Lt. Navdeep Singh awarded Ashok Chakra posthumously
President Mrs Patil presented Ashok Chakra -the highest peacetime gallantry award posthumously to Lieutenant Navdeep Singh who died foiling an infiltration attempt by Pakistan-based terrorists along the LoC in Jammu and Kashmir.
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Sushil Khajuria: Jammu and Kashmir's Omar government ignores Lieutenant
But the family of martyred young army officer Lieutenant Sushil Khajuria – named a day earlier for Kirti Chakra, the second highest peacetime gallantry medal – was shattered. Not because they had lost him in the prime of his youth (he was only 26 years …
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Anti-Naxal ops: CRPF gets 'Shaurya Chakra' again
The central force, which has deployed more than 70000 troops for anti-naxal operations, has received a 'Shaurya Chakra' for the second consecutive time after its CoBRA commando Ashish Tiwary was decorated with the bravery medal last year.
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