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"The worst feeling is not being lonely, sometimes it is being forgotten by someone you can't forget": Forgotten legacy - Rakesh Sharma became the 1st Indian to orbit space in 1984, carrying out scientific experiment for the joint Indo-Soviet Space Mission
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Sharma made history on April 3, 1984, when he piloted Soyuz T-11 to the space station Salyut 7 alongside two Soviet cosmonauts, commander Yury Malyshev and flight engineer Gennady Strekalov
“Only the best of friends and the worst of enemies visit us”: Maj. Kuldeep Singh Chandpuri led the Battle of Longewala in 1971 with 120 soldiers successfully defending an isolated post that was attacked by 4000 troops and 45 tanks of the Pakistan Army
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Attack cost Pakistan 34 tanks, a total of 500 vehicles destroyed, and 200 (approximately) jawans in just two days
“This will remain the land of the free so long as it is the home of the brave”: 21-years-old Rifleman Jaswant Singh Rawat martyred in the Indo-China war, held his post for 72 hours and single-handedly killed 300 Chinese soldiers to save Arunachal Pradesh
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Rifleman Jaswant Singh Rawat single-handedly held off hundreds of Chinese soldiers for three days in the icy heights of Arunachal Pradesh during the 1962 war between India and China
"The most potent weapon of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed": New weapon system branch with sub-streams — flying, remote, intelligence and surface, women Agniveers, new combat uniform for IAF personnel launched at the Air Force Day parade
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Chief of Air Staff Air Chief Marshal VR Chaudhari said the Centre has approved a new weapon system branch for the Indian Air Force (IAF). Speaking on 90th Air Force Day, the IAF chief said they plan to induct women Agniveers from next year
"Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly?" In a major boost to Atmanirbhar Bharat initiative, IAF inducted made-in-India Light Combat Helicopters, after Dhruv & Rudra, it is officially named Prachand, capable of firing a range of missiles
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The Light Combat Helicopter Limited Series Production is an indigenously designed, developed and manufactured state-of-the-art modern combat helicopter
“What is a lifetime adventure for you is a daily routine for us”: History-making - More than 20000 Kashmiri youths participated in Army’s first Agniveer recruitment rally in valley, notwithstanding a plan of sabotage by the terrorists of Jaish-e-Mohammad
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Around 35,000 aspirants had submitted their applications from the ten districts in Kashmir and two districts of the Union territory of Ladakh
"Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power": Narendra Modi Govt announced Lieutenant General Anil Chauhan as India’s Chief of Defence Staff with extensive experience in counter-insurgency operations in J&K, North-East & against China
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The Indian government appointed a new Chief of Defence Staff on Wednesday, months after the post fell vacant as General Bipin Rawat, who was the country's first CDS, died in a helicopter crash in December 2021
"If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots": Indian and Chinese troops began disengaging in a coordinated and planned way at Patrolling Pillar (15) in the Gogra-Hotspring region of Eastern Ladakh to maintain peace
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Indian and Chinese troops have begun disengaging at Patrolling Pillar (15) in the Gogra-Hotspring region of Eastern Ladakh, the government said
“We’re going to bomb them back into the Stone Age”: As Global power dynamics are generating a situation of Cold War 2, IAF gets terrific for Indians and terrifying for India’s foes with offensive & defensive strike-capable equipment for future wars
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What we are witnessing today, and the war in Ukraine provides us some lessons, is that the nature of warfare is changing. Now wars are of blended nature
“Anything worth doing is worth overdoing. Moderation is for cowards”: PM Modi commissions INS Vikrant, India’s first indigenous aircraft carrier that has mix of 30 aircraft, could fly MiG 29k fighter aircraft in anti-air, anti-surface and land attack role
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Vikrant has been built with a high degree of automation for machinery operation, ship navigation and survivability, and has been designed to accommodate an assortment of fixed-wing and rotary aircraft