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Updated Mar 03, 2021 | 20:35 IST The idea of the participation of jawans has been widely welcomed within the services. It is being seen, very simply, as a huge moment.  File photo  New Delhi: In a first since Independence, junior commissioned officers and jawans of the Indian armed forces will participate in the Combined Commanders Conference in the capital on March 4.  Such conferences have usually been restricted to senior generals, admirals and air marshals, but this year about 20 Other Ranks, comprising JCOs and jawans -- 6 to 8 from the army, Navy and Air ...

6025 1 Lance Naik Albert Ekka’s bust at Param Yodha Sthal, National War Memorial, New Delhi. Tribune photo: Mukesh Aggarwal Strap: Lance Naik of 14 Guards was posthumously awarded PVC for exploits in battle of Ganga Sagar Lt Col Dilbag Singh Dabas, Gunner Veteran It was during the season of the traditional song, dance and feasting at tribal village Zari in Ranchi district of Chota Nagpur (now Gumla district of Jharkhand) that a son was born to Mariam and Julius Ekka on December 27, 1942. Ekkas, the devout Christian couple, named the child Albert. Like most Adivasis, Albert was at ease...

8771 Lt Col Dilbag Singh Dabas (Retd) Col Hoshiar Singh, PVC, undoubtedly, is a shining jewel in 3rd Grenadiers’ crown but old-timers from 2nd Jat Battalion too claim him as theirs, and rightly so; they fondly refer to him as “Mhara Hoshiare”. Maj Hoshiar Singh being awarded the Param Vir Chakra by President VV Giri. Son of Ch Hira Singh Dahiya, Hoshiar Singh was born on May 5, 1936, at Sisana village in Rohtak district of undivided Punjab. Sisana is now in Sonepat. After matriculation from Jat Heroes Memorial High School, Rohtak, and first year at Jat College, also in Rohtak, he was en...

8771 Lt Col Dilbag Singh Dabas (Retd) Col Hoshiar Singh, PVC, undoubtedly, is a shining jewel in 3rd Grenadiers’ crown but old-timers from 2nd Jat Battalion too claim him as theirs, and rightly so; they fondly refer to him as “Mhara Hoshiare”. Maj Hoshiar Singh being awarded the Param Vir Chakra by President VV Giri. Son of Ch Hira Singh Dahiya, Hoshiar Singh was born on May 5, 1936, at Sisana village in Rohtak district of undivided Punjab. Sisana is now in Sonepat. After matriculation from Jat Heroes Memorial High School, Rohtak, and first year at Jat College, also in Rohtak, he was en...

»Not '100 Per Cent Satisfied' with Mahavir Chakra Awarded to Son, Says Galwan Hero Col Babu's Father 1-MIN READ Not '100 Per Cent Satisfied' with Mahavir Chakra Awarded to Son, Says Galwan Hero Col Babu's Father Col Babu, the commanding officer of the 16 Bihar regiment, was among 20 Indian soldiers who laid down their lives in the fierce hand-to-hand combat on June 15 in the Galwan Valley. Colonel Babu, the commanding officer of the 16 Bihar regiment, was among 20 Indian soldiers who laid down their lives in the fierce hand-to-hand combat on June 15 last year in the Galwan Valley, an inciden...