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Kargil Vijay Diwas (lit. ' Kargil Victory Day ') is celebrated every year on 26 of July in India, to observe India's victory over Pakistan in the Kargil War for ousting Pakistani Forces from their occupied positions on the mountain tops of Northern Kargil District in Ladakh in 1999. Initially, the Pakistani army denied their involvement in the ...
Kargil War Part of the Kashmir conflict and the India–Pakistan conflict Top, bottom: Indian soldiers after capturing a hill from Pakistani forces Pakistani soldiers posing with the wing of a downed Indian MiG Date 3 May – 26 July 1999 (2 months, 3 weeks and 2 days) Location Kargil district, Jammu and Kashmir (now Ladakh), India Result Indian victory India regains possession of Kargil ...
Captain Vikram Batra pronunciation ⓘ, PVC (9 September 1974 – 7 July 1999) was an Indian Army officer.He was posthumously awarded the Param Vir Chakra, the highest Indian military decoration, for his actions during the Kargil War; on 7 July 1999, Batra was killed while fighting Pakistani troops around Area Ledge, Point 4875, in the Kargil district of erstwhile Jammu and Kashmir.
The Captain Manoj Pandey Stadium is a sports arena located at village Garkon, Aryan Valley Batalik Sector in the Kargil district of India. The stadium is dedicated to the memory of Captain Manoj Kumar Pandey , an Indian Army officer who was posthumously awarded the Param Vir Chakra , the highest military honour in India , for his bravery during ...
Vijay Diwas (India), celebrated on 16 December for the same reason as Victory Day in Bangladesh; ... Operation Vijay (disambiguation) Kargil Vijay Diwas, ...
Kargil War Memorial. On the background is the name of soldiers who died during the battle, and a memorial for them in the front. The Kargil War Memorial, also known as Dras War Memorial, is a war memorial built by the Indian Army in the town of Dras, near Kargil city in Kargil district of Ladakh, India, commemorating the 1999 Kargil War between India and Pakistan. [1]
The Battle of Tiger Hill encompasses the battles fought in and around the peak of Tiger Hill between the Indian Army and Pakistan from the final week of May till second week of June 1999, during the Kargil War. The battle, with the concomitant battle for the adjoining peak of Tololing, culminated in Indian forces capturing Tiger Hill (Point ...
The Bollywood film LOC Kargil (2003) gives an account of all of the PVC recipients from the Kargil War. Lieutenant Manoj Kumar Pandey is played by Ajay Devgan, Subedar Yogendra Singh Yadav is played by Manoj Bajpayee, Naib Subedar Sanjay Kumar is played by Sunil Shetty, and Captain Vikram Batra is played by Abhishek Bachchan. [56]