Peacetime Award

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  Colonel Manpreet Who Was Killed In Action In J&K Awarded Kirti Chakra

  Colonel Manpreet Singh, who was killed in action while leading from the front in an anti-terror operation in Jammu Kashmir's Anantnag last September has been posthumously awarded the Kirti Chakra, the second-highest peacetime gallantry award.

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  Watch: She Shudders In Grief. President Walks Up To Her Instead.

  With sighs and sobs, a broken mother from Kashmir today received a Shaurya Chakra, the country's third highest gallantry award for peacetime, on behalf of her son, who died in the line of duty in an anti-terror operation in 2019.

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  Exclusive: In Close Combat, A Major Led Team In Surgical Strike, They Killed 4

  Among the 22 soldiers who were honoured on Republic Day for their roles in the surgical strikes against Pakistan, the top award of the Kirti Chakra, the second-highest peacetime decoration, was conferred upon a Major, who killed four people (terrorists and possibly their Pakistani Army handlers, according to sources) in close combat.

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  Will Sonam 'Find Herself' With Neerja? Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra Answers

  Neerja documents the story of Neerja Bhanot, who was killed in the 1986 hijacking of Pan Am Flight 73 in Karachi. Ms Bhanot, who was 23, died while shielding a group of children from gunfire and became the youngest ever recipient of the Ashok Chakra, India's highest peacetime gallantry award

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  What Neerja Bhanot's Mother Told Sonam Kapoor When They Met

  Neerja documents the story of Neerja Bhanot, who was killed in the 1986 hijacking of Pan Am Flight 73 in Karachi. Ms Bhanot, who was 23, died while shielding a group of children from gunfire and became the youngest ever recipient of the Ashok Chakra, India's highest peacetime gallantry award

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  Braveheart Honoured For Killing 10 Terrorists In 11 Days

  Lance Naik Mohan Nath Goswami, who killed 10 terrorists in 11 days before being martyred in Jammu and Kashmir, was posthumously awarded the Ashok Chakra, the country's highest peacetime gallantry award, by President Pranab Mukherjee.

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  Bravehearts Who Caught Pakistani Terrorist Naveed to Get Shaurya Chakra

  The two young men from Udhampur in Jammu and Kashmir who overpowered and handed over Pakistani terrorist Mohammad Naveed to the police last week, will get the Shaurya Chakra, India's third-highest peacetime gallantry award, on August 15, Independence Day.

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  Ashok Chakra for Mukund Varadarajan, Neeraj Kumar Who Died Fighting Terrorists

  India's highest peacetime gallantry award, the Ashoka Chakra, has been given posthumously to two soldiers who died fighting terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir, Major Mukund Varadarajan and Naik Neeraj Kumar.

• Ashok Chakra for Andhra Pradesh's braveheart cop, who died fighting Maoists

  President Pranab Mukherjee today conferred the Ashok Chakra, the highest peacetime gallantry award, to Sub-Inspector K Prasad Babu on India's 65th Republic Day

• Republic Day: Ashok Chakra for braveheart cop who died fighting Maoists

  President Pranab Mukherjee today conferred Ashok Chakra, the highest peacetime gallantry award, to Sub-Inspector K Prasad Babu of Andhra Pradesh's counter-Maoist force as India celebrated its 65th Republic Day today.

• Andhra Pradesh cop to get Ashok Chakra posthumously

  Sub-inspector Prasad Babu of Andhra Pradesh's anti-Maoist force was posthumously named for the country's highest peacetime gallantry award Ashok Chakra.