...
...

army staff news

Gen Seth to assume charge as army chief

Gen Seth to assume charge as army chief
Published on Jun 30, 2026 03:34 pm IST

Lt Gen Pushpendra Singh to be next Vice Chief of Army Staff

The officer is an alumnus of the Indian Military Academy and was commissioned into the 4 Para (Special Forces) in December 1987.
Published on Jul 30, 2025 10:21 pm IST

Govt creates new posts of Deputy Chief of Army Staff (Strategy), Director General Information Warfare

Lt Gen Paramajit Singh will be the first officer to assume the new appointment .
Updated on Dec 03, 2020 10:05 pm IST

Four-day Army Commanders’ Conference begins in Delhi today

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh will address the conference on the second day.
Published on Oct 26, 2020 08:58 am IST

Bodies of 3 Rajouri youngsters killed in Shopian encounter to be exhumed, handed over to families

The DNA samples of Imtiyaz Ahmed, Abrar Ahmed and Mohd Ibrar, who were gunned down on July 18 in Shopian, matched with their family members in Rajouri on September 25.
Published on Sept 30, 2020 04:44 pm IST

Theatre Commands may not happen in 3 years: Army chief General Naravane

Chief of Army Staff, General Manoj Mukund Naravane, on Thursday said theatre commands may not be operationalised by 2022
Updated on Feb 21, 2020 10:45 am IST

Military Lit Fest Day 2: Delhi has become capital of lies, says Ravish Kumar

Senior journalist Ravish Kumar speaking during a session, Ek Aur Satyagraha Bharat ki Atma Ke Liye, as Anandpur Sahib MP Manish Tewari on the second day of the Military Lit Fest at Lake Club, Sector 1, in Chandigarh on Saturday.
Updated on Dec 16, 2019 07:27 am IST

Before announcement, PM Modi set ball rolling for Chief of Defence Staff

Chief of Army Staff General Bipin Rawat
Updated on Jun 15, 2020 06:38 pm IST

Veterans differentiate between tactical and strategic operations

Minister of state for foreign affairs and former chief of Army Staff General VK Singh on Saturday took on the Congress, which claimed that operations across the Line of Control (LoC) – the de-facto border between India and Pakistan – by the Indian military did happen in the past as well.
Updated on May 04, 2019 09:35 pm IST

Major Leetul Gogoi could lose seniority

Leetul Gogoi , who qualified to become an officer in 2008 years after joining the army, was detained at the Srinagar hotel in 2018 after an altercation with the owner who had refused to allow a woman to enter the hotel to meet Gogoi.
Published on Mar 31, 2019 11:58 pm IST

‘Don’t use photographs of defence personnel for election campaigns,’ EC tells political parties

The Election Commission’s direction came after a complaint by the ministry of defence.
Updated on Mar 10, 2019 09:17 am IST

Army Institute of Technology, Pune to double seats in two engineering streams from 2020

AIT director Brigadier Abhay Bhat (retd).
Updated on Feb 21, 2019 04:35 pm IST

Caste-based recruitment for President’s Bodyguard? Court seeks Centre’s reply

The Delhi High Court has sought response of the Centre and the Chief of the Army Staff on a plea alleging that only three castes were considered for recruitment to the President’s Bodyguard.
Updated on Dec 27, 2018 12:09 am IST

Chief of Army Staff visits Southern Command

General Bipin Rawat,chief of Army staff, being received by Lt Gen D R Soni(left), general officer commanding-in-chief , Southern Command, on Thursday.
Updated on Apr 27, 2018 03:27 pm IST

Army man in jail for 27 yrs: SC acknowledges wife’s plea for justice

The plea in the Supreme Court seeks quashing of the order of the sentence passed by the General Court Martial way back in 1991.
Published on Apr 01, 2018 12:53 pm IST