Delayed Recognition
Every democracy owes two debts to its soldiers. The first is to equip them well enough to fight.
Every democracy owes two debts to its soldiers. The first is to equip them well enough to fight.
The Centre on Saturday rejected what it described as the misrepresentation of Defence Minister Rajnath Singh's address in Parliament on July 28, 2025, regarding Operation Sindoor.
President Murmu was addressing a group of Officer Trainees of Military Engineer Services (MES), 2023 and 2024 batches, who called on her at Rashtrapati Bhavan.
Kaja Kallas, the EU’s High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and former Estonian premier, stated during Operation Sindoor, “Rising tensions between India and Pakistan are alarming.
A viral video claiming that Lieutenant General Devendra Sharma, General Officer Commanding-in-Chief (GOC-in-C), Army Training Command, raised concerns over five aviators allegedly missing after participating in "Operation Sindoor" has been found to be digitally manipulated, with the Indian Army's fact-checking handle terming it a deliberate attempt to spread false narratives.
Modi, who also released a special coin and commemorative stamp marking the 350th Shaheedi Diwas of Sri Guru Tegh Bahadur, the revered ninth Sikh Guru, said, “New India neither fears nor stops, and it does not bend before terrorism.”
The US-China Economic and Security Review Commission, a US Congress-created advisory body, accused China on Tuesday of masterminding a disinformation campaign after Operation Sindoor, as part of its Gray Zone activities to use “fake social media accounts to propagate AI images of supposed ‘debris’ from planes.”
Emphasising that India has consistently prioritised development and cooperation, the Army Chief said that state-backed terrorism leaves New Delhi with no option but to act.
However, officials maintain that security arrangements for tourists remain robust and that local authorities continue to monitor all developments closely in the valley.
The Siliguri Corridor, which runs through West Bengal and borders Bangladesh, Nepal, China’s Chumbi Valley in Tibet, and the Kingdom of Bhutan, is just 17 kilometres wide at its narrowest point.
