A woman officer, Group Captain Shaliza Dhami, will on Sunday command the Indian Air Force Day parade for the first time at air force station Bamrauli in Prayagraj to mark the service’s 91st anniversary, officials aware of the matter said. Group Captain Shaliza Dhami A helicopter pilot, Dhami was also the first woman to assume command of a frontline IAF …
A woman Indian Air Force officer recently accused her colleague of raping her during a training course at the Coimbatore IAF institute, leading to his arrest. She has said in her police complaint that she was also subjected to the two-finger rape test, which has been banned by the Supreme Court. On September 26, Flight Lieutenant Amitesh Harmukh was arrested …
Flight Lieutenant Shivangi Singh is on her way to formally join the Golden Arrows squadron operating the Rafale fighter jets. The Golden Arrows squadron of the IAF was resurrected on September 10 last year after five French-made multirole Rafale fighter jets were inducted into the Indian Air Force. Shivangi Singh was commissioned into the Indian Air Force in the year …
New Delhi: In a first of sorts and unprecedented incident in the Indian Air Force, an all-woman crew on Monday flew a medium-lift helicopter for the first time, the Indian Air Force said. The crew, comprising Flight Lieutenant Parul Bhardwaj, Flying Officer Aman Nidhi and Flight Lieutenant Hina Jaiswal, flew a Mi-17 V5 helicopter for a Battle Inoculation Training Mission, …
Janhvi Kapoor’s look as first woman Indian Air Force pilot Gunjan Saxena from the forthcoming untitled film, backed by Dharma Productions, has surfaced on the internet. Saxena, along with her colleague Srividya Rajan, were part of the first female batch of 25 Indian Air Force trainee pilots in 1994. During the 1999 war, Flight Lieutenant Saxena and Flight Lieutenant Srividya …