Reports suggest that authorities have decided to hold this year's Navy Day celebrations outside Visakhapatnam. Meanwhile, sources have reported that Mumbai is being considered as a new venue, but it has not yet been decided.
Some of the legacy practices, which the Indian Army is considering for review, include uniforms and accoutrements, units, establishments, institutes of colonial past and English names of some of the units among others.
Rajnath Singh and his Egyptian counterpart General Mohamed Zaki agreed to identify proposals for expanding cooperation between the countries' defence industries in a time-bound manner.
As per an Indian Army official, the parade in 2023 will be celebrated under the Southern Command area. However, he maintained that the location where Army Day will be celebrated is yet to be decided.
The historic episode beyond the enemy lines took place a day after the Indian Air Force annihilated a terror facility in Pakistan's Balakot when IAF's Mirage-2000s bombed the region in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir on February 26, 2019.
The service is a wireless Internet beamed down from satellites orbiting the Earth. It is different from land-based internet services like cable or DSL, which transmit data through wires.
The first batch of 10 Made-in-India Light Combat Helicopters are expected to replace the ageing Russian Mi-25 and Mi-35 attack helicopters.
In 1953, the Indian Air Force made its maiden flight over Mount Everest in a World War II vintage Liberator C-87, secretly synced with Edmund Hilary's epic summit of the peak. IAF historian Anchit Gupta narrates the story of the second-ever photo reconnaissance flight over Everest and its stunning pictures.
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh took to Twitter on Wednesday to say, "I conveyed India's concern at the recent US decision to provide sustenance package for Pakistan's F-16 fleet. Look forward to continuing dialogue with US Secretary of Defence Lloyd Austin to further consolidate India-US partnership."
Contrary to media reports which claimed that all recruitment rallies would be held in abeyance or 'alternatively' conducted in neighbouring states if the local authorities do not provide all the facilities, Army sources said there is no plan to shift recruitment rallies from Punjab to any other state.
