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Air Marshal D Choudhury is the new Commandant of National Defence College

Air Marshal D Choudhury took charge as new Commandant of National Defence College. He took over the charge from Vice Admiral Srikant. Prior to this appointment Air Marshal...

December 17, 2019

NAVARMS-19: International Seminar on Naval weapon Systems

The fourth edition of International Seminar cum Exhibition on Naval Weapon Systems ‘NAVARMS-19’ is scheduled to be held on 12-13 December 2019 at Institute for Defence Studies and...

December 11, 2019

Ministry of Defence launches Campaign against Single-Use Plastic

The Ministry of Defence will be organising plogging programme to raise awareness amongst the citizens of the country to collect plastic waste and make the surrounding clean, at...

December 7, 2019

Armed Forces Flag Day

The Armed Forces Flag Day is observed every year since 1949 in India on 7th December to honor the martyrs and the soldiers, sailors and airmen who valiantly...

December 7, 2019

Defence ministry’s campaign against plastic

The Ministry of Defence has launched a massive campaign in line with the Swachh Bharat Mission in December. All three armed forces along with other defence agencies are...

December 6, 2019

Indian Coast Guard can now legally search & seize vessels in EEZ

Union Ministry of Defence has authorized every member of Coast Guard under Coast Guard Act 1978, to visit, board, search and seize any suspicious vessel and arrest people...

December 6, 2019

Appointments made on 1st December 2019

1) Soma Roy Burman has been appointed as the New Controller General of Accounts(CGA). Soma Roy Burman, from 1986 batch of Indian Civil Accounts Services (ICAS) officer became...

December 2, 2019

DRDO organises workshop for Achieving Leadership in Future Technologies

On 13 Nov. Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) organised a workshop titled ‘DRDO-Academia Interaction for Achieving Leadership in Future Technologies’. The workshop was aimed to leverage the...

November 14, 2019

Bipin Rawat appointed as chairman of Chiefs of Staff Committee

Indian Army chief General Bipin Rawat has become the new chairman of Chiefs of Staff Committee (COSC). He succeeded IAF chief – Air Chief Marshal Birender Singh Dhanoa....

September 28, 2019

Rajnath Singh becomes first defence minister to fly in LCA Tejas

Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on 19th September 2019 flew in the Tejas fighter aircraft from the HAL airport in Bengaluru. He becomes the first defence minister to...

September 20, 2019

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