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Topic: Army officer

A Dubai-bound shipment & a ‘bribe for arranging MEA approval’—CBI’s case against Lt Col & his wife

Lt Col Deepak Kumar Sharma, who was posted in Dept of Defence Production, is currently in CBI custody. His wife, also a colonel, has been booked but not directly linked to alleged bribe.

‘You insulted your own troops’: Why SC upheld sacking of Army officer over Sarv Dharm Sthal ceremony

Top court says refusal of a Christian Army officer to perform Sikh rituals with his troops hurt their morale and violated secular code of the Army.

‘Used his fist & feet to hit me’—SpiceJet staffer beat up by violent passenger recalls incident

Mudasir Ahmad, who was assaulted by an Army officer at Srinagar airport, recalled the incident saying the passenger used his baggage to hit him. Ahmad suffered a spinal fracture after the assault.

Hid behind toilet, saw massacre: Pahalgam eyewitness narrates how off-duty Army man led 30 to safety

On Tuesday, as terrorists gunned down 26 people at Pahalgam’s Baisaran valley, an Army officer on vacation with his family sprung into action to save multiple other tourists.

Amid furore over ‘assault’ on Army Colonel & son, Punjab Police book 5 accused cops, launch probe

12 officers have been accused by the Army officer of assaulting him and his son in Patiala. Fresh FIR was filed after his wife held a press conference demanding that the cops be named.

Did Captain & fiancée ‘attack’ cops or were they ‘manhandled’? Army to take up case with Odisha authorities

While police are quoted as saying that officer & fiancée created fracas & injured four police personnel, Army’s situational reports and his statement present a different picture.

2 army officers, 2 women attacked by 6 men while picnicking in MP’s Jam Gate; sexual assault suspected

One officer has expressed concern that one of the women might have been sexually assaulted, but she is yet to give her statement. 2 have been arrested, search for others is ongoing.

Manipur clash a ‘political problem’, 4000 looted weapons yet to be recovered — Eastern Army Commander

Lt Gen Rana Pratap Kalita says India giving shelter to anyone from Myanmar seeking refuge in Mizoram and Manipur, but not 'armed cadres of militant groups of drug traffickers'.

‘Figment of imagination,’ HC says of Tehelka ‘expose’, awards Rs 2 cr to Army officer  

In Tehelka’s 2001 sting operation, 'Operation West End', Major General M.S. Ahluwalia,  then serving in the Army HQ, was alleged to be a corrupt officer.

On Camera

Indian bureaucracy should be given incentives and rewards: MH Mody

Is there a place for a counter-bureaucracy, or a separate and competing bureaucracy to counterbalance the force of the executive’s bureaucracy, asked author MH Mody in 1980.

India’s urban co-op banks are turning the page—crisis to cautious revival, one metric at a time

With bad loans shrinking & capital buffers stronger, urban co-op banks’ new umbrella body NUCFDC is now prioritising rollout of digital transformation.

Greece looking at TATA’s WhAP infantry combat vehicle for army procurement

If deal goes through, Greece will be 2nd foreign country to procure vehicle. Morocco was first; TATA Group has set up manufacturing unit there with minimum 30 percent indigenous content.

A year-end Mea Culpa in National Interest—The Army-Islam combo doesn’t kill democracy

Many of you might think I got something so wrong in National Interest pieces written this year. I might disagree! But some deserve a Mea Culpa. I’d deal with the most recent this week.