Both women officers are trailblazers in their own right. The Army colonel was a military observer in Congo. The IAF wing commander led an air relief mission in Arunachal Pradesh.
The ships were built with 75% indigenous materials & collaborations with global manufacturers. INS Nilgiri, INS Surat & INS Vaghsheer were commissioned Wednesday in the presence of PM Modi.
Current problems stem from a hastily executed policy and the inadequate grooming of women officers for higher ranks. They will, in future, be groomed and trained at par with male counterparts.
Now that a large number of women are to be recruited in the military as Personnel Below Officer Rank, the armed forces must lay down laws to deal with gender-based crimes.
I was stationed in Assam for the first 3 years. I enjoyed the greenery all around the city, boat rides in the gigantic Brahmaputra, and bowed my head at Kamakhya temple.
Rekha Singh, wife of the late Naik (Nursing Assistant) Deepak Singh, has been commissioned as lieutenant in Ordnance Corps and posted to Ladakh in same command as her husband.
The Supreme Court is currently hearing Gurav’s thirteenth case. If she wins, she could be promoted to the rank of brigadier and be in the reckoning to head the Army’s JAG wing.
5 officers of the Indian Navy’s INAS 314 completed the first all-women independent maritime reconnaissance and surveillance mission in the North Arabian Sea on Wednesday.
Common training for men and women officers at the Officer Training Academy, Chennai, which Gen. Naravane himself instituted in 2017-18, has led to improved standards, he said.
For all their colonial underpinnings, postcards from Hyderabad also inadvertently preserve a trace of local memory: a glimpse of a street, a face, a forgotten name.
Indian toymakers are now exploring new markets, but they want govt to negotiate a trade deal with US soon, introduce incentives and subsidies to make the industry more competitive.
The project is meant to be a ‘protective shield that will keep expanding’, the PM said. It is on the lines of the ‘Golden Dome’ announced by Trump, it is learnt.
Now that both IAF and PAF have made formal claims of having shot down the other’s aircraft in the 87-hour war in May, we can ask a larger question: do such numbers really matter?
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