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Friday, December 19, 2025
TopicBritish Army

Topic: British Army

British military is short-staffed, underequipped, strained. An EPL ad hints at the crisis

Europe is going through a major churn, ramping up defence investment to beef up security in response to Russia-Ukraine war, but the British armed forces are facing severe manpower shortage.

UK Army denies ‘KZF handler’ Jagjeet Singh serving in force. But, ‘image in media of British soldier’

Punjab DGP Gaurav Yadav had said the banned KZF was controlled by chief Ranjeet Singh Nita in association with Jaswinder Singh Mannu and Jagjeet Singh, a British soldier.

British Army joins KDF forces to provide free medical services in Kenya

Medical outreach and care was provided to over 17,000 residents, with over 600 children aged less than 5.

Did Bose flirt with fascism? Both Modi govt and West are reading him wrong

Once overlooked by the secular establishment, Subhas Chandra Bose was eventually sought to be appropriated by communists, embraced by socialists, reclaimed by Congress, and adopted as a hero by Hindu supremacists.

‘Your service to the war changed my life’ — The love story of an Indian man in the British army

In ‘Raj and Norah’, Peter R. Kohli and Shaina Kohli Russo write about Rajendra Kohli, who left his chemistry studies in England to join the British Army in 1939.

Twitter’s Middle East editor is a British Military officer, claims report

Gordon MacMillan is a “part-time” officer with the 77th Brigade of the British Army which was set up to wage information warfare.

On Camera

Modi govt’s repeal of MGNREGA is all about extracting money from states, not reform

The claim that VB-GRAMG provides an employment guarantee is incorrect. The only guarantee is to 'empower' the Centre to allow partial implementation in notified areas alone.

China is taking India to WTO over subsidies, again. Here’s what it’s arguing before trade body

Dispute will now move to consultative process, which allows the two sides to come to an amicable agreement within 60 days.

Israel has ‘realised who its real friend is’, eyes defence expansion in India amid arms curbs by others

It is argued that India-Israel ties are moving from buyer–seller dynamic to one focused on joint development & manufacturing partnership, a shift 'more durable' than traditional arms sales.

India’s top airline just handed sarkar the keys. That’s IndiGo’s real ‘crime’

Don’t blame misfortune. This is colossal incompetence and insensitivity. So bad, heads would have rolled even in the old PSU-era Indian Airlines and Air India.