The 77th Independence Day on Tuesday was a low-key affair in Himachal Pradesh with the traditional cultural programmes missing from official and district-level functions as the state mourns the deaths and destruction caused by incessant rains.
Rich tributes were on Saturday paid to the 26/11 martyrs on the third anniversary of the Mumbai terror attacks by Maharashtra Governor K Sankaranarayanan, Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan and a host of other leaders.
Kabir was seen clinging to the tricolour-wrapped coffin of his father. He bowed before his father's body just before cremation.
A group of journalism students have jointly written a book on the 18 martyrs of the 26/11 attacks, titled '26/11, Eighteen', as a tribute to the sacrifice made by the 18 officers of different security agencies to save other lives during the 60-hour carnage.
The chief minister said that it was indeed a mistake and assured that it will not be repeated after Leader of Opposition Ramvir Singh Bidhuri raised the matter in the Delhi assembly.
The dead body of Army soldier Rahul Kumar of 23 GDR Battalion, martyred in the Kupwara encounter on Saturday night, was on Tuesday brought back to his native village Bulandhshahr in Uttar Pradesh.
"I am proud of my husband. He laid down his life for the country," says Mandeep Kaur, wife of Naik Mandeep Singh, who was among the five soldiers killed in a fierce gunfight with terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir's Poonch district on Monday.
Family members praised the government, saying it was a revenge taken by the armed forces for the martyrdom of soldiers in the Pulwama terror attack.
Teary eyed but proud family members of the martyrs who laid down their lives on the icy heights of Kargil ten years ago came together on Sunday during a visit to the area where their loved ones made the supreme sacrifice. On July 26, 1999 the Indian armed forces broke the back of a Pakistani misadventure in the forbidden heights of Batalik, Kargil and Drass sectors after a 59-day war.
In heart-wrenching scenes reminiscent of the aftermath of the 2019 Pulwama terror attack in which 40 CRPF personnel were killed, coffins of soldiers arrived in several states for the last rites with full military honours.
In a case of abject apathy towards the kin of a martyred soldier, the Chhattisgarh police demanded the return of Rs 10,000 it has provided to the family of a martyred special police officer for his last rites.
Raising social security pension amounts, increasing financial assistance given under the 'Rythu Bandhu' investment support scheme for farmers and providing LPG cylinders at Rs 400 each are some of the promises made by the ruling Bharat Rashtra Samiti for the upcoming assembly elections in Telangana.
The Indian Army and Indian Air Force pay tribute to the Kargil martyrs on Kargil Vijay Diwas in Kargil.
The bodies of the four soldiers of Bihar regiment, who were killed after "heavily armed terrorists" ambushed an Indian army patrol along the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday, arrived in Patna on Wednesday night. Their funeral will take place at their respective villages on Thursday, a police official said.
Shinde and Pawar paid homage to the heroes at the Police Gymkhana in Marine Lines where a 26/11 memorial has been erected in remembrance of the policemen, who lost their lives fighting terrorists during the dastardly strikes.
Dominic Xavier pays homage to the 20 brave Indian soldiers who were brutally murdered by the Chinese People's Liberation Army in Ladakh's Galwan Valley on the night of June 15, 2020.
Shakuntala Devi, wife of Naik Chaman Singh who laid down his life at Torling Peak, was promised land to construct a petrol pump.
Curfew-like-restrictions were imposed on Tuesday in Jammu and Kashmir's summer capital Srinagar and other towns to scuttle the separatist called marches.
Throughout 2022, China turned to the PLA as an increasingly capable instrument of Statecraft, strengthening its ability to 'fight and win wars' against a 'strong enemy', points out Ajai Shukla.
Sagar's son had said that the last rites of his father would not be performed until the chief minister arrives at their hometown in Deoria.
Xi Jinping at a ceremony to mark Martyrs' Day at Tiananmen Square, September 30, 2022.
Chief of Maharashtra Navnirman Sena Raj Thackeray, along with the 13 party members who were elected to the Maharashtra legislative assembly, plays floral tribute at the Hutatma Chowk in Churchgate on Monday.
Pay homage to the soldiers who lost their lives in the Siachen avalanche
"I congratulate all Indian citizens on the occasion of Kargil Vijay Diwas. The sacrifices made by soldiers, which helped us win the Kargil war, will always be a source of inspiration for the armed forces," Rajnath Singh told reporters after paying the tributes.
According to officials in the chief judicial magistrate's court in Chapra, Vinita Kamte met the judge, Peush Srivastava, and requested him to release the thief as she had pardoned him
K Unnikrishnan, father of 26/11 martyr National Security Guard commando Major Sandeep Unnikrishnan, will embark on a unique bicycle journey from India Gate in New Delhi to the Gateway of India in Mumbai in memory of those who lost their lives during the horrific terror attacks.
The defence minister also said India is moving quickly from being the world's largest importer of defence equipment to an exporter.
The India men's hockey team post their victorious return from Commonwealth Games 2022 visited the National War Memorial in New Delhi on Thursday, to express their gratitude to the brave martyred soldiers of the nation.
The Assam government and the Indian Army have paid homage to the martyrs of 1894 farmers' rising at Patharughat in Darrang district of Assam, who had made supreme sacrifice while protesting against the brutalities and oppressive rule of the British in January 1894.
Wreaths were laid on the body of SP (Detective) Baljit Singh by politicians, top police officers, besides family and common people.
His body will be taken to his native village in Kerala's Palakkad district later in the day for cremation.
Maharaja Hari Singh requested military assistance from the government of India, paving the way for induction of Indian troops in Jammu and Kashmir.
Two Central Reserve Police Force personnel, including an officer, were killed in a militant attack in Sangam area of Anantnag district in Jammu & Kashmir.
The martyr's father Udham Singh said he was proud of his son, but wanted that Pakistan be given a befitting reply.
While the rest of India remembers the 26/11 victims and martyrs today, for Major Unnikrishnan's parents, life would never be the same again."Not a single day passes when we don't think about him," says K Unnikrishnan, father of Major Unnikrishnan.
"On martyrdom day, I pay my respects to Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev and Rajguru who sacrificed their life for the nation," PM said in a statement.
An Army colonel commanding a battalion, a major and a Jammu and Kashmir deputy superintendent of police were killed in a gunfight with terrorists in the higher reaches of Kokorenag area in the valley while one soldier was missing, officials said on Wednesday.
Amid the raging Israel-Hamas war, a group of opposition leaders, including MP Danish Ali and former parliamentarians Mani Shankar Aiyar and K C Tyagi, visited the Palestine Embassy in New Delhi on Monday to express solidarity with Palestinians.
Indian troops guarding the border, retaliated resulting in exchanges.
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