Op Sindoor warriors dominate honours; Pilots, S-400 operators among awardeesPresident Droupadi Murmu approves 127 gallantry and 40 distinguished service awards. Most honors go to Operation Sindoor participants. Awar...
15 Aug, 2025, 12.02 AM IST
Republic Day 2025: 15 SSB personnel who killed 'most wanted' Naxalites in Bihar get gallantry medalsFifteen SSB personnel are honored with the police medal for gallantry for neutralizing six 'most wanted' Naxalites in two operations in Bih...
25 Jan, 2024, 05.50 PM IST
Indian, Chinese troops clashed twice in 2022 even as peace talks were onIndian and Chinese soldiers engaged in hand-to-hand combat at least twice in 2022 along their Himalayan border, as revealed by gallantry aw...
17 Jan, 2024, 07.49 PM IST
Air Force veteran Wing Cmdr J M Nath passes awayHe had flown into Aksai Chin and Tibet and returned with valuable inputs on the ground situation and enemy troop activities there, both bef...
21 Mar, 2023, 09.06 PM IST
NDRF DG, CRPF ASI killed in Pulwama attack awarded gallantry medalsUnion Home Secretary Ajay Bhalla pinned the medal on Karwal's uniform, while he gave the medal, awarded posthumously, to Lal's wife Sarita ...
09 Apr, 2022, 02.23 PM IST
Army's Central Command honours soldiers with service awardsThe Indian Army's Central Command on Saturday honoured its distinguished and gallant soldiers at an investiture ceremony held at its Madhya...
27 Feb, 2021, 04.11 PM IST
61 Indian Army personnel to be awarded at northern command investiture ceremonyThe northern command investiture ceremony will be organised at Dhruva auditorium at Udhampur military station on February 27 to honour the ...
23 Feb, 2021, 05.54 PM IST
16 Army personnel of South Western Command given gallantry awardsThe Army commander also conferred citations to 23 Units of the South Western Command for their exemplary performance, said Lt Col Sharma.
19 Feb, 2021, 06.16 PM IST
Vice Admiral Ajit Kumar of Western Naval Command presents awards to naval officersThese medals were- one Bar to Nausena Medal (gallantry), three Nausena Medals (gallantry), three Nausena Medals (devotion to duty), three V...
01 Oct, 2020, 03.57 PM IST
Kirti Chakra for Jammu & Kashmir cop killed during encounter; Galwan awards to come laterAlthough awards for the Galwan clash will be conferred at a later stage, ITBP has recommended 21 names for the gallantry list for their rol...
14 Aug, 2020, 11.40 PM IST
Prez approves gallantry award for defence personnel on eve of I-Day, 4 get Shaurya ChakraThose from the Army who have been awarded the Shaurya Chakra are Lt.Col. Krishan Singh Rawat from the elite Special Forces, Major Anil Urs ...
14 Aug, 2020, 07.51 PM IST
Future security challenges could be grave: NSA DovalHe expressed satisfaction that agencies like the BSF and those in the security and intelligence set-up of the country were working with bet...
22 May, 2019, 02.42 PM IST
1971 war gallantry award citations of 'Desert Scorpion' commandos destroyedDuring the 1971 war, the unit had successfully conducted surgical strikes 80 km inside Pakistan, capturing four strategic towns without suf...
06 Mar, 2019, 05.43 PM IST
Indian troops never crossed into Myanmar; operation took place in Manipur and NagalandThe cross-border strike in June to take down insurgent camps never took place in Myanmar, if the gallantry citations of the crack paratroop...
13 Jul, 2018, 05.00 PM IST
Officers who helped intercept suspicious Pakistani boat awardedThe ship was around 170 nautical miles from the spot where the suspicious boat was but proceeded with "maximum speed" to intercept it.
11 Jul, 2018, 05.39 PM IST
Indian Navy a strong force, ready for any eventuality: Navy chief Sunil LanbaLanba was here to present the President's gallantry and non-gallantry awards to the naval personnel at a ceremony held at the Eastern Naval...
11 Jul, 2018, 04.42 PM IST
BSF man, who bravely overpowered armed Naxal, wins gallantry awardSushil Kumar Pandey, then a sub-inspector, was part of a Border Security Force (BSF) team when he tackled the Naxal in a 'mela' in the Raog...
24 Jan, 2018, 09.02 PM IST