Rahul Gandhi has appealed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to grant martyr status to those who died in the Pahalgam terror attack. He convey...

"I stand with the families of those killed in the Pahalgam attack in their grief and in their demand for martyr status. The Prime Minister ...

MHA officials refused to comment on the matter, but ET has reliably learnt that the issue is under active consideration of the government.

He said this in response to a question on 'martyr' status to the jawans during an interaction with students at the JLN Stadium.

Rijiju said the eight CRPF personnel who lost their lives in Pulwama in Jammu and Kashmir on Saturday will certainly be considered as marty...

The petitioner said that their plea was to accord pride and honour to the force personnel by granting to them, honour of 'martyr' or 'shahe...

Associations of retired paramilitary forces and those serving them have been seeking martyr status for personnel, who sacrificed their live...

The government said that "in army/navy/air force, the nomenclature for the word 'martyr' is battle casuality and physical casuality.

The petition also sought a direction to maintain proper records of paramilitary armed forces personnel who have sacrificed their lives till...

The notice was issued by the court after Additional Solicitor General Sanjay Jain, submitted that the central government has no such scheme.

The petitioner failed to reply to the court's query on whether there is any law under which the court has the power to issue any such direc...

A person who commits suicide cannot be termed a martyr, the Delhi High Court today told the AAP government which had conferred the status o...

The CAPFs like CRPF, BSF, ITBP, CISF, SSB and NSG have made representations to the Union Home Ministry that 'shaheed' salutation is being d...

Ministry of Defence indicated that shaheed/martyr is not defined anywhere and presently they are not issuing any order/notification to this...

"To be more precise, it seems to be looking for a wanton martyr's status. This is sheer nonsense," the CPI's mouthpiece 'New Age' said in a...

The central police forces, at present, are only authorised to issue pension related benefits to the killed personnel's family and receive g...

While the country today commemorated the sacrifice of its police & paramilitary personnel killed in the line of duty, the govt is yet to ac...