Gallantry awards are prestigious honours given to recognise acts of bravery, courage, and exceptional valour in the face of danger. These awards are presented to members of the armed forces, police, and other paramilitary forces for their acts of heroism.
On the eve of Independence Day, President Droupadi Murmu has approved Gallantry awards for personnel across various services. These awards recognize acts of bravery and exceptional service. Here are the details of the recipients.
The defence decorations also included eight Bar to Sena Medals (devotion to duty), 38 Sena Medals (devotion to duty), 10 Nao Sena Medals, 14 Vayu Sena Medals, five Bar to Vishisht Seva Medal and 130 Vishisht Seva Medals.
A total of 1,132 personnel of police, fire service, home guard and civil defence and correctional service have been awarded gallantry and service medals on the occasion of the Republic Day, 2024.
The Central government has merged four existing President's Gallantry Medals into one medal namely "President’s Medal for Gallantry" with immediate effect.
Kirti Chakra and Shaurya Chakra are India's second-highest and third-highest peacetime gallantry awards after the Ashok Chakra.
Republic Day 2023: Police Medal for Gallantry (PMG) will be awarded to 140 personnel while President's Police Medal for Distinguished Service (PPM) will be conferred on 93 personnel. The Police Medal for Meritorious Service (PM) will be awarded to 668 Police personnel.
Independence Day 2022: The maximum gallantry medals at 109 have been received by the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) followed by 108 to the J&K Police, 19 to the Border Security Force (BSF) and six each to the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) and Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB).
President Ram Nath Kovind Presented the Gallantry Awards and Distinguished Service Decorations at the Rashtrapati Bhawan.
Among the 189 gallantry awards, 134 personnel are being awarded for their gallant action in Jammu and Kashmir region.
Colonel Santosh Babu's wife B Santoshi and mother Manjula received the award at a ceremony attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and the top military brass of the country.
President Ram Nath Kovind on Monday conferred the Vir Chakra gallantry award to Indian Air Force ace pilot Group Captain Abhinandan Varthaman for shooting down a Pakistani F-16 fighter aircraft on February 27, 2019.
The President's Police Medal is a decoration awarded to the Police personnel in India. Established on March 1, 1951, the medal was originally called the President's Police and Fire Service Medal.
A total of 15 Indian Army officers and soldiers will be awarded the Sena Medal, five of them posthumously, on Army Day on Friday for gallantry during counter-terror operations in Jammu & Kashmir.
August 15 is our independence day. The day is to remember our freedom fighters who fought till the end to free our country from the clutches of the British. It is also the day to honour our bravehearts, the soldiers who gambled even their lives to ensure that the enemy does not enter our territory.
Jammu and Kashmir police’s Deputy Inspector General Atul Kumar Goel, who broke a police-terrorist nexus by arresting now-suspended DSP Davinder Singh, is among 81 personnel of the force who have been awarded police medals for gallantry.
The Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) has recommended the names of at least 21 of its men for gallantry medals that faced the Chinese during faceoffs and skirmishes in Galwan Valley in Eastern Ladakh in May-June.
The Jammu and Kashmir administration on Wednesday "forfeited" the Sher-e-Kashmir Police Medal for Gallantry awarded to Deputy Superintendent of Police Davinder Singh, who has been arrested for helping terrorists travel out of JK, an official order said.
Abhinandan is the only pilot in the world to have shot down an F-16 combat aircraft from his vintage MiG-21 Bison aircraft on February 27 during aerial conflict with Pakistan.
As per existing norm, the payment of the allowance is continued to a widow until her death or if she re-marries, then the spouse has to be the late husband's brother.
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