Ashok Chakra for 2 bravehearts

Ashok Chakra for 2 bravehearts
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India\'s highest peacetime gallantry award, the Ashoka Chakra, has been given posthumously to two soldiers who died fighting terrorists in Jammu & Kashmir - Major Mukund Varadarajan and Naik Neeraj Kumar. Major Varadarajan of the army\'s 44 Rashtriya Rifles died in April last year.

New Delhi: India's highest peacetime gallantry award, the Ashoka Chakra, has been given posthumously to two soldiers who died fighting terrorists in Jammu & Kashmir - Major Mukund Varadarajan and Naik Neeraj Kumar. Major Varadarajan of the army's 44 Rashtriya Rifles died in April last year. Naik Neeraj Kumar Singh, also from Rashtriya Rifles, was killed while he was leading a search operation at Kupwara in J&K in August.

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