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China’s expanding infrastructure in Shaksgam Valley is opening a northern approach to Siachen, shifting India’s security calculus from a Pakistan-focused threat to a dual-front challenge involving China.
A member of the Snow Leopard Brigade, Koul earned this distinction following the successful completion of training at the Siachen Battle School.
Captain Shiva Chauhan will be deployed at Siachen Glacier, the world's highest battlefield. After a rigorous one-month training at the Siachen Battle School alongside other officers of the Indian Army. Captain Chauhan will be leading the team of Sappers entrusted with the task of carrying out various combat engineering assignments. So who is she? Watch this video to find out.
Captain Shiva Chauhan from the Corps of Engineers has been posted at a frontline post in Siachen Glacier, in first such operational deployment of an woman Army officer at the world's highest battlefield.
Indian Army has retrieved remains of one of its soldiers 38 years after, struck by an avalanche, he went missing in Siachen. A look at the world’s highest battlefield and the dangers soldiers face to keep it safe.
The Siachen Glacier region often faces zero visibility and the soldiers have to carry on their duties in inhuman conditions. In the video, the Siachen Warriors are seen trudging along in a snow covered region with the Indian flag before hoisting it.
Last week, the CAG had informed Parliament that there were deficiencies in the Army supplies for the audit period of 2015-16 to 2017-18.
The shortage is so acute that in the absence of special ration, the calorie intake of the Indian Army soldiers posted in the remote snowy reaches has gone down by 82 percent, CAG said
Avalanches and landslides are common at the glacier during the winter and temperatures can drop to as low as minus 60 degrees Celsius
The victims were missing in one of the world's most unforgiving environments, at an altitude of 19,600 feet (5,974 metres) on the Siachen Glacier that India and Pakistan have fought over intermittently for years, beginning in 1984.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi who is scheduled to spend this Diwali with the flood-hit victims of Jammu and Kashmir is also visiting the soldiers posted at Siachen Glacier.
India and Pakistan on Monday began their first attempt in three years to demilitarise the Siachen glacier, the world's highest battlefield in the Himalayan region, that has claimed the lives of hundreds of soldiers.
