgrims on Tuesday in Roorkee in Haridwar district. Devendra Chouhan, SHO of Civil Lines Kotwali police station, said, “The case has been registered against 25 unidentified kanwariyas on the charges of culpable homicide not amounting to murder in section 304 […]

JAIPUR: An Indian army soldier was arrested in the case of espionage after he was caught supplying sensitive information to the Pakistani intelligence agency handlers, Rajasthan police said on Tuesday. The accused soldier Shantimoy Rana (24) is a resident of Bengal’s Bankura district. Police said that Rana, who is posted in Rajasthan, was honey-trapped by […]

NEW DELHI: 26th July is a red-letter day in the annals of India and is celebrated as the ‘Kargil Vijay Diwas’. On this day in 1999, the gallant Indian soldiers annihilated Pakistani forces and ousted them from the areas around Kargil. On this occasion, The New Indian talks about five Bollywood films which pay rich […]