The Ashoka Chakra (alternative spelling: Ashok Chakra, lit. 'Wheel of Ashoka') is India's highest peacetime military decoration awarded for valor, courageous...
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posthumously conferred the highest peacetime gallantry award of India Ashoka Chakra by President of India on the 63rd Republic Day. Born in Gurdaspur, Singh...
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Mukund Varadarajan (category Recipients of the Ashoka Chakra (military decoration))
recipient of the Ashoka Chakra. Mukund, a commissioned officer in the Indian Army's Rajput Regiment, was posthumously awarded the Ashok Chakra for his actions...
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Rajesh Kumar (soldier) (category Recipients of the Ashoka Chakra (military decoration))
Officer (NCO) of Indian Army who was awarded India's highest military decoration Ashoka Chakra. Rajesh Kumar was born in the village of Lath near Bhainswal...
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The Kirti Chakra (lit. 'Wheel of Glory') is an Indian military decoration awarded for valour, courageous action or self-sacrifice away from the field...
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Regiment. He was posthumously awarded India's highest peace time military decoration Ashoka Chakra. Subedar Surinder Singh was a soldier of Sikh Regiment of...
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Nazir Ahmad Wani (category Recipients of the Ashoka Chakra (military decoration))
an Indian Army soldier and a recipient of the Ashoka Chakra, India's highest peacetime military decoration. At the time of his death, he was serving with...
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Ram Prakash Roperia (category Recipients of the Ashoka Chakra (military decoration))
Indian Army officer who was awarded India's highest peace time military decoration Ashoka Chakra for his gallant act in Operation Blue Star. Lieutenant Ram...
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Vasanth Venugopal (category Recipients of the Ashoka Chakra (military decoration))
Kashmir. As a result he was posthumously awarded the Ashoka Chakra, India's highest military decoration for peacetime gallantry. Born to Praphulla and N.K...
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Dinesh Raghu Raman (category Recipients of the Ashoka Chakra (military decoration))
military officer with the 19th Battalion of the Jat Regiment who was posthumously awarded India's highest peacetime military decoration Ashoka Chakra...
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Mohit Sharma (soldier) (category Recipients of the Ashoka Chakra (military decoration))
Army Officer who was posthumously awarded the Ashoka Chakra, India's highest peace-time military decoration. Maj Sharma was from the elite 1st Para SF....
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Neeraj Kumar Singh (category Recipients of the Ashoka Chakra (military decoration))
Army who was posthumously awarded the Ashok Chakra, the country’s highest peacetime military decoration on 26 January 2015. He had enlisted in the 13th...
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The Shaurya Chakra (lit. 'Wheel of Gallantry') is an Indian military decoration awarded for valour, courageous action or self-sacrifice while not engaged...
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D. Sreeram Kumar (category Recipients of the Ashoka Chakra (military decoration))
officer who was decorated in 2010 with the Ashoka Chakra, India's highest peacetime gallantry decoration. Sreeram Kumar was born in Kovilpatti and did...
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Sanjog Chhetri (category Recipients of the Ashoka Chakra (military decoration))
and a recipient of the Ashoka Chakra, India's highest peace time military decoration.He was posthumously awarded the Ashoka Chakra for his actions during...
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Mohan Nath Goswami (category Recipients of the Ashoka Chakra (military decoration))
Indian Army. He was posthumously awarded the Ashoka Chakra, India's highest peacetime military decoration. On 3 September 2015, while serving with the...
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Sandeep Unnikrishnan (category Recipients of the Ashoka Chakra (military decoration))
during the November 2008 Mumbai attacks and was posthumously awarded the Ashoka Chakra, India's highest peacetime gallantry award, on 26 January 2009. Maj...
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Hangpan Dada (category Recipients of the Ashoka Chakra (military decoration))
Indian Army. He was posthumously awarded the Ashoka Chakra, India's highest peacetime military decoration in August 2016. Dada was born in Borduria village...
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Jyoti Prakash Nirala (category Recipients of the Ashoka Chakra (military decoration))
Commando Force. He was posthumously awarded the Ashoka Chakra, India's highest peacetime military decoration in January 2018. He is the first airman to receive...
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Pollur Mutthuswamy Raman (category Recipients of the Ashoka Chakra (military decoration))
officer who was posthumously awarded India's highest peace time military decoration Ashoka Chakra for his gallant act in Nagaland. Second Lieutenant Pollur...
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Mohan Chand Sharma (category Recipients of the Ashoka Chakra (military decoration))
posthumously awarded the Gallantry medal Ashoka Chakra Award, India's highest peacetime military decoration, on 26 January 2009. Sharma, a Kumaoni, was...
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Tukaram Omble (category Recipients of the Ashoka Chakra (military decoration))
posthumously honoured Omble on 26 January 2009 with the Ashoka Chakra, the country's highest peacetime military award. Omble joined the Mumbai police as a constable...
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Cyrus Addie Pithawalla (category Recipients of the Ashoka Chakra (military decoration))
of the Indian Armed Forces (the Ashoka Chakra ranks above all other Indian decorations excepting the Param Vir Chakra, its wartime equivalent, and the...
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Babu Ram (category Recipients of the Ashoka Chakra (military decoration))
Chakra". Hindustan Times. 14 August 2021. Retrieved 21 August 2021. "ASI in JK Police Babu Ram gets India's highest peacetime gallantry award Ashoka Chakra"...
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Jojan Thomas (category Recipients of the Ashoka Chakra (military decoration))
his bravery, he was posthumously awarded the Ashoka Chakra, the highest peace time military decoration in India. Colonel Jojan Thomas was born on 22...
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Suhas Biswas (category Recipients of the Ashoka Chakra (military decoration))
of all the passengers. Biswas was awarded the Ashoka Chakra, India's highest peacetime military decoration. Biswas died in a crash on 1 September 1957 in...
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Jagannath Raoji Chitnis (category Recipients of the Ashoka Chakra (military decoration))
Rifles who was posthumously awarded India's highest peacetime military decoration Ashoka Chakra. Lieutenant Colonel Jagannath Raoji Chitnis was born on 20...
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Rakesh Sharma (category Recipients of the Ashoka Chakra (military decoration))
award, the 'Ashoka Chakra', on him and the two Soviet members of his mission, Malyshev and Strekalov. The citation for the Ashoka Chakra reads as follows:...
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K. Prasad Babu (category Recipients of the Ashoka Chakra (military decoration))
the Andhra Pradesh Police. In 2013 he was posthumously awarded the Ashoka Chakra, India's highest peacetime gallantry award, after he played a vital...
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Havildar Joginder Singh (category Recipients of the Ashoka Chakra (military decoration))
Officer (NCO) who was awarded India's highest peace time military decoration Ashoka Chakra for gallantry in Nagaland. Havildar Joginder Singh was born...
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