CDS 1 2026 Notification [Exam date, eligibility, syllabus and books]

CDS 1 2026 Notification CDS 1 2026 Notification [Exam date, eligibility, syllabus and books to prepare]. UPSC will be conducting the CDS exam to recruit candidates for course conducted by Indian Military Academy, Indian Naval Academy, Air Force Academy and Officers Training Academy. CDS is a national level exam conducted twice a year in the […]

NDA (1) 2026 Notification (Eligibility, syllabus, exam date and books)

NDA 1 2026 Notification NDA 1 2026 Notification (Check eligibility, syllabus, exam date and books to prepare). UPSC will release the notification for NDA & NA (1) 2026 on 10th December 2025. UPSC NDA & NA Exam is held twice a year for recruiting candidates to join the prestigious National Defence Academy. The candidates applying […]

Cyber Warfare Is Getting Real

In 2022, an American dressed in his pajamas took down North Korea’s internet from his living room. Fortunately, there was no reprisal against the United States. But Kim Jong Un and his generals must have weighed retaliation and asked themselves whether the so-called independent hacker was a front for a planned and official American attack. In […]

Meet Deepak Kandpal : From Taxi Driver’s Son to NDA’s Best Cadet

Meet Deepak Kandpal Cadet Adjutant Deepak Kandpal from Garud in Uttarakhand’s Bageshwar district has emerged as the best cadet of the National Defence Academy’s 2025 batch, earning the President’s Gold Medal at the 149th Passing Out Parade in Pune. Deepak grew up in modest circumstances where his father worked as a taxi driver, and the […]

Angad Singh – The man from zone5aviation – Bharat-Rakshak.com

If you saw some fantastic photos of Indian military aircraft on the internet with the source being “zone5aviation” then you have stumbled upon the work of Angad Singh, a seasoned aerospace analyst, author and photographer. Angad has worked closely with the Indian Air Force, Navy and Army for over a decade. While not wielding a […]

The Sanjay Simha Collection – Bharat-Rakshak.com

Military action has fascinated Sanjay Simha all his life, not only for their precision and planning, but also for the speed at which platforms annihilate assigned targets. A first generation entrepreneur – in the business of Logistics, and Business Process Outsourcing, Sanjay has carried forward his passion by following the armed forces with his camera. […]

Ironies of Indo China Clash at Galwan – Bharat-Rakshak.com

       It is ironical that two countries which are nuclear neighbors’ with modern armies resorted to using primitive means such as sticks, stones and clubs to bludgeon each other to death when their soldiers clashed in the icy heights of Galwan Valley in Eastern Ladakh on 16 Jun. The resultant death of twenty Indian Army […]

Info war on Indo-China Clash – Bharat-Rakshak.com

  by Air Marshal Harish Masand The tragic events at Galwan River Valley on the night of June 15th resulting in the loss of 20 Indian bravehearts, with perhaps an equal number of casualties on the Chinese side, have once again brought in sharp focus China’s duplicity and deception in the current face-off at the […]

Of Mice & Men – Time to Take on the Neighbourhood Bully – Bharat-Rakshak.com

Georg Hegel says we learn from History that we have never learnt from History. In the context of Indo-Sino relations, this couldn’t be more true. 58 years after getting our tail tweaked, not so much by the Chinese but by our own inept handling of the situation, we as a people and a nation are […]

Revisiting Bharat Rakshak’s origins – Bharat-Rakshak.com

Where is the Bharat-Rakshak Website hosted? Who Runs it? What is the the privacy policy? Who pays you off? Why are you so secretive? Whats your agenda? Are you snooping on us? etc etc… A short primer on the first and the oldest web portal on the Indian Armed Forces.&nbsp The Bharat-Rakshak.com web portal, as […]