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Rajat Pandit
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Journalist, The Times of India (@timesofindia). Defence|Strategic Affairs|Politics|Films|Books|Cartoons|Dogs. Views personal. RTs not endorsements!
Jul 19, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
As many as 819 personnel of the Army, Navy & IAF have died by suicide in the last five years, apart from cases of “fratricide”, which once again underlines the need for better suicide prevention and stress management policies in the over 14-lakh strong armed forces. #SuicideWatch The 12-lakh Army lost 642 soldiers to suicides in the last five years, while the number was 148 in IAF and 29 in Navy, said minister of state for defence Ajay Bhatt, in a written reply in Rajya Sabha. #SuicideWatch
Jul 17, 2022 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
Meanwhile, the annual IAF Day flypast & parade on October 8 will be held in Chandigarh this year, instead of the Hindon airbase on the outskirts of Delhi, in line with the government’s directive to take major events out of the NCR to different parts of the country #IAFDay Image The airshow, which includes frontline fighters like Rafales and Sukhoi-30MKIs as well as transport aircraft, helicopters and vintage planes, will be held over the famous Sukhna lake in Chandigarh. #IAFDay Image
Jun 12, 2021 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Defence minister @rajnathsingh has approved the policy on archiving, declassification and compilation/publication of war/operations histories by the Ministry of Defence. #WarHistory The policy envisages that each organisation under the MoD like the Services, Integrated Defence Staff, Assam Rifles & Coast Guard will transfer the records, including war diaries, letters of proceedings & operational record books to MoD’s History Division
Jan 27, 2021 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
In the first such contact after the Biden administration took over, defence minister
@rajnathsingh spoke to his US counterpart
@SecDef Lloyd Austin. They reiterated their firm commitment to deepen India-US defence cooperation, while exchanging views on regional & global issues Austin, the first African American US secretary of defence, has made similar introductory telephone calls to his counterparts in UK, Japan, South Korea, Canada and Australia, among others, over the last few days.
Dec 27, 2019 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
In yet another indication the government is all set to announce the name of the country’s first-ever chief of defence staff #CDS, a pre-scheduled ceremony for the ceremonial transfer of the baton of chairman of chiefs of staff committee was deferred at the last minute on Friday. Outgoing Army chief General Bipin Rawat, who completes his three-year tenure on December 31, was supposed to hand over the baton to Navy Chief Admiral Karambir Singh at the ceremony on Friday. “But it has been deferred to December 31,” said an official.
Apr 23, 2019 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Andaman Nicobar Command chief Vice Admiral Bimal Verma has once again moved the armed forces tribunal (AFT) to challenge his supersession for the Navy chief’s post after the defence ministry failed to respond to his statutory complaint within 10 days. Vice Adm Verma, in New Delhi to attend the naval commanders’ conference inaugurated by defence minister Nirmala Sitharaman today, had earlier on April 9 withdrawn his petition after AFT told him to follow due procedure by first lodging his statutory complaint with the MoD