The Defence Ministry may introduce a new recruitment model in the Indian Army that will allow the government to recruit soldiers for shorter periods of three and five years.
The Army said a Court of Inquiry had found that troops had exceeded powers vested to them under AFSPA. They had shot dead three men in the district in 2020.
India s Chief of Army Staff General MM Naravane paid homage to the brave CRPF jawans who laid down their lives in the line of duty during the terrorist attack on 14 February 2019.
Rana Pratap Kalita happens to be the first person from Assam and the Northeastern region as a whole, to have been appointed to such a senior position in the Indian Army.