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  Major Varadarajan to get Ashoka Chakra posthumously, President approves 55 gallantry awards

  India | August 15, 2014 6:45 IST

  New 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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  Major Varadarajan cremated with full state honours

  India | April 28, 2014 15:45 IST

  Chennai: The body of Major Mukund Varadarajan, who was killed during an encounter with terrorists in Shopian area of Kashmir last Friday, was on Monday cremated with full state honours.Tamil Nadu Minister T.K.M. Chinnaya and