New Delhi | 8 days ago
Five nations to take part in India's first military music fest
New Delhi, Feb 5 - Military bands from Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, France and Britain will participate in India's first ever military music festival here Feb 25 to March 9.The festival is being organised by the army at the parade ground in Delhi cantonment, the Purana Qila and the India Gate, a senior army official told IANS. Invitations were sent to France, Britain, Nepal, Bangladesh, Sri Lank ... read more

New Delhi | 12 days ago
Sajjan Kumar gets notice in 1984 anti-Sikh riots cases
New Delhi, Feb 1 - A city court Monday issued notice to former Congress MP Sajjan Kumar and others in two cases relating to the 1984 anti-Sikh riots, taking cognisance of two chargesheets filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation - against them.Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Lokesh Kumar issued notices to Sajjan Kumar and others, summoning them Feb 17. Prima facie the court is satisf ... read more

9 months ago
Former navy chief S.M. Nanda dead
New Delhi, May 12 - Former Indian Navy chief Admiral S.M. Nanda died in the capital following ill health. He was 94, naval officials said Tuesday. Nanda died at about 11 p.m. Monday in Fortis Hospital, Vasant Kunj. Officials said the funeral will take place at the Brar Square crematorium in Delhi Cantonment at about 4 p.m. Tuesday. Nanda, who served as the chief of naval staff from 1970 to 197 ... read more

9 months ago
Armed forces chiefs get ready to vote
New Delhi, April 24 - India's armed forces chiefs have got themselves registered with the Election Commission and are raring to vote in these general elections. 'I will be voting in the elections. I will use the proxy voting system,' Air Chief Marshal Fali Homi Major, chief of the Indian Air Force -, told IANS. In an interview to IANS last year, Major had said he had been unable to vote regular ... read more

9 months ago
Changed boundaries add uncertainty to polls in Delhi
New Delhi, April 24 - Party campaigners find they do not know many of the areas now within their constituency as delimitation has altered the political demography of the capital. The maps of all seven Lok Sabha constituencies in Delhi have been redrawn. While three constituencies - Delhi Sadar, Karol Bagh and Outer Delhi - cease to exist, three new constituencies, northwest Delhi, northeast Delh ... read more

10 months ago
Punjab state wrestler, two aides held for Delhi robberies
New Delhi, March 29 - Delhi Police have busted a gang of robbers, active in the west and southwest areas of the capital, and have arrested three gang members, including a state-level wrestler, a police official said Sunday. The police arrested Maninder Singh, a wrestler from Punjab, and his accomplices Veer Bahadur and Keshav Kumar for robbery and the Arms Act violations Saturday from Hari Naga ... read more

11 months ago
Two schoolchildren injured in Noida accident
Noida, March 6 - Two schoolchildren were injured Friday when the car they were riding in was hit by a private bus here, the police said. According to police sources, Kshitij and Satyam - both students of Army Public School in Sector 29 - were going to their school at 8.00 a.m. when their Maruti Esteem car was hit by a private bus at a crossing a few metres from the school. The injured students ... read more

1 year ago
Our patience is being tested: Army chief
New Delhi, Jan 15 - Vowing to keep the 'nation above all', Indian Army Chief General Deepak Kapoor said here Thursday that the force's 'patience is being tested' post the Mumbai attacks. He was speaking on the 61st Army Day. 'Mumbai attack ke baad sena ke dhairya ki pariksha li jaa rahi hai. Bharat lambe samay se atankwad se jujh raha hai -,' Kapoor told a gathering of serving and retired defenc ... read more

1 year ago
Indian Army commemorates 61st foundation day
New Delhi, Jan 15 - The Indian Army commemorated its 61st Foundation Day Thursday by paying homage to martyred soldiers. Army Chief General Deepak Kapoor, Navy Chief Admiral Sureesh Mehta and Chief of Air Staff Air Marshall Fali Homi Major paid floral tributes at the Amar Jawan Jyoti at the India Gate here. Army Day is celebrated on Jan 15 every year to commemorate the appointment in 1949 of Gen ... read more

1 year ago
Army colonel arrested for misbehaving with lady officer
New Delhi, Dec 13 - An Indian Army colonel was arrested by the Delhi police after a lady officer complained that he misbehaved with her, the police said Saturday. 'The incident took place Thursday night. Colonel Sunder Yadav, 52, was with the lady officer, a captain, who is a doctor at the base hospital. They both were in a car,' a police official said. 'The victim told us that when the car was ... read more