New Delhi, April 23, 2012 The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed a PIL challenging the appointment of Lt Gen Bikram Singh as the next Army Chief but made it clear that its order would not affect any pending proceedings against him in cases including an alleged encounter in Jammu and Kashmir. The court also refused to reopen the age controversy relating to incumbent Army Chief Gen V.K. Singh when the petitioners raked up the issue, saying it has already been settled by the court. ...
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Washington, March 23, 2012 It might have been the U.S. army's sheer embarrassment or perhaps a desire to protect the family of the suspect. But whatever it was, the Pentagon's clumsy attempt to wipe their websites clean of all fingerprints leading to the Afghan civilian massacre suspect, Staff Sergeant Robert Bales (38), only raised more questions about the army's motives. With some questioning why five days had passed before the Pentagon identified Bales as the suspected ...
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New Delhi, February 17, 2012 Lessons have been learnt from the experience in the age row involving General V. K. Singh but there was no strain in relations between the government and the Army over the issue, Defence Minister A. K. Antony said on Friday. The Minister also stressed that the country cannot afford to have such controversies in the future and already steps have been taken to avoid them. “We have learnt lessons from it... There is no strain...Now what we ...
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New Delhi, February 14, 2012 Seeking to move forward after the Supreme Court disposed of General V.K. Singh's plea against the government decision to fix his date of birth as May 10, 1950, Defence Minister A.K. Antony on Monday underscored that the Chief of the Army Staff enjoyed the government's confidence. “The government has confidence in the present Chief, and that was conveyed in the Supreme Court also. Everything is clear, and we have confidence in him,” Mr. ...
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Jammu, February 10 Ahead of the Supreme Court verdict on his age row, the Army Chief, General VK Singh, today paid an “unscheduled” visit to Jammu and Kashmir. Official sources said the visit was not a part of his planned itinerary. The General was accompanied by Air Marshal DC Kumaria, AOC-in-C, Western Air Command, and Lt Gen AK Chowdhary, Director General Military Operations (DGMO). General Singh’s visit assumed significance in the backdrop of the apex court’s ...
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New Delhi, February 10, 2012 Pushed on the backfoot, the government on Friday told the Supreme Court that it has withdrawn its December 30 order rejecting Army Chief General V.K Singh’s statutory complaint for treating his date of birth as May 10, 1951 instead of May 10, 1950. The government’s decision to rescind the order came against the backdrop of the Apex Court stating that its December 30 order was vitiated and would be quashed if this was not done. Attorney ...
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KOCHI, February 4, 2012 Union Minister for Defence A.K. Antony on Saturday declined to comment on the Supreme Court’s criticism of the Union government over the process to fix Army Chief’s age. “My dear media persons show some more patience. The matter is before the Supreme Court,” was how he responded to reporters on the sidelines of a function here. The Supreme Court had on Friday taken the Centre to task over the issue of age of the Chief of the Army, Gen. ...
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New Delhi, February 4, 2012 The Supreme Court on Friday took the Union government to task over the issue of age of the Chief of the Army Staff, Gen. V.K. Singh, saying the government decision-making process went against the principles of natural justice and the Constitution. The court questioned the process that fixed the date of birth of Gen. Singh as May 10, 1950. It said the entire exercise “appears to be vitiated.” A Bench of Justices R.M. Lodha and H.L. Gokhale ...
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New Delhi, January 31, 2012 Laying the blame on the army’s doors for the controversy over Gen V K Singh’s age issue, Defence Minister A K Antony on Tuesday said it occured because the force kept two sets of his date of birth for 36 years and maintained there was no civil-military confrontation. “For 36 years, two branches of the same institution maintained two dates of birth and that is why this controversy,” he told reporters in New Delhi in his first detailed ...
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Dhaka, January 20, 2012 The Bangladesh Army on Thursday claimed that an attempt by some mid-ranking Army officers to topple the Sheikh Hasina government was foiled by it. “Specific information [evidence] has been unearthed that some officers in active military service were involved in a conspiracy to topple the system of democratic governance through the Army,” Army spokesman Brigadier General Muhammad Masud Razzaq said at a press briefing here. A top Army ...
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Gangtok, April 22, 2011 Four Army personnel were killed in a Dhruv helicopter crash in north Sikkim near the Sino-India border, days after a Pawan Hans chopper went down in the northeast claiming 17 lives. Wreckage of the advanced light helicopter (ALH) Dhruv, which had gone missing on Thursday, was traced in the Shiv Mandir area by Army choppers at 9.30 a.m on Friday and ground parties reached the spot an hour-and-a-half later, Eastern Army Command sources said. The bodies of two ...
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Gangtok, April 21, 2011 An Army helicopter, with two pilots and two soldiers, on Thursday went missing while flying over north Sikkim, triggering concerns over the fate of the chopper and the personnel. The Advance Light Helicopter (ALH) Dhruv of the Army Aviation Corps had taken off from Sewak Road Base in Siliguri at 10.30 a.m., Army sources said. It lost radio contact at around 11.30 a.m., the sources said adding efforts are on to locate it. The Base is under the 33 Corps ...
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NEW DELHI: From thin canvas shoes to Reebok, Adidas and Nike? Well, that would perhaps be too ambitious but the fact is that the around 10 lakh jawans of the Army will now finally get proper "sports shoes" instead of the vintage-pattern PT shoes they have been saddled with for decades. That's not all, on the footwear front. The Army is also going to soon introduce new combat boots, which will allow soldiers to function with greater efficiency in different types of weather and terrain. "In ...
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Cairo, April 9, 2011 Egypt’s Health Ministry says one person was killed and 71 injured after the army charged into a central Cairo square to disperse a protest. Hundreds of soldiers stormed the square, beating protesters with sticks and firing volleys of gunfire in the early hours of the morning to disperse a demonstration carried over from the night before. After the soldiers withdrew, protesters reoccupied the square, armed themselves with makeshift weapons and sealed off the ...
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5 April 2011 The army chief for Ivory Coast's defiant leader, Laurent Gbagbo, has called for a cease-fire. General Philippe Mangou spoke on Tuesday, as forces loyal to internationally-recognized president Alassane Ouattara continued an offensive to force Mr. Gbagbo from power. Mangou resumed his duties as army chief on Sunday after seeking refuge in the home of the South African ambassador last ...
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Dubai, March 24, 2011 The clashes between Presidential guards and the army units who have backed opposition groups and protesters asking Mr. Saleh to quit took place in the eastern Hadramout provincial town Mukalla today, Al Jazeera channel said. Yemen’s elite republican guards loyal to President Ali Abdullah Saleh today clashed with army units supporting opposition protesters seeking the resignation of the embattled leader, amid growing fears of a civil war in the country. The ...
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Manama, March 16, 2011 The full-scale assault launched at daybreak swept into Pearl Square, which has been the centre of uprising against Bahrain’s rulers since it began more than a month ago Soldiers and riot police used tear gas and armoured vehicles on Wednesday to drive out hundreds of anti—government protesters occupying a landmark square in Bahrain’s capital, a day after emergency rule was imposed in the violence—wracked Gulf kingdom. At least six people were killed, ...
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WASHINGTON, March 3, 2011 A U.S. Army private suspected of leaking hundreds of thousands of sensitive and classified documents to the WikiLeaks anti-secrecy group was charged on Tuesday with aiding the enemy, a crime that can bring the death penalty or life in prison. The Army filed 22 new charges against Pvt. 1st Class Bradley E. Manning, reflecting the allegation that the military analyst downloaded and distributed more than 250,000 confidential State Department cables as well as a ...
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Thursday Feb. 24, 2011,ETBENGHAZI, Libya — A Libyan army unit loyal to Moammar Gadhafi attacked anti-government protesters holed up in a mosque in a key city west of the capital Thursday, blasting a minaret with anti-aircraft missiles and automatic weapons, a witness said. Protesters who had been camped inside and outside the mosque suffered heavy casualties in the attack on Zawiya, 50 kilometres west of Tripoli, the witness said, but he couldn't provide an exact toll. Pro-Gadhafi ...
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New Delhi( 7star news) For the first time ever, a Lieutenant General of the Army has been sentenced to jail - in fact three years rigorous imprisonment - by a court martial. Lieutenant General SK Sahni, who retired in 2006, was accused of irregularities in procuring rations for soldiers in Jammu and Kashmir, who were stationed in Siachen and other high altitude areas. Sahni was also indicted by a report of the Controller of Auditor General (CAG) which revealed that soldiers had been given ...
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