India News: Personnel from Madras Sappers regiment of the Army’s Corps of Engineers were pressed into service on Sunday to clear the escape passage in the Silkyar
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As the General Officer Commanding-in-Chief of the Northern Command, Lt Gen PS Bhagat pushed for the connectivity atop Khardung La to achieve a road link not only with Partapur but also with Chalunka which was captured from Pakistan in the 1971 war.
Rani Lakshmibai, the heroic queen depicted in the Bollywood hit 'Manikarnika', became a folk hero when she took on the British East India Company in 1858