Why not a separate Armed Forces Pay Board?

02 Jan
2009

by Rishabh Srivastava | Tags: , , ,

Defence Chiefs were not happy with the 6th Pay Commission recommendations and now the government has fuelled the resentment in the forces even more. The government should take steps to save the military and its veterans from despondency.

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“Do you have it in you?” - A shortage of officers in our Defense Forces

23 Oct
2007

by Rishabh Srivastava | Tags:

There’s no shortage of patriotism in our country but why is it that there’s such a shortage of officers in the armed forces.
The Indian army has launched a massive awareness drive to get young people in the force. They were recently in my college to throw some light on avenues for engineers in Army. The [...]

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The Kashmir Conundrum

11 Oct
2007

by michael | Tags: , , , , , ,

Kashmir – An area of conflict in South Asia that hasn’t seen peace, freedom and security for a very long while. After several hundred years of imperial rule, part of Kashmir became a part of the Secular, Democratic, Republic of India while the other part became a part of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. [...]

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POWs: Let’s bring our heroes back

11 Sep
2007

by Rishabh Srivastava | Tags: , ,

DID YOU KNOW that there are still 54 Indian soldiers incarcerated in Pakistani prisons post the Indo-Pak war of 1971? It is an irony that even after the comprehensive victory, India could not negotiate freedom for her soldiers who were trapped by the enemy in the heat of war.
These prisoners are no ordinary mortals. They [...]

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Vijay Divas: Paying tribute to Kargil Heroes

26 Jul
2007

by Rishabh Srivastava | Tags: ,

TODAY IS JULY 26TH; it was on this day two years ago when floods gripped Mumbai city and many people lost their lives. Let’s pay our homage to the people who became victims of nature on that day.
Now let me take you few years back when the whole nation stood behind great Indian Armed Forces [...]

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