Balakot Air Strike

From revealing details of dialing Pakistan's top authorities after the Balakot strike to reiterating 'ghar mein ghuske marenge' call, here's what PM Modi at a poll rally in Bagalkot

Air Chief Marshal VR Chaudhari on Tuesday highlighted the critical importance of India's air power considering the nature of its adversaries and said the Balakot operations of 2019 demonstrated its effectiveness even in a 'no war, no peace' scenario and under a "nuclear overhang". The Chief of Air Staff said air power has become an option of choice due to "inherent flexibility" and "unmatched" precision strike capability. "Operations like Balakot have also demonstrated that given the political will, aerospace power can be effectively used in a no war, no peace scenario, under a nuclear overhang without escalating into a full blown conflict," he said. "This is very important given the nature of our adversaries. The response options available to the leadership have suddenly increased and increasingly, air power has become an option of choice due to inherent flexibility and unmatched precision strike capability," he said. Air Chief Marshal Chaudhari was speaking at a seminar on ...

As the Balakot airstrikes completed three years on Saturday, UP CM Yogi Adityanath saluted the extraordinary valour of 'Indian Air Force' and said that these soldiers will always be remembered.

The officer was involved in a dog fight with Pakistani fighter aircraft and was awarded a Shaurya Chakra for taking down an F-16 combat aircraft during the engagement

The Indian Air Force carried out a long range precision strike against a practice target

"On the anniversary of Balakot Air Strikes, I salute the exceptional courage and diligence of the Indian Air Force"

Leaking of official secrets of military operations is treason and those involved in it must be punished, the Congress said on the purported WhatsApp chats of Republic TV editor-in-chief Arnab Goswami

When asked if the Air Force is ready to take out any terrorist camp or launchpad across the Line of Control Bhadauria said, "If the situation demands so, of course, Indian Air Force is ready 24x7"

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Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat said: 'Deterrence comes from keeping every personnel trained and motivated'

A realistic assessment will tell us that not much has changed between India and Pakistan since Balakot; the relationship remains as fraught as before with little prospect of reconciliation

India's approach in dealing with terrorism has undergone a major change as its armed forces now do not hesitate to cross the border to protect the country against the menace, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said on the first anniversary of the Balakot air strike. A fleet of Indian Air Force aircraft had bombed a terrorist training camp deep inside Pakistan on February 26 last year to avenge the killing of 40 Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel in the Pulwama terror attack on February 14. "I thank the Prime Minister Shri @narendramodi for bringing change in India's approach against terrorism & our ways to counter terror. "The Surgical Strikes of 2016 and Balakote Air Strikes of 2019 are testimony to this change. This is certainly a New and Confident India in making," Singh said in a series of tweets.

Tensions flared up between India and Pakistan after the convoy of 78 buses, in which around 2500 CRPF personnel were travelling from Jammu to Srinagar, came under attack

DSP Davinder Singh was caught transporting two Hizbul Mujahideen terrorists and a overground worker

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Pounding a terror facility inside Pakistan's hinterland reflected a major shift in India's approach in dealing with cross border terror

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