On 12 October 2024, ex-serviceman Gurjit Singh Khalsa began a sit-in protest on top of the BSNL tower in Patiala's Samana to raise his demand for a dedicated anti-sacrilege law in Punjab.
In the viral video, a serving army officer argues with a toll staff member after being asked to pay, claiming that he had crossed several toll plazas earlier without paying.
Leh's youth took to the streets on 24 September, with their protests leading to arson and violent clashes with police. Tharchin was killed hours after he stepped outside.
When dealing with military justice, it is equally important to ensure that personnel don't face excessive punishment or trumped-up charges to 'make an example'.
Addressing his annual press conference on Thursday, Army Chief Gen Manoj Pande said every force will have three categories of equipment – vintage, current and state of art.
In a seminal work, former military officers Lt. Gen. D.S. Hooda & Lt. Col. Pavithran Rajan put forth a framework to approach cognitive warfare, called Socio-Technical-Cognitive Battlespace.
India, China and Russia share more contradictions than congruence. Each has a different worldview, as also a different adversary. The rude fact is, BRICS is the most irrelevant of all such groupings.
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