Ashok Chakra awards being presented

Mon, 26 January 2015

10:08

Flag unfurled, the national anthem plays on the Rajpath, the booming of the 21 gun salute in the background also begins.

The Ashok Chakra is being presented posthumously to Major Mukul Vararajan. His wife Indu Varadarajan receives the honour.

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