On 26 June 2025, the legendary Second Battalion of the Fifth Gorkha Rifles (Frontier Force), fondly called the "VC Paltan," ...

The Delhi High Court’s recent judgement upholding the dismissal of a commanding officer of the Indian Army, Samuel Kamalesan, for refusing to participate in weekly religious parades may appear ...

Manekshaw was the first Indian military officer to be promoted to the rank of field marshal, the highest rank that can be attained in the Indian Army. Manekshaw joined the British Indian Army in ...

Their uniform needed another overhaul. This is when, in 1848, officers Sir Harry Burnett Lumsden and William Stephen Raikes Hodson introduced khaki uniforms for British colonial forces in India.

Colonel Sophia Qureshi hails from Gujarat and comes from a family with a strong military background. She is an officer from the Indian Army's Corps of Signals.

Col Qureshi, who joined the Indian Army in 1999 through the Officers Training Academy, has served in a variety of roles across the country, including counter-terrorism operations with the Signal ...

Born in Matoor village in the Rawalpindi district (now in Pakistan), he served in the British Indian Army before joining Subhas Chandra Bose’s Azad Hind Fauj as a Major General. During World War II, ...

US Army Capt. Travis G. Chewning-Kulick completed the mile in a 62-pound bomb suit and was 20 seconds faster than the previous record, the Army said. Business Insider Subscribe Newsletters ...

British Army. The British Army, with its rich regimental traditions, has always emphasized the officer’s mess as a center of discipline and cohesion. Even today, mess dinners are formal, regimented ...

SRINAGAR, India (AP) — Three suspected militants and an army officer have been killed in two separate gunbattles in Indian-controlled Kashmir, the Indian army said Saturday.

The story the German officers told their interrogators began in Berlin on 3 April 1941. This was the date that the left-wing Indian revolutionary leader, Subhas Chandra Bose, arrived in the German ...

Gradually, the British began allowing Indians to join Sandhurst and become officers of the British Indian Army. These Indian officers, battle hardened during the Second World War, including in Myanmar ...