Republic Day Awards 2017
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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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Union Minister Sushma Swaraj's Doctor To Be Awarded Padma Shri
Dr Mukut Minz, who led the kidney transplant surgery on Union Minister Sushma Swaraj recently, was among four personalities from Odisha to be selected for the Padma Shri Awards.
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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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Union Minister Sushma Swaraj's Doctor To Be Awarded Padma Shri
Dr Mukut Minz, who led the kidney transplant surgery on Union Minister Sushma Swaraj recently, was among four personalities from Odisha to be selected for the Padma Shri Awards.
