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The Ashoka Chakra (alternative spelling: Ashok Chakra, lit. ' Wheel of Ashoka ' ) is India's highest peacetime military decoration awarded for valor, courageous action, or self-sacrifice away from the battlefield.
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The Ashoka Chakra (Transl: Ashoka's wheel) is an Indian symbol which is a depiction of the dharmachakra (English: "wheel of dharma"). It is so-called because it appears on a number of edicts of Ashoka the Great , [ 1 ] most prominent among which is the Lion Capital of Ashoka . [ 2 ]
He was posthumously awarded the Ashoka Chakra, India's highest peacetime military decoration in January 2018. He is the first airman to receive the award for ground combat and only the third one to receive it overall after Suhas Biswas and Rakesh Sharma. [2] [3] [4]
Major Mukund Varadarajan AC (12 April 1983 – 25 April 2014) was an Indian Army officer and a recipient of the Ashoka Chakra.Mukund, a commissioned officer in the Indian Army's Rajput Regiment, was posthumously awarded the Ashok Chakra for his actions during a counterterrorism operation while on deputation to the 44th Rashtriya Rifles battalion in Jammu and Kashmir.
On 26 January 2019 on Republic Day, President Ram Nath Kovind posthumously awarded the Ashoka Chakra to Nazir Ahmad Wani. The award was accepted by his wife Mahajabeen at an official ceremony during the Delhi Republic Day parade. [20] He was the first recipient of the Ashok Chakra award from the Kashmir region of the Indian state of Jammu and ...
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Awards Ashoka Chakra Second Lieutenant Pollur Mutthuswamy Raman , AC (4 December 1934 - 3 June 1956) was an Indian Army officer who was posthumously awarded India's highest peace time military decoration Ashoka Chakra for his gallant act in Nagaland .