Major Dhan Singh Thapa
Major Dhan Singh Thapa (April 10 1928 – September 6 2005) was an Indian Army major in 1st Battalion, 8th Gorkha Rifles Regiment. He was awarded the Param Vir Chakra, […]
Captain Gurbachan Singh Salaria
Captain Gurbachan Singh Salaria (born 29 November 1935; Gurdaspur, Punjab – 1961) is a military war hero, who was awarded the Param Vir Chakra, India’s highest wartime military award. Military […]
Company Havildar Major Piru Singh Shekhawat
Company Havildar Major Piru Singh Shekhawat (born 20 May 1918, Rampura Beri- Churu Rajputana, India) was a soldier in the British Indian Army. He died in service during the Indo-Pakistani […]
Naik Jadu Nath Singh
Naik Jadu Nath Singh, a Rathore Rajput, was born on 21 November 1916 in Shahjahanpur, Uttar Pradesh. He was enrolled in the 1 Rajput on 21 November 1941. During the […]
Rama Raghoba Rane
Second Lieutenant Rama Raghoba Rane, was born on 26 June 1918 at Chendia, Karwar, Karnataka, India. He comes from Konkan Maratha Community of Karwar. His statue has been erected in […]
Lance Naik Karam Singh
Lance Naik Karam Singh MM, a Sikh, was born on 15 September, 1915 in Barnala, Punjab . He is an Indian military war hero who was awarded the Param Vir […]
Major Som Nath Sharma
Major Som Nath Sharma (1923–1947) was the first recipient of the Param Vir Chakra[1], the highest Indian gallantry award. He was awarded the medal posthumously for his bravery in the […]
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan – Born in 1952, at Chidambaram, Tamilnadu. After his schooling at Vadodara & Colleging at Maharaja Sayajirao University, Vadodara, he moved to USA and obtained Ph.D. in Physics […]
Rajendra Kumar Pachauri
Rajendra Kumar Pachauri – Born on August 20, 1940 at Nainital and educated in Lucknow & Jamalpur. He started his career with Diesel Locomotive Work, Varanasi and had occupied various […]
Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul
Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul – Born on August 17, 1932 at Chaguanas, Trinidad. He is a British novelist and essayist of Indo-Trinidadian decent. He is widely considered to be one […]