Army Major Killed

The Nagaland Police has named 30 Army special forces soldiers, including a Major, in a chargesheet over a botched ambush last year that killed 14 civilians.

The body of Major Sankalp Yadav, who was killed in an Army helicopter crash in north Kashmir, were consigned to flames with full military honours in Jaipur on Saturday.

Brigadier Lakhwinder Singh Lidder was set to be promoted as Major General, an Army officer and the Brigadier's neighbour said a day after his death in the chopper crash that also killed Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat.

General Bipin Rawat, India's first Chief of Defence Staff, was killed along with 12 others in a helicopter crash in Tamil Nadu today. One survivor is being treated for his injuries.

The Indian Army has ordered a court of inquiry headed by an officer of major general rank into the Nagaland firing incident in which 14 civilians were killed, official sources said on Tuesday.

Army Major Vibhuti Shankar Dhoundiyal, who was killed in the 2019 Pulwama terrorist attack, was accorded the Shaurya Chakra (posthumously) by President Ram Nath Kovind in an investiture ceremony on Monday.

The cremation of Major Anuj Rajput, who was killed along with his co-pilot when their helicopter crash-landed in a dense forest in Jammu and Kashmir, happened today with full military honours in Panchkula on Wednesday.

Major Vibhuti Shankar Dhoundiyal was killed in a gun battle in February 2019. He had been married only a year. Today, his wife, Nitika Kaul, passed out of the Officers' Training Academy, Chennai.

Hours after Jammu and Kashmir Police said three terrorists were shot dead on the outskirts of Srinagar, the families of the killed "terrorists" alleged that "innocent" young people including the son of a police officer have been killed in a staged encounter, and passed off as terrorists. One of the dead was a Class 11 student, the family claimed.

An officer of the Indian Army and three security personnel, including a constable of the Border Security Force or BSF, were killed in the line of duty during a major anti-terror operation along the Line of Control or LoC in Jammu and Kashmir's Kupwara district, officials said.

All Indian soldiers involved in the deadly clash with China at the Galwan Valley area in Ladakh on Monday have now been accounted for, senior officials of the army said today. Newspaper reports had discussed the possibility of some Indian soldiers being in Chinese custody; The Hindu newspaper said this morning that "several soldiers are still unacc...

A day after inconclusive talks over the face-off in eastern Ladakh, a Major General of the Indian Army is holding talks with Chinese military officers at Galwan valley. The talks being held are in the area where violent clashes between Indian and Chinese soldiers took place on Monday night. 20 soldiers including a Colonel gave their lives for India...

Ten Indian soldiers, including four officers, had been detained by the Chinese Army after the violent clashes of June 15 in which 20 Indian soldiers were killed in action. They are all back with the Indian side now. The release of the men, including two Majors, came about after three days of negotiations in the Galwan Valley headed by a Major Gener...

Talks between Major Generals of India and China in Galwan Valley in Ladakh, the site of a huge clash on Monday in which 20 soldiers were killed, were inconclusive, army sources said on Wednesday.

Three Indian soldiers, Colonel B Santosh Babu, Havildar Palani and Sepoy Ojha, were killed in a "violent face-off" on Monday night with Chinese troops at Galwan Valley in Ladakh, in a massive escalation in the middle of efforts to defuse weeks of tension at the border. India retaliated and there were casualties on both sides, said the army. Army so...

The Nagaland Police has named 30 Army special forces soldiers, including a Major, in a chargesheet over a botched ambush last year that killed 14 civilians.

The body of Major Sankalp Yadav, who was killed in an Army helicopter crash in north Kashmir, were consigned to flames with full military honours in Jaipur on Saturday.

Brigadier Lakhwinder Singh Lidder was set to be promoted as Major General, an Army officer and the Brigadier's neighbour said a day after his death in the chopper crash that also killed Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat.

General Bipin Rawat, India's first Chief of Defence Staff, was killed along with 12 others in a helicopter crash in Tamil Nadu today. One survivor is being treated for his injuries.

The Indian Army has ordered a court of inquiry headed by an officer of major general rank into the Nagaland firing incident in which 14 civilians were killed, official sources said on Tuesday.

Army Major Vibhuti Shankar Dhoundiyal, who was killed in the 2019 Pulwama terrorist attack, was accorded the Shaurya Chakra (posthumously) by President Ram Nath Kovind in an investiture ceremony on Monday.

The cremation of Major Anuj Rajput, who was killed along with his co-pilot when their helicopter crash-landed in a dense forest in Jammu and Kashmir, happened today with full military honours in Panchkula on Wednesday.

Major Vibhuti Shankar Dhoundiyal was killed in a gun battle in February 2019. He had been married only a year. Today, his wife, Nitika Kaul, passed out of the Officers' Training Academy, Chennai.

Hours after Jammu and Kashmir Police said three terrorists were shot dead on the outskirts of Srinagar, the families of the killed "terrorists" alleged that "innocent" young people including the son of a police officer have been killed in a staged encounter, and passed off as terrorists. One of the dead was a Class 11 student, the family claimed.

An officer of the Indian Army and three security personnel, including a constable of the Border Security Force or BSF, were killed in the line of duty during a major anti-terror operation along the Line of Control or LoC in Jammu and Kashmir's Kupwara district, officials said.

All Indian soldiers involved in the deadly clash with China at the Galwan Valley area in Ladakh on Monday have now been accounted for, senior officials of the army said today. Newspaper reports had discussed the possibility of some Indian soldiers being in Chinese custody; The Hindu newspaper said this morning that "several soldiers are still unacc...

A day after inconclusive talks over the face-off in eastern Ladakh, a Major General of the Indian Army is holding talks with Chinese military officers at Galwan valley. The talks being held are in the area where violent clashes between Indian and Chinese soldiers took place on Monday night. 20 soldiers including a Colonel gave their lives for India...

Ten Indian soldiers, including four officers, had been detained by the Chinese Army after the violent clashes of June 15 in which 20 Indian soldiers were killed in action. They are all back with the Indian side now. The release of the men, including two Majors, came about after three days of negotiations in the Galwan Valley headed by a Major Gener...

Talks between Major Generals of India and China in Galwan Valley in Ladakh, the site of a huge clash on Monday in which 20 soldiers were killed, were inconclusive, army sources said on Wednesday.

Three Indian soldiers, Colonel B Santosh Babu, Havildar Palani and Sepoy Ojha, were killed in a "violent face-off" on Monday night with Chinese troops at Galwan Valley in Ladakh, in a massive escalation in the middle of efforts to defuse weeks of tension at the border. India retaliated and there were casualties on both sides, said the army. Army so...