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Prez approves 132 gallantry awards, Vir Chakra for Wing Commander Abhinand
Updated : 6 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Aug 14 (ANI): President Ram Nath Kovind has approved 132 gallantry awards to armed forces personnel and members of paramilitary forces including third highest gallantry award, Vir Chakra for Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman, who shot down a PAF F-16 during the dogfight
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President confers medals to Fire Service, Home Guards, Civil Defence perso
Updated : 6 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India] Aug 14 (ANI): President Ramnath Kovind has awarded 'Fire Service Medals' to 56 personnel and 'Home Guard and Civil Defence Medals' to 44 personnel on the occasion of India's 73rd Independence Day.
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Wg Cdr Abhinandan awarded Vir Chakra for shooting down Pakistani F-16
Updated : 6 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi (India), Aug 14 (ANI): Wg Cdr Abhinandan Varthaman, who shot down a Pakistani F-16 fighter jet during the February 27 aerial conflict with Pakistan, has been awarded the third-highest wartime gallantry award, Vir Chakra.
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PM Modi met father of PVC awardee late Captain Vikram Batra
Updated : 6 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi (India), July 27 (ANI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi met GL Batra, father of Captain Vikram Batra, who was posthumously awarded the Param Vir Chakra, India's highest gallantry award for Kargil War, at the Kargil Vijay Diwas event here on Saturday.
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Kargil veteran Lt Col Dr Samir Rawat first officer invited to Internationa
Updated : 6 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi (India), July 25 (ANI/NewsVoir): Exactly twenty years ago, then Major Samir Rawat unfurled the National Flag atop icy peaks after recapturing enemy-held positions in Batalik sector of Kargil in 1999 and was conferred a President's gallantry award for bravery in face of the enemy
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Army goodwill school renamed after Kashmiri Ashok Chakra awardee
Updated : 6 years, 11 months ago IST
Anantnag (Jammu and Kashmir) [India], June 20 (ANI): An Army goodwill school in Wuzur, Qazikund, was renamed on Thursday after Lance Naik Nazir Ahmad Wani, who lost his life in a counter-terrorism operation last year, and was posthumously awarded the Ashok Chakra, the highest peacetime galla
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IAF recommending Wg Cdr Abhinandan for wartime gallantry award 'Vir Chakra
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi (India), Apr 20 (ANI) The India Air Force is recommending Wg Cdr Abhinandan Varthaman for the wartime gallantry medal Vir Chakra for shooting down an F-16 in aerial conflict with Pakistan.
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CNS Admiral Sunil Lanba confers gallantry, non-gallantry awards on Navy pe
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], Apr 10 (ANI): Chief of Naval Staff (CNS) Admiral Sunil Lanba conferred the gallantry and non-gallantry medals on various Navy personnel here on Wednesday at an Investiture Ceremony held at the naval helicopter base INS Shikra of Western Naval Command (WNC).
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President Kovind presents gallantry awards to valiant soldiers
Updated : 7 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], March 19 (ANI): Sepoy Vijay Kumar of the Indian Army on Tuesday was conferred with the Kirti Chakra posthumously for displaying indomitable courage during the counter-terrorist operations in Jammu and Kashmir.
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TN Chief Minister Palaniswami seeks Param Vir Chakra for Wing Commander Ab
Updated : 7 years, 2 months ago IST
Chennai (Tamil Nadu) [India], Mar 8 (ANI): Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Thiru Edappadi K Palaniswami on Friday requested the Centre to honour Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman with Param Vir Chakra for displaying most “inimitable gallantry” and “valour.”
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Sena medal for Lance Naik Wani
Updated : 7 years, 3 months ago IST
Udhampur (Jammu and Kashmir) [India], Feb 8 (ANI): Lance Naik Nazir Ahmad Wani, who is a recipient of Ashok Chakra, the nation's highest peacetime award, was on Thursday posthumously presented with Bar to Sena Medal (Gallantry) by the General Officer Commanding in Chief of Northern Command L
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Smriti hails Lance Naik Wani, says he believed in idea of India
Updated : 7 years, 3 months ago IST
Bengaluru [Karnataka], Jan 26 (ANI): Union Minister of Textiles Smriti Irani on Saturday hailed late Lance Naik Nazir Ahmad Wani, who received India’s highest peacetime gallantry honour, Ashoka Chakra, on Saturdy.
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