CHENNAI: In early October, lieutenant general Rajeev Puri of the Indian Army wrote a five-page letter to his senior, general officer commanding-in-chief lieutenant general Ram Chander Tiwari, appraising the work of eight women colonels under his authority. It was not even two years ago that the Indian Army allowed women officers to be promoted to the rank of colonel, and …
Sixteen Army personnel, including three Lieutenant Colonels, were named in a First Information Report for allegedly barging into a police station, beating up and kidnapping policemen in north Kashmir’s Kupwara on Wednesday night. The incident took place around 9:40 p.m. at the Kupwara Police Station following a police raid of a house of a local territorial Army man in a …
In a move to address one of the core anomalies of the services with respect to their civil counterparts in the government, the Centre has decided to grant Non-Functional Upgrade benefit over which a legal battle has been going on for some time. In December 2016, the Principal Bench of the Armed Forces Tribunal, New Delhi granted NFU to armed …
