Neerja Bhanot was senior flight purser on the Empress of the Seas, a Pan Am 747 hijacked at Jinnah International Airport in Karachi by four armed men from the Abu Nidal organization en route to Frankfurt and New York. During a 17-hour ordeal, she helped the three-member cockpit crew escape in...
The biggest reason is the inability of Pakistan to build a sense of nationhood. Bengalis (East Pakistan) went away first. Balochis want their freedom. Must be a domino effect in other regions.
Yogendra Singh Yadav
Param Vir Chakra Citation
Grenadier Yogendra Singh Yadav was part of the leading team of Ghatak Platoon tasked to capture Tiger Hill on the night of 3/4 July 1999. The approach to the top was steep, snow bound and rocky. Grenadier Yogendra Singh Yadav, unmindful of the...
The Param Vir Chakra is India's highest War Time gallantry award. The last time it was awarded was in 1999
The Ashok Chakra is India's highest Peace Time gallantry award.
This thread is about those that received the two highest gallantry awards. Feel free to add their achievements
True. But after a certain threshold, the size of the economy is no longer relevant. India is at that threshold where there is certainly no dearth of funds. Agreed about the lack of debate and no action over the past several decades.
As I said, inexperienced or not in high altitude warfare, they have the raw materials, money, processes and project management skills to plan, build and execute infrastructure projects along the borders faster than we can.
Don't reply to this thread since no place called IoK exists. There is only PoK and the Union Territory of Jammu & Kashmir. Would you respond to a claim about a fictional place like Narnia?
Recently Kashmiri athlete Arif Khan was the only one representing India in Winter Olympics at Beijing. China did not seem to have an issue with it. Earlier they used to staple visas or reject visas of Indian citizens from parts of India.
Is China finally accepting Kashmir as integral part of...
Sad
https://www.indiatoday.in/movies/story/lata-mangeshkar-s-death-govt-announces-2-days-national-mourning-1909347-2022-02-06
two days of national mourning in the memory of legendary singer Lata Mangeshkar. Known as the 'Nightingale of India', Lata Mangeshkar passed away at Candy Breach...