Param Vishisht Seva Medal (PVSM)
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Ati Vishisht Seva Medal (AVSM) with Bar
Samanya Seva Medal (SM)
Uttam Yudh Seva Medal (UYSM) & Yudh Seva Medal (YSM)
Vishisht Seva Medal (VSM)
Special Service Medals
Indian Operation Vijay Star
Operation Parakram Medal
India High Altitude Service Medal
Videsh Seva Medal
India 50th Anniversary Independence Medal
Indian 30 Years Long Service Medal
Indian 20 Years Long Service Medal
Indian 9 Years Long Service Medal
UN UNAVEM medal
GENERAL’S JOTTINGS-TOI
Covid-19: Time to enhance social capital through voluntary compliance
Last year, while explaining national security challenges at the Indian Institute of Management, it was difficult to convince participants about pandemics as an emerging crisis. Two...
Covid-19: Can we achieve with 1% what Italy couldn’t with 9%?
The world is in the mid of a war against Covid-19. Prime Minister Narendra Modi called it a more significant crisis than the two World Wars, while President Trump talked about “our...
Create supporting structures, agendas for CDS without hype
Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) is indeed the most significant reform of department of military affairs (DMA) and, with tweaking, has the potential to become enabling catalyst for tra...
Now it’s up to Army to create gender-neutral standards
This Women’s Day, women in the Indian Army must feel special. They have fought a long battle in the courts for gender equality and won. The government counsel, while opposing perma...
Endangered eco-system of armed forces
Armed Forces have traditionally maintained a relatively cocooned eco-system, often criticised for opacity. Unfortunately, this trend is now reversed due to probing scrutiny by all...
NE is a geographical riddle with enigmatic insurgencies
The famous explanation of Winston Churchill that “China is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma”, applies in some measure to understanding of North East (NE) among most...
Gender cannot and should not be an automatic disqualification
Earlier this week, the Supreme Court heard arguments in a case for grant of commanding officers’ posts to women officers in the army. In a written note submitted to the court, the...
Military lit fest: Trick lies in finding the optimum balance
Winter is the season of literary festivals, with recently concluded Jaipur Festival leading the pack. Book fairs morphed into book festivals, writers’ conferences and now, literary...
Normalcy is when a common man can go about his life
Since August 5 last year, Jammu and Kashmir has continued to be in the news. The decision to revoke the special status of the state met with widespread approval of the citizens of...
State of strategic preparedness: Need to reconsider approach
January with Republic and Army Day parades is indeed the most appropriate month to take stock of security preparedness. Unfortunately, despite heightened, albeit largely emotive an...
Indian government will have to walk a diplomatic tightrope
As we move into a new year and a new decade, it is an opportune time to take stock of the security challenges that confront India in the times ahead. It is now a well-accepted…
CDS (1.0): Welcome & evolutionary initiative in defence reforms
Appointment of CDS, though much belated, is welcome reality and Government needs to be complimented for giving shape to defining reform. Armed Forces have been elevated from attach...
Time to stop playing with acronyms and create vibrant eco system in North East
Christmas and the run up to it, with string of cultural festivals like Hornbill in Nagaland and Sangai in Manipur, is opportune time to be in the North East (NE). There was a very...
Wading through uncharted territory of cyber warfare
Each year the US intelligence community under the office of director of National Intelligence prepares a ‘Worldwide Threat Assessment’ to be presented to Congress. Since 2013, this...
Parochialism in Army cannot be tackled by tokenism, but change of mindset
Army has persistent malady, which, for want of officially designated terminology, can best be described as ‘tinkering syndrome’. It is primarily triggered by tendency of chasing le...
The ‘fasaadi’ overtones of Pak’s religious diplomacy
Religion and theology, though used in an interchangeable manner, are seldom analysed for their nuances. The religion (dharma) is more about practices of a particular faith, while t...
Corridor symbolises reverence, aspirations and apprehensions
It is a bit of incongruity (mercifully glossed over) that the focus of 550th birth anniversary celebrations are two abodes of Guru Nanak, Kartarpur in Pakistan and Sultanpur Lodhi...
Govt must make people, local or immigrant, feel safe in Kashmir
On October 29, armed terrorists pulled out six labourers from their house in Kulgam district and shot five of them dead, the sixth was lucky to survive despite two gunshot wounds....
Naga peace process flounders yet again
Light at the end of long and seemingly endless tunnel has faded, yet again, primarily due to obstinacy of the main stumbling block, Naga Socialist Council of Nagaland (Issac-Muivar...
Syria shows us global war on terror is a myth
On October 6, the White House released a statement informing that “Turkey will soon be moving forward with its long-planned operation into northern Syria. The United States Armed F...
