"India is facing complex security and challenging environment. Some important steps that we need to take include defining the national security strategy, higher defence strategic guidance, structural reforms in higher defence and operational organisation," CDS Gen Rawat said.
"The proposal has been postponed as it will be approved along with the cadre review exercise which is going on," sources in the Indian Army said.
The JCOs and soldiers of the Army, Navy and Air Force will be discussing the morale and motivation matters with the prime minister on the last day of the Combined Commanders Conference
Join Flags of Honour in honouring Subedar Sanjay Kumar on his birthday today. His act of bravery was instrumental in recapturing the Flat Top area from the hands of Pakistani intruders during the Kargil war.
The flypast by IAF's Suryakiran Display Team was significant and reminiscent of their performance at the Golden Jubilee celebrations of SLAF, two decades ago. Anish Singh reports
Exercise Desert Flag, the annual multi-national warfare drill, is being hosted by the UAE Air Force, in which countries like the US, France, Saudi Arabia, South Korea and Bahrain are also participating.
Villages Merak and Khakted on the southern bank of Pangong Tso were connected to their first mobile network from state-owned telecom service provider Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited on March 1.
India's indigenous Light Combat Aircraft Tejas will participate in the 70th-anniversary celebrations of the Sri Lankan Air Force on an invitation extended by SLAF commander Air Marshal Sudarshana Pathirana.
Commissioned on July 1, 1983, Vice Admiral Singh is an alumnus of the prestigious National Defence Academy (NDA) Khadakvasla.
The long-range precision strike was carried out by members of the same squadron who carried out the actual operations.