women in army

Haryana resident Shanan Dhaka has topped the first women’s batch of the National Defence Academy exam. Until last year, women were not permitted to sit for the exam.

The country’s premier mountaineering institute, Nehru Institute of Mountaineering (NIM), in association with NGO Youth Foundation Uttarakhand, will be conducting intensive training to help women qualify as jawans in the Army’s Corps of Military Police (CMP).

Enrolled as Cadet no 001, Priya Jhingan became the first woman cadet to join the Indian Army alongside a batch of 25 other feisty women – the first batch of women who became trailblazers for women in the armed forces.

Never in the history of the Mamluk dynasty, had the title of ‘Sultan’ bestowed upon or used to address a woman, because a woman had never ruled before.

The Indian Army does not allow women to serve on submarines, tank units, and in combat.

A contingent of 500 women personnel was commissioned into the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) at Panchkula’s Bhanu Camp on Friday. This is the first time that ITBP is deploying a 'mahila' squad at the front, in such high-altitude posts along the 3,488-km Sino-India Line of Actual Control (LAC).

Shanti Tigga was no ordinary woman. She was the first female jawan in the Indian Army, and she achieved this feat when she was 35 and had two children. Here are some more amazing facts about the brave lady who makes us proud.