Let's salute to our Indian Army together, We are proud to be Indian.

Air Chief Marshal Pratap Chandra Lal (6 December 1916 – August 1982) was the Chief of Air Staff (India) of the Indian Air Force during the Indo-Pakistan War of 1971. He served in the IAF from 1939 until his retirement in 1973. He was the CO of No. 7 Squadron, AOC-in-C of Western Command, Vice…

Captain Manmohan Singh Kohli (b. 11 December 1931 at Haripur) is an internationally renowned Indian mountaineer. An officer in the Indian Navy who joined the Indo-Tibetan Border Police, he led the 1965 Indian expedition which put nine men on the…

Shantanurao Laxmanrao Kirloskar (28 May 1903 – 24 April 1994) was an Indian businessman of Maharashtrian Karade Brahmin family. He was instrumental behind the rapid growth of the Kirloskar Group. Kirloskar was the son of Laxmanrao Kirloskar, who established the…

Nawab Akbar Ali Khan (20 November 1899 – 1994) was governor of Uttar Pradesh in India from 1972 to 1974 and governor of Odisha from 25 October 1974 to 17 April 1976.He was a member of the Rajya Sabha for…

Kashmir Singh Katoch (born 15 July 1915) is an Indian army officer and a former military adviser to the Maharaja Hari Singh of Jammu and Kashmir, officiating as the Chief of Staff of the State Forces during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947 Katoch was born in…

Sonam Gyatso (1923–1968) was an Indian mountaineer and the first person from Sikkim to summit Mount Everest, the highest peak in the world.He became the oldest person to scale the peak in 1965 and when he spent 50 minutes at…

Nawang Gombu (Nepali: नवांग गोम्बु; May 1, 1936 – April 24, 2011) was an Indian and Nepali mountaineer of Nepalese Sherpa origin. Gombu was born in Khumbu, Nepal, as did many of his relatives, including his uncle Tenzing Norgay. He…

Bhalchandra Babaji Dikshit (7 September 1902 - 1977) was an Indian physician and pharmacologist. He was the first director of AIIMS, New Delhi. He was awarded the Padma Bhushan, third highest civilian honour of India by the President of India,…

Lieutenant General Joginder Singh Dhillon (1914–2003) was the first post independence Sapper Army Commander (Central Army) and was a decorated and celebrated Indian and Sikh military war hero. Lt Gen Dhillon was the first Army Officer to be awarded the…

Ramkumar Verma (born 15 September 1905) was a leading Hindi poet who published one act-plays and several anthologies of his work. He was associated with the Allahabad University. He was born in the Sagar district of Madhya Pradesh on 15 September 1905.…