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Defence Minister Rajnath Singh today briefed the Parliament on Army helicopter crash in Tamil Nadu that left Chief Of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat, his wife Madhulika Rawat and 11 others dead.

Hearing the bail request of Bhim Army chief Chandrashekhar Azad aka "Raavan", arrested for his protest last month against the citizenship law at Jama Masjid, a Delhi court today asserted "it is one's constitutional right to protest" and people were out on streets because "inside parliament, things which should have been said were not said". The jud...

Pakistan's National Assembly, the lower house of Parliament, on Tuesday passed three crucial bills to give extension to Army chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa for another three years.

Former Home Minister P Chidambaram on Saturday questioned the logic behind his successor, Amit Shah, challenging Congress leader Rahul Gandhi to a debate on the Citizenship Amendment Act when he "had not answered even a single question" on the issue in parliament.

Two protesters were killed and many others injured in police firing in Assam's Guwahati amid a raging agitation against the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill on Thursday evening. The incident occurred even as thousands of protesters descended on the streets in defiance of a curfew imposed on the city after parliament cleared the contentious legislation ...

The Guwahati police chief was removed on Thursday, even as thousands of protesters took to the streets in defiance of a curfew imposed on the city after the parliament cleared the contentious Citizenship (Amendment) Bill the previous night. The suspension of Internet services in 10 districts of Assam has been extended for another 48 hours from noon...

Pakistan's powerful army chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa was given a six-month extension by the country's Supreme Court on Thursday, just hours before his three-year tenure was due to expire at midnight. The court also directed the parliament to legislate on the matter within these six months.

A book authored by the then Navy chief says that Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee wanted to hit a Pakistani Army camp in the wake of the Parliament terror attack but was forced to drop the plan at the last moment as it got relocated.

Ignoring an appeal from the senior-most armed forces chief, the government has decided to not review the decision to cap the education expenditure of children of soldiers killed or disabled in action. In a statement in parliament on Tuesday, the Defence Ministry has said that 2,679 students were availing the scheme, of which 193 students have been ...

The Pakistani military is willing to support the government if there's any chance of peace talks happening with India, the country's army chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa said in a rare briefing to the senate or the upper hour of parliament on Tuesday. For the first time in six years, Pakistan's military heads came to parliament -- a civilian instit...

The world's second-largest standing army is woefully short on ammunition and there hasn't been a remarkable change in the last few years, the country's top auditor told parliament on Friday. The shortage dents the army's ability to sustain a war for a long period.

A furious Mamata Banerjee left her Kolkata office after 30 hours on Friday evening amid a row over the presence of army at toll booths across West Bengal. "The centre is trying to bulldoze us, we will fight them legally," Ms Banerjee said. The centre and the army have said soldiers are present at the toll booths as part of a routine vehicle countin...

No questions were allowed yesterday as the Army's second most senior officer briefed a parliamentary committee on the surgical strikes that were carried out across the Line of Control about two weeks ago.

Aung San Suu Kyi and Myanmar's powerful army chief held fresh talks on Monday on the country's dramatic political transition, days before a military-dominated legislature hands over to the most democratic parliament in generations.

Ahead of a joint session of parliament, Pakistan's prime minister and army chief held marathon meetings on Monday over violent anti-government protests that could force the premier of this nuclear-armed country to resign.

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh today briefed the Parliament on Army helicopter crash in Tamil Nadu that left Chief Of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat, his wife Madhulika Rawat and 11 others dead.

Hearing the bail request of Bhim Army chief Chandrashekhar Azad aka "Raavan", arrested for his protest last month against the citizenship law at Jama Masjid, a Delhi court today asserted "it is one's constitutional right to protest" and people were out on streets because "inside parliament, things which should have been said were not said". The jud...

Pakistan's National Assembly, the lower house of Parliament, on Tuesday passed three crucial bills to give extension to Army chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa for another three years.

Former Home Minister P Chidambaram on Saturday questioned the logic behind his successor, Amit Shah, challenging Congress leader Rahul Gandhi to a debate on the Citizenship Amendment Act when he "had not answered even a single question" on the issue in parliament.

Two protesters were killed and many others injured in police firing in Assam's Guwahati amid a raging agitation against the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill on Thursday evening. The incident occurred even as thousands of protesters descended on the streets in defiance of a curfew imposed on the city after parliament cleared the contentious legislation ...

The Guwahati police chief was removed on Thursday, even as thousands of protesters took to the streets in defiance of a curfew imposed on the city after the parliament cleared the contentious Citizenship (Amendment) Bill the previous night. The suspension of Internet services in 10 districts of Assam has been extended for another 48 hours from noon...

Pakistan's powerful army chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa was given a six-month extension by the country's Supreme Court on Thursday, just hours before his three-year tenure was due to expire at midnight. The court also directed the parliament to legislate on the matter within these six months.

A book authored by the then Navy chief says that Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee wanted to hit a Pakistani Army camp in the wake of the Parliament terror attack but was forced to drop the plan at the last moment as it got relocated.

Ignoring an appeal from the senior-most armed forces chief, the government has decided to not review the decision to cap the education expenditure of children of soldiers killed or disabled in action. In a statement in parliament on Tuesday, the Defence Ministry has said that 2,679 students were availing the scheme, of which 193 students have been ...

The Pakistani military is willing to support the government if there's any chance of peace talks happening with India, the country's army chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa said in a rare briefing to the senate or the upper hour of parliament on Tuesday. For the first time in six years, Pakistan's military heads came to parliament -- a civilian instit...

The world's second-largest standing army is woefully short on ammunition and there hasn't been a remarkable change in the last few years, the country's top auditor told parliament on Friday. The shortage dents the army's ability to sustain a war for a long period.

A furious Mamata Banerjee left her Kolkata office after 30 hours on Friday evening amid a row over the presence of army at toll booths across West Bengal. "The centre is trying to bulldoze us, we will fight them legally," Ms Banerjee said. The centre and the army have said soldiers are present at the toll booths as part of a routine vehicle countin...

No questions were allowed yesterday as the Army's second most senior officer briefed a parliamentary committee on the surgical strikes that were carried out across the Line of Control about two weeks ago.

Aung San Suu Kyi and Myanmar's powerful army chief held fresh talks on Monday on the country's dramatic political transition, days before a military-dominated legislature hands over to the most democratic parliament in generations.

Ahead of a joint session of parliament, Pakistan's prime minister and army chief held marathon meetings on Monday over violent anti-government protests that could force the premier of this nuclear-armed country to resign.