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Ukraine: Hollywood star Angelina Jolie’s local driver detained and drafted into military during her visit to frontier city facing Russian bombing

OpIndia Staff - 6 November, 2025

Hollywood actor Angelina Jolie’s ongoing visit to Ukraine turned dramatic on Wednesday, when her local driver was detained and drafted into the military. The...

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Inside Xi Jinping’s latest purge: Why China just expelled its No. 2 general and eight top commanders before a crucial Communist Party session

Divya Bharti - 18 October, 2025

China's government has fired nine top generals, including military second-in-command He Weidong, for corruption.

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DRDO is building a hypersonic bunker buster that can strike 3,000 km deep into Pakistan or China and destroy underground targets: Read what India...

श्रवण शुक्ल - 4 July, 2025

India is quietly building a game-changing Agni-V bunker-buster missile capable of destroying enemy nuclear sites buried 100 meters underground without crossing the nuclear threshold.

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Military intelligence and Maharashtra police bust fake army recruitment racket, man impersonating army major arrested for running recruitment training camps

ANI - 13 September, 2024

In a joint operation, military intelligence and Maharashtra police arrested a man impersonating an army major for allegedly running a massive fake recruitment racket across several states.

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Union govt approves plans to build two military airfields in Lakshadweep amid rising Chinese activities in the region

ANI - 18 July, 2024

India on Thursday approved a major plan to build military airfields in Lakshadweep island territories to keep an eye on growing Chinese activities in the region and expand its reach.

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Lt Colonel Karanbir Singh Natt, who was in coma after encounter with terrorists in Kupwara, dies after 8 years

OpIndia Staff - 25 December, 2023

Lt Col Karanbir Singh Natt was leading a combing operation against terrorists holed up in a village near Kupwara at the time of the incident

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Another coup in West Africa as Gabon military leaders grab power, claim that general elections ‘lacked credibility’

ANI - 30 August, 2023

Gabon became the third African nation after Burkina Faso and Niger to see a change of guard through a military coup in 2023.

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Military rulers of Niger threaten to kill deposed president Mohammad Bazoum if foreign countries try to intervene to restore the govt

OpIndia Staff - 10 August, 2023

Niger junta have warned that they’d kill deposed president if there is any military intervention

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‘We don’t want your money, use it to sponsor a weight loss program for Victoria Nuland’: Niger’s military rulers tell USA

Sanghamitra - 10 August, 2023

Victoria Nuland was allowed to meet only the new military chief of staff Brigadier General Moussa Salaou Barmou, not the new leader General Abdourahamane Tchiani or the deposed President Bazoum.

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