This year, the DRDO Awards were jointly conducted for the years 2016 and 2017 and were presented by defence minister Nirmala Sitharaman in New Delhi on May 14, on the occasion of National Technology Day.
Here's the story of Havildar Abdul Hamid, a soldier whose act of extraordinary courage and sacrifice was responsible for giving the Indian army a crucial edge in the Indo-Pak War of 1965.