Coursemate recalls time spent with him during training at Officers Training Academy, Chennai Mysore/Mysuru: Col. Ashutosh Sharma SM, who was killed in action in the recent Handwara Terrorists Operations, had undergone training at the Officers Training Academy (OTA), Chennai and was from the 2001 batch. Disclosing this to ‘Star of Mysore,’ Major (Retd.) Nayakanda Cariappa,…
Mysore/Mysuru: Kuttanda Ranjan Cariappa, Athletic Coach at the Madras Regiment Centre of Indian Army in Wellington, Ooty, has been promoted to the post of Subedar. He will discharge his duty as Subedar at Wellington. He hails from Hadageri village of Madapura in Kodagu and is the son of late Cariappa and Kasturi.
New Delhi: India’s Armed Forces will conduct fly-pasts, light up ships at sea and shower flower petals on hospitals in an elaborate display on Sunday (May 3) to thank doctors, medical staff and other frontline workers battling the COVID-19 outbreak, Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) General Bipin Rawat said on Friday. “The Air Force will…
Shimla: Lieutenant General P.C. Thimayya, who was serving as the 21st General Officer Commanding-in-Chief of the Army Training Command (GOC-in-C, ARTRAC) here, retired from service after duty hours on April 30, 2020, an Army official said. Lieutenant General Pattacheruvanda Chengappa Thimayya, PVSM, VSM, ADC, had assumed office on Nov. 1, 2018 from Lt. Gen. Manoj…
Agra: Lieutenant General Codanda Poovaiah Cariappa assumed charge as General Officer Commanding of the elite First Strike Corps at Mathura yesterday. Alumnus of National Defence Academy and Indian Military Academy, Cariappa was commissioned on June 9, 1984 into the 4th Battalion of the Rajputana Rifles. He is an expert in manoeuvre warfare, counter terrorism and…
New Delhi: Preparing itself for the fight against the COVID-19, Indian Army has launched an operation. The operation is named ‘Operation Namastey’. Army Chief Gen Manoj Mukund Naravane made the announcement on Friday. As a part of the operation Army would helpthe Government of India fight against the deadly disease. The operation also aims to insulate the 1.3 million strong force fromcoronavirus infection….
New Delhi: A 34-year-old soldier has tested positive for novel Coronavirus in Leh, Army sources said today. As a precautionary measure, ten soldiers who shared a barrack with the infected soldier, have also been kept in quarantine. Meanwhile, around 800 men in Ladakh Regimental Centre have been kept under lock-down. This is the first COVID-19…
25 soldiers to act as front line conservationists in protecting the Tiger Reserve By M.T. Yogesh Kumar Mysore/Mysuru: “A soldier is the very basis, the silent and barely visible cornerstone, of our fame, culture, physical well-being and prosperity; in short, of the entire nation-building activity.” Selfless, versatile, resourceful and incredibly dedicated, the Indian Army is…
Gonikoppa: The body of Cheeranda Rachan Bopanna (22), a soldier who was undergoing training at the Indian Army camp in Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh, was found hanging in a guest house in Pune yesterday. It is said that Rachan Bopanna, son of Cheeranda P. Somaiah and Bharati and a native of Mugutageri village in Virajpet, was…
Madikeri: A Jawan from Kodagu is undergoing treatment at the Army Hospital in Chandigarh after he sustained bullet injuries in an anti-terror operation in Jammu & Kashmir on May 29. H.N. Mahesh, a native of Ponnampet in Virajpet taluk of Kodagu district, who is serving in the 44th Rashtriya Rifles Regiment is the injured. Mahesh,…
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