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Monday, November 24, 2025
TopicNational Defence Academy

Topic: National Defence Academy

Online courses, non-contact sports — how military training is taking on Covid challenge

Despite Covid-19, however, there has been an increased interest among defence officers from foreign countries to attend training courses in Indian military institutions.

Bipin Rawat’s plan to train jawans for officer role is Army admitting staff shortage, quality

Nationalism has not proved to be enough to meet shortage of staff in Indian Army with academies running without full capacity.

Military officers who faced ‘ragging’ at NDA say cadets need to be broken in

A former NDA instructor and a serving officer told me training of cadets is ‘still inadequate’ and ‘ragda’ should in fact increase.

Outdated courses to rampant ragging: Why India’s National Defence Academy needs urgent help

NDA instructors pass on the same unethical practices they picked while being ‘groomed’ by the flawed leadership development programme.

National Defence Academy principal forged papers, is ineligible for post: CBI

CBI says 12 others — including professors of math, economics and chemistry — also fudged data to meet job standards. Agency raids Khadakwasla campus, no arrests yet.

CBI raids on defence academy show military education system needs fixing

Preoccupied with immediate organisational and operational challenges, the services have ignored military education for too long. The recent news about CBI raids on the...

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At Charcha 2025: Local entrepreneurship, not just big IT, will drive next wave of distributed AI work

While global corporations setting up GCCs in India continue to express confidence in availability of skilled AI engineers, the panel argued that India’s real challenge lies elsewhere.

US pilot says his team pulled out of Dubai Air Show after Tejas crash out of respect for IAF pilot

Taylor ‘Fema’ Hiester, commander of USAF F-16 Viper Demo Team, hit out at air show organisers for continuing with the show after Wing Commander Namansh Syal lost his life in the incident.

A tribute to Tejas. India’s delay culture is the real enemy in the skies

It is a brilliant, reasonably priced, and mostly homemade aircraft with a stellar safety record; only two crashes in 24 years since its first flight. But its crash is a moment of introspection.