Mountain Corps

In a daring mission conducted in North Sikkim, troops of the Indian Army's Trishakti Corps rescued 245 people stranded in the village of Rabom due to flashfloods in Sikkim, officials said on Sunday.

For days, the dusty roads of a small town in Mongolia's westernmost province were largely deserted. "After the quarantine was announced, not many people - even locals - were in the streets for fear of catching the disease," Sebastian Pique, an American Peace Corps volunteer who has lived in the remote mountainous region for two years, told the Agen...

India will be buying 145 ultra-light howitzers from the United States for the upcoming Mountain Strike Corps - raised in 2013 - to defend India's border with China.

Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar on Tuesday refused to divulge information on the Mountain Strike Corps being raised by the Indian Army, saying it would not be in the "national interest".

The army has sent five columns - around 400 soldiers and engineers - and three medical teams to Kolkata, where an under-construction flyover collapsed today, killing at least 18 people and trapping scores of people under hundreds of tons of steel and concrete. A special team of engineers from Panagarh-based Mountain Strike Corps is also on way.

Army chief General Dalbir Singh Suhag today said that the Mountain Strike Corps, aimed at countering threats from China, would be raised as per the schedule by 2021 and termed acquisition of artillery guns and third generation missiles as "critical areas" for modernisation of the force.

Top Army commanders met in New Delhi today to discuss threadbare operational issues, modernisation programme, and review the formation of Mountain Strike Corps and developmental activities along the border with China.

India is said to be re-thinking a decision made two years ago to raise a mountain strike corps to guard the hilly northern borders with China. Sources said the government is now weighing whether it will make more sense to invest in better technology rather than raise an 80,000 strong force at considerable expense.

Out of over 3000 kilometres of roads to be built along the India-China border to allow faster movement of troops and better connectivity, only 600 kilometres have been built till date.

Army using crucial reserves to fund Mountain Corps, writes Nitin Gokhale.

Three paramilitary soldiers were killed when a group of militants launched a rocket attack on a mountain fort in Pakistan's troubled northwest early on Sunday, security officials said.

Designated as 17 Strike Corps to be initially headquartered at Ranchi in Jharkhand, the flag hoisting of the new Corps on January 1 signalled the raising of the new formation designed specifically for mountain warfare, both along the Eastern and Northern frontiers with China.

Despite recent statements by Beijing of its intent to improve ties with New Delhi, reports of Chinese incursion into Indian territory continue. Sources have told NDTV that Chinese troops crossed over into Chumar sector in Ladakh region thrice - on July 16, 18, and 20 - in the last five days.

China has reacted cautiously to India's proposal for the establishment of mountain strike corps along the Sino-Indian border.

The financial sanction given by India's Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) on Wednesday to raise a Mountain Strike Corps specifically aimed at launching offensive operations against China - if need be - is but a first step in what promises to be a long haul in adding 40,000 new troops to the country's 1.3 million strong Army.

In a daring mission conducted in North Sikkim, troops of the Indian Army's Trishakti Corps rescued 245 people stranded in the village of Rabom due to flashfloods in Sikkim, officials said on Sunday.

For days, the dusty roads of a small town in Mongolia's westernmost province were largely deserted. "After the quarantine was announced, not many people - even locals - were in the streets for fear of catching the disease," Sebastian Pique, an American Peace Corps volunteer who has lived in the remote mountainous region for two years, told the Agen...

India will be buying 145 ultra-light howitzers from the United States for the upcoming Mountain Strike Corps - raised in 2013 - to defend India's border with China.

Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar on Tuesday refused to divulge information on the Mountain Strike Corps being raised by the Indian Army, saying it would not be in the "national interest".

The army has sent five columns - around 400 soldiers and engineers - and three medical teams to Kolkata, where an under-construction flyover collapsed today, killing at least 18 people and trapping scores of people under hundreds of tons of steel and concrete. A special team of engineers from Panagarh-based Mountain Strike Corps is also on way.

Army chief General Dalbir Singh Suhag today said that the Mountain Strike Corps, aimed at countering threats from China, would be raised as per the schedule by 2021 and termed acquisition of artillery guns and third generation missiles as "critical areas" for modernisation of the force.

Top Army commanders met in New Delhi today to discuss threadbare operational issues, modernisation programme, and review the formation of Mountain Strike Corps and developmental activities along the border with China.

India is said to be re-thinking a decision made two years ago to raise a mountain strike corps to guard the hilly northern borders with China. Sources said the government is now weighing whether it will make more sense to invest in better technology rather than raise an 80,000 strong force at considerable expense.

Out of over 3000 kilometres of roads to be built along the India-China border to allow faster movement of troops and better connectivity, only 600 kilometres have been built till date.

Army using crucial reserves to fund Mountain Corps, writes Nitin Gokhale.

Three paramilitary soldiers were killed when a group of militants launched a rocket attack on a mountain fort in Pakistan's troubled northwest early on Sunday, security officials said.

Designated as 17 Strike Corps to be initially headquartered at Ranchi in Jharkhand, the flag hoisting of the new Corps on January 1 signalled the raising of the new formation designed specifically for mountain warfare, both along the Eastern and Northern frontiers with China.

Despite recent statements by Beijing of its intent to improve ties with New Delhi, reports of Chinese incursion into Indian territory continue. Sources have told NDTV that Chinese troops crossed over into Chumar sector in Ladakh region thrice - on July 16, 18, and 20 - in the last five days.

China has reacted cautiously to India's proposal for the establishment of mountain strike corps along the Sino-Indian border.

The financial sanction given by India's Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) on Wednesday to raise a Mountain Strike Corps specifically aimed at launching offensive operations against China - if need be - is but a first step in what promises to be a long haul in adding 40,000 new troops to the country's 1.3 million strong Army.