Jaswant Singh Rawat was born on 19th August 1941 to Guman Singh Rawat in Pauri Garhwal, Uttarakhand. Rawat joined the Indian Army on 19th August 1960, aged 19 years, as a Rifleman. On 17th November 1962, when the troops of Garhwal Rifles had been ordered to retreat from the Battle of Nuranang (Sino-Indian War), Rawat refused to budge and desert his post. It was the final phase of the war, which had in any other case fared poorly for the Indian Army because the Indian troops started to fray from a scarcity of manpower and ammunition. So when the Chinese attacked that morning from the Sela top, they did now no longer assume to come upon the daredevilry and uncommon braveness of a younger Indian soldier to come in their way and ruin their larger plans. The attack, which began out in the morning on seventeenth November, went on for the next 72 hours. At one point, when the Chinese came too close to his company with an MMG, Jaswant determined to make the final sacrifice and went ahead...
India's first indigenous aircraft carrier (IAC) Vikrant, the largest warship to be built in the country , has completed its crucial sea trials and is scheduled to enter the services in less than a year. The carrier is named after INS Vikrant, India's first aircraft carrier which was decommissioned in 1997. Many experts believe that an aircraft carrier is necessary for a navy as well as a nation to be capable of projecting strength and power across the high seas. Since the carrier is a valuable and sometimes vulnerable target, it is usually escorted into the group by destroyers, missile cruisers, frigates, submarines, and supply ships. As of now, only five or six nations have the capability to build an aircraft carrier and India is now joining this elite club. Experts and naval officials said India has demonstrated the ability and self-reliance to build one of the most advanced and complex battleships in the world. The previous aircraft carriers in India were built by the Br...