Bipin Rawat

Padma Awards 2022: General Bipin Rawat honoured with Padma Vibhushan posthumously

Rawat, who was India's first Chief of Defence Staff, died in a helicopter crash in December last year

Amid delays in appointment of next CDS, Army, Navy and IAF continue spadework on theatre commands

In the two major tri-service discussions held at the Army’s southwestern command in Jaipur and central command in Lucknow, aspects of employment of theatres in different operational scenarios were discussed

'An attempt to strangulate an artiste's voice': Onir opens up on Defence Ministry's objection to his true-life story of a gay Major

"You’re humiliating the queer community by saying that the queer community is not ‘fit enough’ to serve the nation because you’re being judged not by your skillset, but by something that is nobody’s business, which is your sexuality," says Onir.

IAF gives detailed presentation to Rajnath Singh on CDS helicopter crash inquiry report

Sources said the Mi-17V5 was following a railway line in the hills when it entered a thick cloud cover. The crew decided to fly out of it rather than land, and hit a cliff in the process

IAF Helicopter Crash: Rajnath Singh to be apprised of probe team's findings at 11 am today

Sources suggested that the crash was not a result of any technical error in the Mi-17V5 helicopter of the Indian Air Force. However, there is no official confirmation on it

Farewell 2021: Your A to Z guide of the biggest news events of the year

As we turn the page of the calendar and make new resolutions (which shall be broken in no time at all), here’s our take, letter by letter, on everyone and everything that defined this year

Bharat is rising as 2022 looks like a year of living dangerously

Bharat has always been there, even if it is not visible to most of us. It was this Bharat that, with tearful faces, mourned General Bipin Rawat. It is this Bharat that is happy that the dirty, disgusting bylanes of Varanasi have been removed.

IAF Helicopter Crash: President Kovind, PM Modi express condolences on passing away of Group Captain Varun Singh

According to news reports, Captain Singh was being treated at a military hospital in Bengaluru and was on life support

Copter crash: Varun a fighter, he will win battle, says father of lone survivor

The IAF Group Captain was in the helicopter crash at Coonoor in Tamil Nadu on last Wednesday, which killed Chief of Defence Staff Gen Bipin Rawat and 12 others

IAF copter crash: Mobile phone of eyewitness sent for forensic analysis

Joe, a wedding photographer from Coimbatore, out of curiosity, had recorded the video of the ill-fated helicopter on his mobile phone, apparently moments before it crashed