Gallantry Award
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Balakot hero Abhinandan Varthaman gets Vir Chakra, Shaurya Chakra for Major Dhoundiyal
India | November 22, 2021 12:41 ISTPresident Ram Nath Kovind on Monday conferred the Vir Chakra gallantry award to Indian Air Force ace pilot Group Captain Abhinandan Varthaman for shooting down a Pakistani F-16 fighter aircraft on February 27, 2019.
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75th Independence Day: 1,380 police personnel awarded medals
India | August 14, 2021 18:06 ISTThe President's Police Medal is a decoration awarded to the Police personnel in India. Established on March 1, 1951, the medal was originally called the President's Police and Fire Service Medal.
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Army Day: 15 Armymen to be awarded Sena Medal for gallantry in counter terror operations
India | January 15, 2021 8:32 ISTA total of 15 Indian Army officers and soldiers will be awarded the Sena Medal, five of them posthumously, on Army Day on Friday for gallantry during counter-terror operations in Jammu & Kashmir.
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Gallantry Awards 2020 Declared: Full list of bravehearts who'll be honoured on 74th I-Day
India | August 14, 2020 19:31 ISTAugust 15 is our independence day. The day is to remember our freedom fighters who fought till the end to free our country from the clutches of the British. It is also the day to honour our bravehearts, the soldiers who gambled even their lives to ensure that the enemy does not enter our territory.
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DIG South Kashmir Atul Goel, who caught DSP Davinder Singh, awarded gallantry medal
India | August 14, 2020 18:08 ISTJammu and Kashmir police’s Deputy Inspector General Atul Kumar Goel, who broke a police-terrorist nexus by arresting now-suspended DSP Davinder Singh, is among 81 personnel of the force who have been awarded police medals for gallantry.
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ITBP recommends 21 men, who faced the Chinese during Galwan skirmish, for gallantary medals
India | August 14, 2020 14:52 ISTThe Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) has recommended the names of at least 21 of its men for gallantry medals that faced the Chinese during faceoffs and skirmishes in Galwan Valley in Eastern Ladakh in May-June.
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DSP Davinder Singh's gallantry award forfeited
India | January 16, 2020 12:14 ISTThe Jammu and Kashmir administration on Wednesday "forfeited" the Sher-e-Kashmir Police Medal for Gallantry awarded to Deputy Superintendent of Police Davinder Singh, who has been arrested for helping terrorists travel out of JK, an official order said.
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IAF to recommend Wg Cdr Abhinandan Varthaman for Vir Chakra
India | April 20, 2019 19:50 ISTAbhinandan is the only pilot in the world to have shot down an F-16 combat aircraft from his vintage MiG-21 Bison aircraft on February 27 during aerial conflict with Pakistan.
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Govt removes norm restricting allowance to widow of gallantry awardee
India | November 21, 2017 19:05 ISTAs per existing norm, the payment of the allowance is continued to a widow until her death or if she re-marries, then the spouse has to be the late husband's brother.
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Accounts of gallantry awardees offer first official insight into ‘surgical strikes’
India | January 31, 2017 14:09 ISTThe Republic Day which saw 22 soldiers being honoured for their role in the surgical strikes carried out by the Indian Army in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir last year, turned out to be the first instance providing official details of the covert operation
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Gallantry award for 3 soldiers who gunned down Burhan Wani
India | January 26, 2017 20:54 ISTThree personnel of Rashtriya Rifles who gunned down Hizbul Mujahideen commander Burhan Wani in July last year, have been awarded with the Sena Medal.
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Army Special Forces jawans who carried out surgical strikes across LoC honoured with gallantry awards
India | January 25, 2017 21:54 ISTNineteen soldiers of the 4 and 9 Para, the special forces's units which undertook the cross-border surgical strike across the LoC in September last year, have been awarded gallantry medals.
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Pathankot attack: NSG recommends Lt Col Niranjan, four-legged hero for gallantry award
India | April 24, 2016 18:17 ISTNew Delhi: India may soon have its first four-legged gallantry award winner as the National Security Guard (NSG) has recommended its dog ‘Rocket’ along with slain officer Lt Col Niranjan and two others for gallantry
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How do we reward the Men in Uniform? A look at the reward extended to Gallantry Award Winners
India | August 19, 2015 12:05 ISTThe Men in Uniform guard our borders and spend a major part of their life serving the country. They risk their lives in a bid to save the nation. The least we could do is
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Army Officer dies day after getting Gallantry Award
India | January 27, 2015 18:58 ISTKashmir: An officer of the Indian Army died battling a group of terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir's Pulwama district a day after winning a gallantry award.Colonel Munindra Nath Rai, the commanding officer of the 44
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Major Varadarajan to get Ashoka Chakra posthumously, President approves 55 gallantry awards
India | August 15, 2014 6:45 ISTNew Delhi: India's highest peacetime gallantry award Ashoka Chakra will be conferred on Major Mukund Varadarajan posthumously, the defence ministry has said.The officer from the 44th battalion of Rashtriya Rifles laid down his life in
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