Shaurya Chakra

In March 1994, Colonel (Retd.) DPK Pillay, a Shaurya Chakra Awardee, saved the lives of two young kids during a gunfight with militants in Manipur’s Longdi Pabram village. But he didn’t stop at that, going on to uplift the village in several ways.

The 47-year-old Additional Commissioner of Income Tax of Mumbai is a Shaurya Chakra awardee, for his bravery in an encounter with terrorists along the LoC in 2017.

"I hope my efforts of raising awareness will have a bearing at a policy level, as a result of which the next of kin can acquire better benefits."

At the time of the incident, Pi Zadingi had also been three months pregnant with her second child, and her act of steely courage managed to save not two, but three lives!

M Kamal Naidu, the dedicated IFS officer whose service in naxal-infested areas earned him the Shaurya Chakra, passed away on Wednesday at the age of 79.

India's first IRS officer to be awarded the Shaurya Chakra, Captain Pradeep Arya showed immense courage to thwart an infiltration bid by terrorists in Kashmir.

Captain Singh had been almost given up for dead sixteen years ago. Yet, he hung on, fighting his injuries with a tenacity that is hard to imagine. Today he is the commander of Indian Navy's new MARCOS base, INS Karna.