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NEW DELHI: A PIL has been filed in the Supreme Court seeking a direction to set up a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe the damage to public properties including that of railways and violent protests against the Centre's Agnipath…

CHANDIGARH: Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann on Saturday demanded a rollback of the Agnipathrecruitment scheme for defence services and said those who cleared physical tests in the last two years must get a chance to appear in…

NEW DELHI: Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Saturday held a meeting with the top brass of the Army, Navy and the Air Force on the overall situation arising out of the rollout of the 'Agnipath' military recruitment scheme as protests…

Army chief Manoj Pande. (File photo)HYDERABAD: Transformational reformsare underway in the armed forces even as the country's active borders and equally challenging internal threats mandate a very high level of operational preparedness,…

As the protests against Central Government's army recruitment scheme 'Agnipath' saw attack on railway property, the Southern Railway has increased security at all major stations across Tamil Nadu, including Chennai Central, Tiruppur,…

HYDERABAD: The Agnipath scheme has reduced their years of preparation and desire to join the Army to naught, rued aspirants who came out to protest against it at the Secunderabadrailway station on Friday. “I cleared my physical and…

NEW DELHI: Confronted with unabated protests against the new Agnipathscheme in the country, defence minister Rajnath Singh and the three military chiefs once again stepped forward on Friday to staunchly defend the short-term induction…

NEW DELHI: The Army on Friday said that it aims to start training of recruits under the Centre's new Agnipathscheme by December this year and deploy them in operational and non-operational roles by the middle of next year. In an…

Former Union minister and RJD leader Sharad Yadav (ANI photo)NEW DELHI: Former Union minister and RJD leader Sharad Yadav on Friday said the 'Agnipath' scheme is not a reform but an "attempt to damage" the existing system of recruitment…

Union minister and former Army chief General V K Singh (retd) on Friday accused the opposition parties of creating a controversy over the Centre's Agnipath scheme for short-term recruitment in the defence forces by "provoking" people.…