India Defence News

Air Marshal Suraj Kumar Jha, Air Officer-in-Charge Personnel for the IAF, speaks exclusively to Asianet News Resident Editor Prashant Reghuvamsom.

"Once the scheme was understood in its entirety, most people have accepted it. And the response to the registration process is proof," Air Marshal Suraj Kumar Jha, Air Officer-in-Charge Personnel for the IAF, said in an exclusive conversation with Asianet News Resident Editor Prashant Reghuvamsom.

Indian Army and Navy have completed their studies on theaterisation plan to be rolled out while the Air Force said definite progress has been made in the process. 

A total of 94,281 IAF Agniveer aspirants had registered themselves on agnipathvayu.cdac.in till Monday morning.

Candidates can apply for this scheme online by visiting the official website at agnipathvayu.cdac.in.

The move would help in providing a conducive and comfortable environment to the tourists in the harsh climatic and geographical conditions, and also lead to boosting the economic activities in border areas. 

According to officials, the incident happened in Patadhara Reserve Forest in Bheden block when the CRPF personnel were going from one camp to another.

According to Vice Admiral Dinesh K Tripathi, the Indian Navy's recruitment calendar was set for June 25, but it will begin on June 22.

Days after the defence ministry made it clear that the newly-introduced Agnipath Scheme would not be rolled back, Asianet Newsable spoke to several armed forces aspirants to understand if their stand on the matter had changed. What emerged were harrowing tales of despair.  

Indian Navy chief Admiral R Hari Kumar speaks exclusively to Asianet News on the Agnipath scheme and urges people who are protesting against the recruitment scheme to first get into the details of the scheme, understand it