Having been colonised by the Portuguese in 1510 and governed by Lisbon as ‘Estado da India’; Goa, Daman, Diu, Dadra and Nagar Haveli remained under colonial occupation for 451 years.
The Indian Air Forcehelicopter that crashedon Wednesday with Chief of Defence StaffGeneral Bipin Rawatand others on board belonged to the 109 Helicopter Unit based out of Sulur air base in Tamil Nadu
Indias first Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat 63 died along with his wife and 11 others when their IAF Mi17 crashed in Tamil Nadu on Wednesday